Why Coming Home Can Be Harder Than Moving Abroad: ADHD and Reverse Culture Shock

When my family and I moved from the United States to Germany, I thought I knew what I was coming back to. After all, I was (and still am) German. Germany was still home. I had spent around 25 years living in the United States, but I knew the language, understood the culture, had family here, and had returned countless times over the years. This wasn't like moving to Japan or arriving in the US for the first time. I was going home. Or so I thought.