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I’m sometimes very glad my psych has ADHD but sometimes she forgets to fill my prescriptions so…

I think the idea here is to have it offline in the event of further fascist control of the internet. There is really so much useful information on there on a wide variety of topics. I don’t care about backing up memes and bot drivel.

There is a ton of useful info on Reddit. I don’t use it anymore either but I’ll be downloading this project.

Both, plus the drug.

Yeah I have four cats and two of them are long haired. It’s too much for the roomba I tried.

I feel this so deeply. Friend or neighbor needs my help for hours? No problem. Work a crazy long day? No problem. Vacuum for fifteen minutes? Practically impossible.

It’s my favorite. I have a shirt that has the Russian edition cover on the whole front. Makes it even more ironic now.

I was tested for something or things in 3rd grade. My mom never told me what the diagnosis was. I was diagnosed at age 41 and my mom was dead so I never got to ask her.

She was afraid of how it would make her look, I imagine, because her rep was all she was concerned with.

I took two roughly a year ago. The first one was in a run down office. I came to fill out forms and do a written assessment. Then I came back and did a test with an aged beige box computer, very simple but I know I did poorly. Then I had an assessment of math, verbal, etc with a live person. I was called back a week later and answered more questions. I was told I couldn’t have ADD because my job was too demanding for a person with ADD to handle. My coworker was in the car and I did the whole thing on speakerphone because he is a good friend and I’m serious about being open and honest when it comes to mental health. I thought it was ridiculous and my friend agreed.

Then I looked online and found a service (you can DM me if you want the name) that could do an online assessment if you have a laptop or desktop with a camera. I filled out all my forms online and submitted them before initial assessment video call. It was clear that the psychiatrist had read what I wrote. I then took a test on my laptop, very simple still but made me realize how out of date the test on my first attempt was.

I had another video appointment a week later. My psychiatrist actually has ADHD herself. She said the computer test graded me at top 7% severity. I told her about my other mental illness issues and, this is very important, I told her how so much of my childhood would make sense if I had ADD. It is important to talk about childhood symptoms, because ADD is a lifelong neurodivergence, not an illness.

She diagnosed me with ADD. We tried Vyvanse, it’s slow release so I thought it would be better. It put me to sleep. I now take Adderall so I can fit into a box and be a normal productive member of society for about 10 or 12 hours. I still have serious executive dysfunction without an immediate deadline looming or some other exterior pressure. It’s better than it was though, that’s for sure.

This was my experience in WV, USA

Good Luck

And if you like the appendices you’ll love The Silmarillion.

And we would be the scouts and night watch for the community. If neurodivergence isn’t environmentally caused, and I don’t believe it is, why would it still be so common in our species?

If you’re in the US I can PM you the name of the service I used to get diagnosed. First attempt I was given what I later learned was a very outdated test, after which I was told “your job is too hard for someone with ADHD”.

Got mine less than a year ago at 41. My whole fucked up life makes sense.

Brother I know. I was diagnosed less than a year ago. Masking is exhausting and I do it automatically.

You are ok

As I’ve become older and been friends with many much older people, they generally take care to say something like “I really appreciated your help yesterday”.

I don’t know if it’s right or wrong, but they’re telling you they enjoyed the time/favor whatever.

And I’m a brash fucking asshole to meet.

Some of us have shit genetics. Yeah I’m 6 feet tall, strong as an ox, etc, but the mental issues that were handed to me I would never want to pass on. Both my parents died in their early 60s.

With the executive dysfunction I have combined with clinical depression and being short on work, most days I don’t even bother to take a shower.

I tell the people I work and worked for that I need external motivation and it’s worked out pretty well. Home life, my wife can sometimes be enough to motivate me. Not because she asks, but I want the house to be nice for her. If I lived alone it would be a mess.

Exactly what happened to me. I went for help with depression and anxiety. 3 years later, nothing really working, I find out I have severe ADHD at age 41. And my whole life made sense.

Came here to say this.