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ADHD for me but yeh
I was diagnosed at 56 with ADHD and Autism. So many fuck ups of mine make sense now.
ADHD and Autism require diagnosis.
So…not me.
It’s not hard to get a test you just need to grow yourself a money tree.
I have money but its a 3 year wait if you can convince a GP to refer you… so that’s still fun.
I was able to convince my GP to get me a reference after my son was diagnosed. The diagnosis he got was for anything required from school. I got a waiting time of 10 years via the public system or 2 years via the private. My diagnosis could not entitle me for anything else than ‘better know myself’.
See if you could just focus on your personal needs you’d be able to convince your GP to refer you
Holy shit, 3 years?
My GP was doing a conference, her replacement was literally the person in the entire region in charge of this specific area.
She said “we could do tests, but it would only eventually come across my desk to give the final stamp. You don’t need that. You have ADHD”
I know I got lucky, but… Three years…
I got mine done by a clinical psychology master’s student supervised by their professor. It was half the price (and my insurance ended up covering 40%), no GP referral required. If anyone reading this has a college or university near them, check if they have that option. Added bonus is that the students are usually more up to date on current diagnostic criteria compared to someone who has been practicing in the field for a while.
I also get my dental check ups done at the university dental school for the same reason.
Nah, I’ll just take a tiny hit of meth. It will either work or I’ll have the whole place clean. Win win.
It’s not hard to get a test
Even if money isn’t an issue, it’s actually really hard (particularly for someone with ADHD symptoms) to take the official test. It’s very Catch-22.
funny thing, I took my test in NZ where it’s cheaper and easier apparently, still cost a couple of thousand $NZ but I was given a bunch of forms to fill in… Found a quiet place to do them in time, read them and filled them in. then realised I’d not read them properly and had to request the forms be resent to complete a second time, this time body doubling with the misses to ensure I’d read and completed them appropriately.
felt like it was part of the test
can you read and fill in these forms by yourself? no, no I can’t…
Apparently, wolf wizardry.
Exactly! I mean, my son has an autism diagnosis, and my wife has ADS, and my best friend has both, and I work in a field where almost everyone is diagnosed with something, but surely I am normal, because no one diagnosed me. Yet.
I used to call myself an introvert with extrovert tendacies and so ya, I’m in this meme lol.
Maybe. I’m undiagnosed and I do consider myself an introvert but apparently I’m also socially somewhat skilled as people tend to like me.
big yes from me
What a weird way to say ambivert.
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I avoid people at all cost, and for the special few that make it into my life, I just won’t shut the fuck up 😭
It’s a problem, every night my partner has to manage my chattiness, if allowed I will just pillow-talk until 2am.
but yeah, I’m not autistic.
That’s not autism. That’s social anxiety.
Why not both!
This is probably because introvert and extrovert are just made up and there’s no evidence anyone falls neatly into either.
It’s also a spectrum. You can also be in the middle and be an omnivert.
…shut up. -.-
I was like this. I was diagnosed at 28 years old, and now I’m 39. The last remnants of my extroverted tendencies are dying, though. I recently had two friends ghost me because of trauma influenced behavior that I was experiencing. People pretend they’re tolerant of autism riiiiiiiight up until something genuinely difficult happens. Then you get to see how your “friendship” was based on a masked version of you and therefore completely fake.
Someone I thought I had a 20 year “friendship” with ghosted me with zero explanation after I moved 1600 miles across the country to live closer to. My extraverted tendencies cause more harm than the loneliness that comes with introversion. It’s just not worth it.
Yes.
These days I think of myself as extrovert but most people think the opposite. Sometimes I wonder if anybody even is absolutely one or the other at all times and circumstances.
My cousin is certified extrovert. She basically always „needs“ someone to talk to on family gatherings. I think she’s fine being alone, but if there’s a person she will talk to them.
If there’s someone telling a story and she’s not too invested she will open a parallel conversation.
Sometimes I wonder if anybody even is absolutely one or the other at all times and circumstances.
Well, absolutely not. I thought it’s pretty obvious that this is more like a scale were you fall somewhere between one and the other. Also, those words don’t really have any rigorous definitions.
Me.
