OK y'all, I'm at the end of my rope, proverbial and otherwise
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OK y'all, I'm at the end of my rope, proverbial and otherwise.
If I don't get some focus back I may never be able to work again, and that's not going to...well, work.
Has anyone reading this gotten an ADHD diagnosis as an adult? How did you go about it? I'm running into nothing but...bullshit everywhere I turn.
I don't want an autism diagnosis right now, so I'm hoping the lesser stigma around ADHD these days might work to my benefit.
As far as I can tell, my state medicaid covers mental health stuff, but I can't work out how to go about doing...anything about it. And the major medical system here doesn't do adult assessments. Well they do, but it's ONE practitioner and her wait times are in the 12-18 month range right now.
I'm hoping if I can get diagnosed, I'll try meds and hope they can contain the ADHD nonsense long enough for some autistic hyperfocus to step forward and do it's thing.
Anyway, any and all suggestions, thoughts, tangents and even excoriations are truly appreciated.
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OK y'all, I'm at the end of my rope, proverbial and otherwise.
If I don't get some focus back I may never be able to work again, and that's not going to...well, work.
Has anyone reading this gotten an ADHD diagnosis as an adult? How did you go about it? I'm running into nothing but...bullshit everywhere I turn.
I don't want an autism diagnosis right now, so I'm hoping the lesser stigma around ADHD these days might work to my benefit.
As far as I can tell, my state medicaid covers mental health stuff, but I can't work out how to go about doing...anything about it. And the major medical system here doesn't do adult assessments. Well they do, but it's ONE practitioner and her wait times are in the 12-18 month range right now.
I'm hoping if I can get diagnosed, I'll try meds and hope they can contain the ADHD nonsense long enough for some autistic hyperfocus to step forward and do it's thing.
Anyway, any and all suggestions, thoughts, tangents and even excoriations are truly appreciated.
@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic I went to my GP and asked for a referral. Met with her and had my diagnosis and a suggestion to see someone else for an autism diagnosis by the end of the meeting. Never did follow up on that.
The hard part was my meds going out of stock a year later. But at least I finally answered the question people have been asking me all my life - "What the hell is wrong with you?"
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@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic I went to my GP and asked for a referral. Met with her and had my diagnosis and a suggestion to see someone else for an autism diagnosis by the end of the meeting. Never did follow up on that.
The hard part was my meds going out of stock a year later. But at least I finally answered the question people have been asking me all my life - "What the hell is wrong with you?"
@mpark @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic
Wow, I wish our 'system' worked anywhere NEAR that smoothly.
Yeah, I'm hoping for similar results, to be honest.
I'm more likely to get comments like, "how did you come up with that!?" thankfully, though I often ask myself 'what the hell?!?!'
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@mpark @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic
Wow, I wish our 'system' worked anywhere NEAR that smoothly.
Yeah, I'm hoping for similar results, to be honest.
I'm more likely to get comments like, "how did you come up with that!?" thankfully, though I often ask myself 'what the hell?!?!'
@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic Part of why it happened so smoothly was that the doctor I was referred to is part of the same office. Part of it was that the only diagnostic criteria I didn't meet was the dreaded bouncing leg - a behavior I trained myself out of years ago because of how much it annoys people. Otherwise, I ticked every box.
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@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic Part of why it happened so smoothly was that the doctor I was referred to is part of the same office. Part of it was that the only diagnostic criteria I didn't meet was the dreaded bouncing leg - a behavior I trained myself out of years ago because of how much it annoys people. Otherwise, I ticked every box.
@mpark @actuallyadhd
@actuallyautisticYeah, I worry about how much I've learned to mask alongside the autism...stuff.
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@mpark @actuallyadhd
@actuallyautisticYeah, I worry about how much I've learned to mask alongside the autism...stuff.
@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic I didn't make a conscious choice to completely unmask, but somehow I did it anyway.
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@barefootrambling @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic I didn't make a conscious choice to completely unmask, but somehow I did it anyway.
@mpark@mathstodon.xyz @barefootrambling@autistics.life @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe I think it's something to do with getting older. Possibly a mix of different things, but perhaps a big one is slowly caring less and less about the social politics and norms.
I used to be far more self conscious of what my body was doing, for example, and try and stay 'still'. Now I more commonly wave my arms around and act out with my body what I'm talking about, as it is more natural for me to do so.
It takes for less energy for me to be all over the place than it actually does to remain still. So there is probably an energy capacity reason here too. -
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