Dear Reader,
It has been over a year since my last post and a lot has happened (mostly procrastinating), but I will try and give you a brief summary now.
um, well, there was the, um... thingy, you know, no? Actually I have very little memory of what happened today, let alone the day before or even 365 days before. They are the things that happen in the "not now". ADHD world tends to be 'in the present', 'in the now', like a little bubble of immediacy, where the things happen, and then become lost in the 'not now'. As I write this I have a vague notion that I have already written about something like this already. If I have it'll be in the 'not now', a dark void of unimaginable size (a bit like the Universe in that respect, and that is certainly unimaginably big, so big in fact that if you zoomed out you'd see fibers of galaxies threading their way through the darkness with massive expanses of nothingness between).
Ok, back on topic. There were some notable events...
ADHD Service Changes
In January 2017 was the last time I saw Dr Cubbin as the ADHD service was moved "in-house" within the West Hants Clinical Commissioning Group (WHCCG) in an effort to save money. I now have to go to Basingstoke (37 miles away) instead of Marchwood (19 miles away). I'll write in more detail in another post about this change.
I found out my IQ
When you've thought of yourself as a lazy twat for most of your life, because you didn't continue with your education, you don't remember facts, you
hate [too strong] dislike reading and writing, start things and never finish them, getting your IQ tested is probably not top of your list of things to do. However, for one reason or another (which I shall write about in another post) I decided to take a Mensa Test. The results came back saying I had an IQ of 149 which is in the top 1% of the population. I knew I wasn't completely stupid, but never in a million years did I believe I had that potential, and even less so as I believed my ADHD had been holding me back.
I joined a PPG
In order to try and raise the profile of Adult ADHD I thought I would start by joining the Patient Participation Group (PPG) for my local GP Survey. I've volunteered at flu-clinics shepherding patients to the next available nurse/doctor as they queued for their yearly jabs, and I've been to a couple of meetings.
That is as much as I can remember that is noteworthy and related to ADHD. I will try and keep this blog going as there is always something ADHD related going on,
