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Congrats - it sure is a milestone…

I was diagnosed at 44yo, finally got to a psychiatrist who said to me: you’re doing every single life hack/strategy we could possibly ask an ADHD sufferer to be doing to manage their symptoms… Did you want to try some medication?

I was like: “so that means, yes, I DO have ADHD?”

He just smiled and said: “yes, absolutely!”

I was so relieved to finally have some kind of answer I broke down on the spot, and had to defer the meds conversation till the next months appt as it was all too much at that point.

I’m 8-9 months in, and wish I’d been diagnosed 35 years ago!

My journey wasn’t anything like yours, it only took 12 months once I decided to pursue it, but even I had to laugh when my GP gave me a list of a dozen psychiatrists and told me to call each one to see if they were taking referrals…

I looked at him and said: you’re giving me a list of 12 things to do with no deadline so I can get diagnosed with ADHD… Isn’t this a terrible idea?!

Yes… I realised member everything in the shower… Even the things I remembered in the shower yesterday…

And have zero ability to get it into my digital journal…

I’ve used airtable for these sorts of “personal use” use cases (eg: home built rocketry flight log) and I was even able to use their iPhone / Android app to enter data.

I haven’t paid a cent for it yet as I’m well under their data caps.