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DJDarren

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Quality Ass Man by day, tired by night.

#iPod nerd, #ADHD brain, fundamentally lazy.

He/Him Cishet, but pronounced like it's French.

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Susan60 , to actuallyautistic
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What do people read?

I was an avid reader of fiction when I was a child. Novels about challenging issues or strange fantasy worlds. In many ways reading was an escape to a safe place, but those books were also places where I could learn about how “people” worked. How they thought, felt & behaved. The diversity in those things.

I loved The Little Princess and The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, because they were about children who were different & how they coped. I loved The Chronicles of Narnia because, although quite dated now, the girls had real adventures alongside their brothers. There was a series of books about witches, good & bad, which I loved but can’t remember the titles or author.

I loved Ivan Southall’s books, where tweens & teens faced dangers, often without the support of adults. (Marsden’s Tomorrow when the War Began is reminiscent of Southall.)

And as an adult, I still like youth & YA fiction, probably for the same reason, because I’m still learning how humans work. I also like adult fiction, but the naivety of youth fiction appeals.

And TBO, I read much more non-fiction than fiction nowadays. Obviously there’s the Autism & ADHD stuff that is currently dominating my reading, but also social commentaries of all sorts, by feminists, sociologists, etc.

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DJDarren ,
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@Susan60 I can heartily recommend you digging into Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series. A well-written female protagonist, with a largely female supporting cast in a series that was aimed at a YA audience. They’re excellent books. @Uair @actuallyautistic

DJDarren , to random
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Further to my griping yesterday about my medication woes; I’ve just contacted my local ADHD service.

Things I have learned:

  • As far as I can tell, two years after being referred to them (already diagnosed), I’m still not officially on their books.

  • The way I’ve been having to do things (make a GP appointment, wait two weeks for it, they send a letter, we wait two weeks for a reply, etc…) is just The Way To Do Things.

DJDarren OP ,
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I’ve also learned that the service are changing their Advice & Guidance supplier on April 1st, so today is the last day any dosage increase requests can be submitted until then.

So I’ve just had to hastily arrange a phone appointment with a GP, who has said he’ll do his best to email them today, but that there may not be a secretary available to send the email.

What. The. Fuck.

How is this shit so fucking hard?

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DJDarren , to actuallyadhd
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@actuallyadhd Feeling incredibly ‘meh’ this afternoon, having had a phone call from the dr’s surgery to let me know that the pharmacy can’t get my Elvanse, so have returned the prescription.

So now I have to jump through all the fucking hoops - AGAIN - just to be able to get the medication that helps me work to the expected standard of this fucking neurotypical world.

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