Second verse, same as the first: SO IT TURNS OUT THAT I HAVE ADHD

I had the NHS version of my ADHD assessment! It was amazing!

... Okay, backing up: jilliferium came over to visit yesterday, which was excellent; we had tasty Korean barbeque, traded Pokémon, figured out how to do raid battles, and got to pet a Stealth Staffie that liked hanging out at eye-level in the pub. This morning we both rolled out of bed at arse o'clock so that we could head into town and get dessert for breakfast at the café that does things like "here is a stack of four american pancakes with whipped cream and red velvet brownie/salted caramel brownie on top" before I had to head across town to my assessment. captainraz and hardlyaverage came with me as moral support (their view)/less biased witnesses (my view), and the doctor was SO NICE. Like, he was half an hour late but he apologised and explained! (He had an earlier appointment that ran over, it was fair.) The first thing he said in the interview was that he liked to observe patients in the waiting room to see how they act when they're not in an a pressured environment, and he was prepared to write me a scrip just based on that. Constantly in motion, yay!

(I know I mentioned most of this on twitter, but I try to write this stuff up long-form because I know a bunch of OTHER people who are trying to get diagnoses and it's sometimes useful for people to see what happened in other appointments?)

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