ADHD Disasters: Destroying The Laundry Door
A few weeks ago I got locked out of my house. I was pottering round in the garden when my wife and daughter bid me a cheery farewell and tootled…
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27 August 2024
Enormous Wait Times For ADHD Assessments In The UK
I saw on BBC news recently that there is an eight year waiting list for an ADHD assessment in the NHS, with nearly 200,000 adults waiting. In Sheffield, where I…
30 July 2024
How Many People With ADHD Does It Take To Change A Toilet Roll?
Alice and Bob live together and they both have ADHD. They are delightfully neuro-spicy. Claire lives with them. She doesn’t have ADHD. Poor Claire. One day Claire is out, and…
23 July 2024
What Happens When Two People With ADHD Meet
When yellow paint is mixed with blue paint, then green paint is made. When antimatter and matter collide, they annihilate each other. When a positive charge meets a negative charge,…
14 May 2024
Ritalin Turned Me Into A Writer
Two years ago I was a overstimulated stress jelly. One mental health care plan, multiple psychologist appointments, six months of denial, and two psychiatrist appointments later, and I’ve been diagnosed…
23 April 2024
5 Useful Character Flaws For Writers
I’ve started to attend a few writers groups and conferences, and inevitably I’ve met other writers. There was no avoiding it. They were there and I was there, and I…
5 March 2024
Rejection Sensitivity And Beta Readers
Update: Softening came back from beta read and I took the feedback a lot better than I though I would. My feeling was of gratitude rather than horror. This post…
23 January 2024
What’s (My) ADHD Like?
I’ve had a massive bust up with the neighbours. They really loathe me. Last month, when reversing my car out of a tight spot, I ran over the gardener’s hedge…
10 December 2023
Outside Looking In
There is a party at a large house and all the guests are in the brightly lit front room. Maybe it’s Christmas, and the room is tastefully decorated with red…
30 November 2023