Finally had a doctor willing to do a preliminary evaluation for ADHD.

The response was basically "oh shit you check every box for this how have you been functioning?"

Poorly. I have been functioning poorly.
I recently had one of those & #39;oh shit& #39; moments of figuring out that nearly everything I thought was a personality quirk was...

Untreated ADHD.

And jesus christ, it& #39;s made functioning easier when I know what I& #39;m dealing with.

But doctors are kinda dicks about diagnosing women.
At one point I had the same psychiatrist as a friend at Kaiser. A male friend.

He was diagnosed with ADHD & medicated at his first appointment.

I was told I needed to go to six months of group therapy and pass six months of drug tests before they would consider evaluating me.
Like, if they& #39;d just told me "I don& #39;t think you have ADHD," that would have been one thing.

But they were like CRAWL THROUGH GLASS BITCH.
Also, my brother is trans and he has ADHD/ASD.

He was diagnosed as having depression when he still presented as female.

Interesting how that works.

Anyway, here& #39;s Wonderwall.
Also, I paid out of pocket for a doctor outside of Kaiser to be evaluated, because apparently it just takes having enough money to throw at a problem to fix it.
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