The Most ADHD Things of Jan/Feb '25

We're griefy AF! So all the more reason to have a giggle. It's time for the ultimate shame eradicator! Raising ADHD awareness and connecting the ADHD Community by sharing @adhdafpodcast followers and Patreon Community members 'Most ADHD Things' - to laugh at the things that would usually make us cry, break the stigma and drop the shame!

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Transcript

  And that's moving up and down. That's good, isn't it? Oh, isn't it? Um, hello, greetings,  hola! Hola! Greetings from Ibiza! Que tal? The sun has actually come out for the first time in a week. Not, not that we're complaining. No, we're not. But what a week it has been. So if you haven't heard this podcast before, it will be chaotic, the sound quality probably won't be very good, and I have quite an annoying voice, but we're here for ADHD. 

Here we are!  So, um, this week Has seen the proper launch of ADHD AF plus charity.  The first in person peer support group to connect and empower ADHD adults of marginalized genders in Scotland, England and Wales. The first one started in Aberdeen.  Where it all began, as is only right, Silver City, with the wonderful Kirsty Mason volunteer facilitating.

Well done, Kirsty. Thank you very much, Kirsty, and thank you to all involved. So, that is a monthly support group. The next one will be the first Wednesday, well, it'll be the first Wednesday of every month. There are more details about that on adhdafplus. org. uk and there'll be links to everything in the show notes.

But this is what We aim to be a monthly Most ADHD Things episode. But it's been a couple of months. Because it's been a hell of a couple of months. So again, if you've not listened before, massive trigger warning. My mum passed away in January. So we've had a hellish few months.  And I'll be honest with you, I am griefy AF today, but that is all the more reason to try and have a little bit of fun. 

So each Saturday I ask the followers of ADHD AF podcast on socials and the peer support community online, the membership, what the most ADHD thing they've done is, and this is Most of some of our favorite most ADHD thing entries from listeners, followers, and community members. We share these to eradicate the shame of the ridiculous situations that ADHD can get us into.

Not only that. Sharing those posts connects ADHDers because it validates the experiences, it normalizes the experiences, and it also makes people not just go, oh my gosh, me too, but hopefully makes them speak to each other so that they get that invaluable peer support, make connections, know that they are not alone, and we can all learn from, lean on each other.

And have a giggle in the name of ADHD awareness. So, I feel like I've been talking for a million years. No, it's about ten minutes. Just about ten minutes. I really am very, very sad today. So, it feels really strange. Three minutes.  Okay. It feels really strange to be doing this, but we need a giggle. Yeah, we do.

So, This is my husband. His name is Big because he's really bloody big. Six foot eight, the bastard.  The big bloody bugger. So Big is here to read these with me. I can't believe you just called me a bastard. You're not a bastard, you're wonderful. I am, you're wonderful. You've been helping me so much and looking after me, so thank you.

Right, let's dive into it before I start  lamenting about sad things. Let's crack on. Let's do this. Okay. Right. You're going to start. Okay, so the first one is from John underscore Hill on Insta. So the first ones will be Insta, the second lot will be Facebook, and the third lot will be Discord private community.

And actually just to say before I dive in, sorry, one more thing.  ADHD presents differently in every single individual. If you have or suspect you have ADHD, if any of these points that we share don't sound anything like what you're experiencing, please don't let that invalidate your experience. If you are somebody that is listening to find out more about ADHD, Just remember, we can never generalize.

All people with ADHD are different. We experience, uh, similar symptoms in different ways, and how they impact us can, can change and fluctuate throughout our lifetime. So, if this doesn't sound like you, that doesn't mean you don't have ADHD. And if it doesn't sound like ADHD to you, if you don't think, well, that doesn't sound like a very ADHD thing, it's the most ADHD thing to ever have.

That person. Yes. And one of the greatest joys of doing this is when people say, actually, I just did something absolutely ridiculous that would have made me so upset, but I remembered the most ADHD thing exists and I've come onto socials to share it and now I can laugh about it. So that's what it's all about.

Eradicating shame and connecting. The ADHD community with humor whilst raising awareness. Let's go. Let's go. So john underscore hill on instagram Spent ages searching online for the perfect valentine's card for my partner I was so excited when I found the perfect one. I only discover when it arrived that i'd ordered a birthday card details details  Had to do the dishes, but I had to put away the other dishes first.

Got annoyed with the chaos of my cabinet. So decided that needed to be cleaned out before I put the dishes away. Ended up painting the cabinets while I was there. Bloody hell. Still haven't done the dishes  and now I'm sitting on the floor next to all the pans. I pulled out to clean and paint the cabinets, listening to an HDF podcast.

I mean, that's, uh, yeah, that's a lot to read. Incredible, isn't it? Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing it. And well done for painting. Painting! That's brilliant. Ella's House of Colour, I had my assessment today and got my official diagnosis. Yes, Ella! Massive congratulations. Red Hot Llama Comedy.

Great, though.  I like to imagine a field of really hot llamas. Red hot. Red hot, telling hilarious jokes.  In edgy. Uh, I woke up at six. Outside was night. I panicked because I had to change a flight home at six. Dashing around, trying to pack my things, having a mini panic attack. I rang my friend to say I've slept in and missed my flight home, to which she said, Honey, it's 6am, your flight's not till 6pm.

Jesus, it was a heart attack. Yeah, that's got to be alarming, hasn't it? Oh gosh, happy tat. I usually cut my own hair. I have a short bob. I know we met.  I've, I've been doing it myself for five years and it always looks pretty good. But on Friday, I went a bit far. I hacked out huge layers. and went a lot shorter.

It was like, it went a bit demonic. I decided to forget about it. Didn't mention to family. I just washed it and went to bed. But when I woke up, it actually looked awesome because I'd layered it. It was like a wavy, short 1920s Bob. I'm super happy with my accident, accidental demonic haircut.

Congratulations. Impulsivity for the win.  Sometimes. Aerialist Angela, in bed, watching Netflix on my iPad, rolled over to go to sleep and didn't know why all of a sudden I was soaking wet and cold. Decided to prop a can of iron brew up against myself on the bed instead of on the table. I did think, is this smart?

That's not safe. But convinced myself I'd be careful. I forgot I existed until it was pouring out all over me on the bed.  Not your own brew hen! Isabella underscore Kashina underscore Rose. The other day, I went to shut the door to my living room before bed and it wouldn't shut. I was so confused and after I inspected it, I called my landlord.

My landlord sent a repairman the next day and he found a marble wedged under it. I was mortified. Ha ha ha ha! You've been playing marbles? At least you haven't lost them. No, aren't we?  Uh, ClassyBird28.  That's me. No, it's not me. Classybird28 kicked a heavy base at the side of the swimming pool after getting out.

It's there all the time. One broken little toe. Oh, we've got a third break for that toe. Need to level up. Because the other one, other little toe has only been broken twice. I've broken my little toes several times. Yeah, same. Oh God, it's horrible. It's the worst, it's the worst pain. And the thing is as well, I've done it that many times that my little toenails are weird.

Yeah. They kind of grow outwards in weird directions. Yeah, they do, yeah. Because they've been knocked that many times. Ugh!  Mazpoke thought my car had been stolen with my daughter in it! Jesus Christ!  When I came out of the shop, she's 14, I soon realized I walked to the shop and my daughter was at home. I genuinely for a good three seconds thought she'd been kidnapped.

She was at home the whole time. Oh, thank goodness. I mean, that is a relief, isn't it?  Mindfully underscore moody. Search the whole house for my glasses, they're on my head. Good. Yep. Well, at least you didn't think they'd been kidnapped. 

Livvy does life. I went for a swimming lesson and when I turned up, the teacher told me I wasn't on the list. So I was like, Oh God, I forgot to confirm my booking. Turns out I was queuing up on the wrong side of the pool for a completely different class.  It's probably underscore me. I ignored all my responsibilities to spend time on my new hobby.

Absolutely. Great. Prioritising. Honestly, absolutely. Eleanor Amy Wilkinson. I booked a table for three, not two. I panicked at the restaurant check in and just went along with it. Much to the confusion of my mum, I sat there in complete shame as my mum decided to go to waiting staff and say the table was booked for two, not three people.

I thought that by telling the waiting staff I'd accidentally booked three, they would shout at me and get angry. That wasn't the case. They were all really sweet about it. Your RSD is well and truly a really shit daydream. It is, isn't it? It's really shit daydreams. for, for giving my catchphrase. Do you know, it's really funny because in my head I'm like How far would you have taken it?

Like,  if your mum hadn't have come out with it, would you have bought an extra meal and a drink?  Yeah, they'll have a Coke. They'll get here in a minute. They'll be here soon.  Oh, bless you. And yes, really, really shit daydreams. But you know what? It kind of makes me think of when we go anywhere, if something isn't right, and I, and I go up and say, Yeah.

You know, this room is too loud. My husband didn't sleep or something like that. You really get Really rsd about it.  You don't like it if I complain that's born from my evil aunties though as a child  Essentially doing things deliberately to make me feel awkward  They used to make me answer the telephone when it was ringing on television I mean I was  like till I was like 10 12 or something?

No, I wasn't that old. It was hard enough being such a giant kid as it was. I used to do all sorts of things. Just to, yeah, like really embarrass me in shops and things. Anyway, we digress, we digress. Narnia Harvey Yesterday I sent someone a kind of garbled text message. Then I sent them another kind of garbled text message in an attempt to clarify both were left unread and now my RSD is really bad.

Oh bless you. Really shit daydreams. They might be RSDing. That they don't understand what you've sent them. Yeah. And they're like, oh god, why haven't I figured it out? Yeah. Bless. I agree. Uh, Diverse Skincare UK. I bought four family members Thai Massage vouchers for different days at different times. I had to print out the vouchers, write the days and times that aligned with their online bookings.

I think you can guess the rest of this story.  They were very understanding, but they turned up at the same appointment and I had them all mixed up. Oh dear. Still, don't they count? Yeah. I'd love a Thai Massage. I'd love a Thai Massage.  Castle of the sea worked for weeks on a big grant proposal spent all this time with the team finessing the words to be just right.

Start copying the answers in 30 minutes before the deadline and realize there's a 300 word limit. Please don't even start with me with word limits. That's my worst nightmare. The most stressful editing I've ever done in my life. I looked at the application. So many times. Many. How did I miss the word limit?

Yeah, because we shouldn't be constrained as wordy people. We need to use as many bloody words as we like. That's why, yeah, I hope. I hope you got it through though. , definitely her level up era. Slept through my alarm, then was highly fucking agitated.  , I  like this already. Go on to be stuck behind someone with the pace of a snail  , then drove past my turnoff twice.

Got back home, remembered I needed to take my tablet as I'd forgotten when I woke up. Took tablet, had a phone call from Sun School and gave in, gave in length backstory of family breakdown when she was only asking about homework. Then due to the sudden mouth like superglue  and feeling buzzing I wrote, in fact I had taken the tablet and had gone, gone to have a second look.

Oh bless you. I'm glad you were all right. Do you know, it's not just when people walk slowly because sometimes I walk slowly, but it's the one that bugs me is when people walk next to  And it's just like, we're not on a date in front or behind. I think you don't, you don't like it when I walk next to you. 

And you obviously don't ever walk slowly. No, I do. I do. I've never seen you walk slowly. No, I do walk really fast. Yeah, you do. You, you're like a little walking machine. I'm going somewhere. I don't want to get there. I can't wait. No, yeah.  I like to enjoy my time, take the view in. Have a stop, sit down for a minute.

I know but if you're like And you're halfway round the back. I'm still, I'm still in Kaladabu or whatever and you're, you're in  Golden Buddha.  It's just, you know, if you're going for a leisurely stroll, then yeah, take in the sights. But if you're going from A to B, like, let's go. Let's get there. Gotta get there.

Just gotta get there. Grace Wood. Hiya, Grace. Grace jumped out of a plane for ADHD AF Very impressive. I know. So I went to the gym at 10 a. m., have to book a session for 10. 15, was wondering why my card wouldn't let me in, but let my friend in. Went to reception, she said I had booked for 12. 15, so it wouldn't let me in yet.

I proclaimed that it let my friend in, not really processing what she'd said. Rebooked the correct time, and my friend proceeded to tell me I'd booked a session two hours later. then I was there. The poor receptionist probably thought I was a bit silly. And then I left a car park earlier, couldn't find my phone in the car park, was sure I took it out of my coat pocket, stopped in the middle of a quiet road and searched aggressively, looked in the front and under the seats, I found it on the roof of the car.

Goodness me. Oh grace. Darren Smith.  That's our Darren. That's our  Dazza. We'll come back to Darren at the end. Darren, go on Darren. Last minute work trip to Arizona next week. I've had to book all through our work platform. All booked and approved. And now just the airport parking that needs to be done direct.

When putting all the details in, I suddenly realised I'd booked my return flight one day later than I should have. And will now miss my daughter's birthday. Oh Darren, no! Darren, so if you haven't heard the previous episode of ADHDF, It is Darren who runs the big ADHD fundraiser, but absolutely fine because the logistics are being handled by Beth instead. 

Jokes, jokes, jokes, jokes. Right, Maddie talks money, accidentally booked two sets of tickets to go and see a band and left it too late to sell them. 0505 Julie, I am a teacher and my school has just Had Ofsted. My subject had a deep dive so I had a 45 minute interview and three lesson observations. My head told me they were really pleased with the feedback he got about me and thanked the inspector for making adaptions for my ADHD.

In my head I was thinking adaptions? He never said that he never made any. Oh hang on. I was rapping and dancing in my interview to help me explain what I had been teaching reception, and he looked shocked, but then started smiling. Maybe it was that. Maybe it was that. Maybe it was that. Yes, yes. Uh, went all the way to the city centre for book club, only to realise I'd got the date wrong, and it was actually on Wednesday, not Tuesday.

This was discovered when the host posted on their story that they were excited for book club. Oh, bugger.  Emelina, impulsively ordering expensive new trainers and getting the delivery notification the day I got distracted going down the stairs and missed the last steps resulting in a broken ankle. Oh no!

Meaning I can only wear one of said trainers for at least the next four weeks till the cast comes off. Oh god. Oh, bless you. R2D2 Vixen!  Is that like rsd2? Um bought a manual treadmill thinking it was a folding walking pad not realizing how big and bulky it was Wow Little joel cfc bought another notepad to write about my thoughts and feelings.

Let's see how many times I use it or lose it Ingrid everly in 83. I was telling my friend about my new over ear headphones and you swipe the cup for next Um, not next wait What? Thanks, Brain. We had a good laugh about it, though. Circus Chrissy. Well, last week, I forgot to shave one leg the week before that never washed my hair, but this week wins as I tried to get in my bath fully dressed. 

That counts as doing laundry, right? Yes. I think so. Go on, Chrissy. Connie BW said I'll put the food shopping away, set a timer to make it fun, as I don't want to do it, ended up ignoring the timer and reorganising the cupboards whilst I ignored putting the shopping away. Very good. Ian Hepworth made a coffee, thought, that's gone cold quick.

I never drink a drink at the temperature it was made at because of the thing, at that thing. I had used cold water. Yes. Oh, well, that's, uh, yeah. Uh, Abby Gibbs, 35, booked my holiday for the wrong week and wondered why work kept calling. 

Um, Steph. X. Carter. A couple of kitchen incidents. Got home early from work and decided to put some soup on in the slow cooker. Excellent, I've got all evening for it to cook. I'll batch it up before I go to bed. Couldn't work out why I was so frickin hungry getting ready for work the next day. Oh yes, it's the delicious smell of caramelised soup that's wafting through my house.

Also the laundry that had to be re done twice because I failed to hang it out. And the day I came home to a super toasty warm kitchen as the oven had been on. Oh my god. Uh For a day or two! Yeah. AI needs to bring me an ADHD kitchen assistant. Oh, that would be good. Um, Red Punk Social. So this week's special has been sharing variations of regular life statements such as, Hey babe, why don't you sit down and put your feet up?

Which came through my neurodivergent filter as, Hey babe, why don't you sit Why don't you sit down and chop your feet off? Ha ha ha!  There have been many ADHD blinders this week, which has made for really funny, colourful conversations, which I could have written down, but forgot because of ADHD. Pixie Retro, I lost my wedding ring two years ago.

I've spent so many hours tearing my house apart in search of where I misplaced it. Well, last night I was changing knobs on my jewellery armoire. Ha ha!  Sorry, I've never, never thought I would say changing knobs on my jewellery armoire.  But I have now so thank you Pixie Retro. I will continue. Well last night I was changing knobs on my jewelry armoire and there it was.

The only reason I think I finally saw it is it Is I dropped part of the knob into the drawer and landed next to the ring So some might say this is a glitch in the matrix. I know this one was ADHD I think that was my favorite one to ever read All DHT Pandemonium  realised today I've been wearing my old glasses for at least two days.

Came home from work, everything felt kind of fuzzy. Like not quite in focus and I felt a bit dizzy, oh bless you. Realised it felt a bit like when I got new glasses. When I replaced my old glasses, I got nearly an identical pair. Tried them both and yep, been wearing the wrong glasses, no idea how long, but it's been at least two days, not been sleeping super well.

So just put things feeling a bit off down to feeling a bit tired and possibly coming down with a cold. Feel like this is the complete opposite issue to always losing your glasses, having too many. Yeah, too many glasses. And identical at that. Yeah, indeed.  Uh, Crumbs for Cookies decided to do a tip run, one of my favourite things.

Loaded the car up You could've seen Big's mates, Rach! Oh, honestly.  They are He's a regular down at the tip in Aberdeen, they love him. Yeah, well they've probably forgotten me by now. Never! Never, no. There's only one of these. They wouldn't have forgotten me, would they? No. We were so close.  Uh, decided to do a tip run, loaded the car up because it all had to fit.

Uh, and why do more runs than I need to, bent the axle. Now I need to take it to the garage and see. Oh no! Oh no! Bloody hell. That's, that's a lot of weight. It really is.  So Rach does Tarot Tuesday. Oh yeah! In the community, in the online peer support community, body doubling sessions on a Tuesday morning, we get tarot cards.

And they're always freakishly accurate. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but anyway, that's not good. I hope you got it sorted. So Rani underscore SVH broke apart on my vacuum cleaner. We're sure I had a replacement for it, but couldn't find it anywhere. Decided impulsively to buy a brand new vacuum cleaner. Two days later found the replacement part for the old one.

The ADHD tax is kicking my ass. Bless you. It's kicking mine 24 seven as well, mate. We're not alone.  Alexandra Kearney was, was all set to finish work at 5. 30. Then also start a shift at my second job at 5. 30. Totally forgot to factor transport into this plan. Just immediately arrived. Pick your heels. Bing! 

Underscore Jessanne33 underscore Spontaneously changed, edited and improved a painting a loved one had gifted me as it was huge and hideous. Realised two days later it was a terrible decision and what if that loved one comes to visit and expects to see it? Now RSDing so hard and don't even know if I can hang it up as it gives me anxiety.

Everyone is saying they won't realize or it's a big thing to gift someone a half a wall size painting without consulting them first. So do what you like with it. I know this but still RSDing and trying to think of solutions to enjoy the new and improved painting. What didn't help? Also was my partner was like, you don't want to overwork it.

He was trying to be supportive and encouraging me to step away for a bit. All us ADHDers know what that comment does to us. Hell yeah!  Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a very commonly co occurring condition of ADHD, as is Pathological Demand Avoidance, more commonly occurring. With autism, but with autism being the most commonly occurring condition of ADHD, I believe it's 70 percent of ADHDers also have autism.

You know, it could, it could be either or. But yeah, don't tell me what to do! Bless you.  Do you know what I think the answer is? Just take it away if you don't like it and put it under something and then get it out again when they're coming around. Yeah. That'll sort of cover it at the same time. I don't know.

I don't know. Well, I feel there's quite a lot to unpack in this. I would like to know what it looked like. Yes, that's true. I want dimensions. Can you send us a before and after picture, please? I want dimensions, height and width, um, what the subject matter was. What the medium? Was it oil? Water? You know, you just, please, just let us know.

Let us know more. I don't want photo evidence. I don't want you to get in trouble. Okay,  just for private news. I want to see what the improvements were. Yeah,  not, not public. I don't want to get you in trouble, is what I'm saying, with the loved one who Yeah, DM. Just, yeah, please. Thanks. Caitlin Galloway. Tell my husband about the surprise I had planned for Valentine's Day because I got so excited. 

I always do that. Yeah, you're a terrible actress. I've planned a surprise for you but I really need to know that you actually want it. Yeah. So can I just tell you what it is?  Here's your present.  I hope it fits and I hope it's the right colour because I knew you really wanted this special hat that I bought you.

Or whatever. Oh yeah.  I always start a present with, I put you this thing and I'm really excited about it. And if I've managed to keep it a secret I give it to you and say. But you know what? If you don't like it, you can just send it back. It's okay if you hate it. Oh yeah, you'll, yeah, it's alright if you don't like this.

Just take it back. But that's what I asked for. Yeah, no, but if you don't like it, you can send it back. Um danielle. nv forgot about a conversation I'd had with my boss. Oh dear, I hope you didn't get in trouble. Yeah.  Life of Zand. Organized and paid for a group outing to a bored games cafe as a friend's birthday gift.

Barely joined in because I can't process verbal instructions, get too distracted and have zero competitive nature. This is not the first time. Honest to God. Apart from the fact that you organized the event, I could have written that myself. I sit down to play a game, I'm like, I'm bored now. I literally keep forgetting what we're supposed to do.

When you tell me what to do, I'm Sort of want to know why or can't be bothered or can't process the words and then if I actually get stuck into it I'm not competitive. Anyway, I literally don't give a shit who wins. Yeah, so it's like literally there's no point in playing games Connie BW I can't be bothered cleaning the kitchen.

I hear you sat on the sofa Right set a timer run around my cologne. I can do this fun husband saying you're either nought or 100 miles per hour springs to mind 100 but I think it's funny as well because you always say That motivation can follow action. So it's like, if I wake up and I'm like, Right, okay, I'm just gonna clean this one thing.

Well then you get, you get motivated to clean more things. And you go into an absolute, yeah, cleaning frenzy. Not often, but it happens sometimes. Spirited underscore mama. Ahead of a drive from Edinburgh to Reading by way of avoiding the baking, packing, cleaning and work tasks that needed to be done on Thursday afternoon, I went to B& Q and bought a new toilet seat to replace the one that broke 8 years ago.

It's got the ocean on it though, so I'm really happy about it. There's a lot there, I'm loving it all. Thank you for sharing. Kristen underscore 27 underscore. Kristen is in Melbourne. She does our Power Half Hour Down Under. Wow. Yeah, on a Monday night if you're in the UK.  But it's Tuesday morning everyone, I think I've got that the right way around.

Could, um, I make a request that she calls me a flaming galah? You could, I'm sure she would be more than happy to oblige. Um, but yeah, Kristen, how you doing? What's she saying? For the first time ever, I dreamt about time blindness and it stressed me out. I was meant to be getting on a plane and could see the time passing and was shouting at people.

I had to go while simultaneously throwing things around my room and packing and Was there enough time to drive there and it's an international flight So we need longer and it cost 500 to change it and why can't I leave now? And oh, it was actually a nightmare stress me out when I woke up. I have dreams like that all the time Yeah, I'm always trying to get somewhere and I can't get there There's loads of obstacles in my way and I'm like, yeah, really really stressful.

Um, and then you wake up and it's actually fucking true Yeah  Emily Max, it's Monday in Australia and I didn't turn up for work because I thought it was an afternoon shift Ian Hepworth drove the wrong way down a one way street! Well, that's sore.  Eleanor Amy Wilkinson didn't check my car key batteries, went out for a night out, got my car at midnight, keys didn't work, had to call a friend to let me crash at hers at 1am.

Oh no!  PXXX2013 got hyper focused creating a new playlist while sitting looking at my, at the work I should have been doing, then start work at 10pm and it's already self sabotage because it's too late to be firing off emails. Yep. So this one's from LauraisADHDAF.  Who's that? She sounds like a legend. She sounds like a really cool person. 

Sorry, I was thinking. I was going to do something silly, but there's nothing I can do. Go on, do my voice! No. Go on, please! I can't do your voice. Try! Felt the pressure of Valentine's Day breathing down my neck. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! I can't, it's, that's ridiculous. Go on, go on then. It's like bullying you. I can't bully you with your voice.

I'm giving you permission. I don't want your permission. I refuse. Ha ha ha! Um, felt the pressure of Valentine's Day breathing down my neck. Researched all the restaurants, couldn't decide for a change booked. Three to give more time to decide than realize I'm not all going out. So canceled all three and fun enough.

I did exactly the same in anti Valentine's Day episode of the podcast two years ago. Will I ever learn? No. Have you ever learned? No. Wait, was that you? That was me. What  ? Carina. Henbury. Well, I found a lime in my cupboard this week and now I just wanna sing A lime. A lime in the coconut put together.  But the. 

And caught myself putting my cup in the spice cabinet when I meant to heat up my coffee in the microwave. But the best one, I couldn't find my toothbrush last night, I'd taken the holder out of the bathroom to wash it, I looked everywhere, the shower, my kid's bathroom, even the kitchen. I finally found my toothbrush INSIDE a big bottle of mouthwash! 

Okay. I thought it was my kids playing a prank, but they swore it wasn't them and said, ADHD!  Apparently, my brain was on autopilot and found a place to stick my toothbrush despite there being no holder on the sink. I have zero recollection of doing it. Like, bloop! Yep, pop that in there. Minty. Jim underscore Dizzle.

Months ago, I I bought an anti scratch spray online as my cats keep attacking my carpet and furniture. Today I realized it is in fact spray for my cat's skin to stop the scratching their Oh dear. My underscore wandering underscore days, been diagnosed with ADHD, bought five books about ADHD, not opened a single one yet.

Happy tapped. Matt, my friend's 40th birthday celebration lunch yesterday, I mentioned it was my birthday recently too, and added it was my 50th, and the whole table erupted in apologies that they didn't know, they now remember that it was actually my 51st. Luckily they're all good friends and know what I'm like. 

I had no, I tried to figure out. Literally a couple of days ago, how old I was and I really couldn't. I think I'm 42 this year, is that right? I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, must be. Yeah, yeah, you are. Yeah. Yes, you are. Coffee, yes and blank stares.  It's our Kimmy in Manchester. The RSD has been kicking my arse this week.

Oh no. Someone at work snapped at me and I've cried about it three times ever since and I'm currently in an R RSD spiral. Oh no!  Because I realized I spent nearly a month making a blanket for my nephew and I've just realized it's been nearly six weeks since they got it. And my brother in law, sister in law haven't even acknowledged it.

So obviously that means they hate both me and the blanket. And I should never have spent my time making gifts ever again. Because what I make is terrible. Oh no, don't think that. It will be incredible. They've just forgotten to send you. Send you a  I'll have a blanket. We'd love your blankets, Kimmy. Get them on the Emporium, they'll be fantastic! 

Oh, Kimmy, really shit daydreams. I hope you got your thank you from your forgetful brother and sister in law, but very likely very grateful, and I hope that the person at work has stopped being such a bastard, um, or I'll tell them what for. How about that? Ooh, yeah, all right. Fighting talk. ADHD. ADHD mum rules.

I thought you said mamories. 

ADHD mamories. Let me get my hands.  ADHD mum rules. I try to Sorry. Go on, sorry, sorry. ADHD, ADHD mum rules. I try to make pancakes.  Once I had all the dry ingredients in the bowl, I discovered I only had one egg when I needed two eggs. So I measured out half of the ingredients to use instead. Then I thought it would whisk the egg white to make it fluffier, but tripped over an abandoned slipper, abandoned slipper on my kitchen floor and dropped the bowl with the one egg I had on the floor, spattering myself and my kitchen with egg in the process.

Uh, by the time I cleaned it up, I'd burnt the pan, so I set the heat on the hob, as I'd forgotten about it, and then Grandpa went to throw the dry ingredients away, but I forgot there was no bag in the bin, bin covered in flour. Oh, no! I made coffee instead. It doesn't stop, does it? Doesn't stop. Can I offer you an egg in these dry days?

Are they getting these trying times? Um, but you know what that reminds me of? Was when we first started going out, we made pancakes, and I flipped a pancake and you instinctively stuck your foot out and caught it off. The pancake flew out and you, yeah, because it missed the pan, didn't it? And it was going to hit the floor, so I thought I'd stick my foot out and catch it.

And then you just stood there with one foot out. One foot with a pancake on my shoe. I always stick my feet out to catch things, it's really dangerous. So it's our Dazza again, it's Darren from the Big ADHD Fundraiser who says, I book Friday and Monday off for a long weekend for my birthday. On the Wednesday before, I was asked if I was doing anything at the weekend, my reply was, nothing special, totally forgetting I'd booked the days off and that it was my birthday.

On Thursday, I had a call from the hospital, asking if they could change my operation date, and I agreed, resulting in a pre op appointment on the Friday. My actual birthday, and the op on the Monday. That was the end of my long weekend, but at least I didn't have to book last minute time off. Oh, bless you!

Happy birthday! Happy birthday, Priya! Sophie Kent. Late for my midwife appointment because I drove to Asda instead of the surgery, though. Best part, you left your class for surgery to get to Asda. Not good. Do you know what? When I remember being in a lesson, we were learning, uh, it was a history lesson, we were learning about Florence Nightingale.

It was the first time I heard the word midwifery. And for some reason, I just found the word so funny that I literally pissed myself for the entire lesson laughing and got sent out. Midwifery. Midwifery! Midwifery. Sophia. Isabel, CB. I was so worried about being late for a train that I accidentally left my house at 8.

40 instead of 9. 40 and I only realised when I got to the station and couldn't get on my train. I guess that's almost anti ADHD, but I'm so constantly worried I'll be late. That's very true. Good point. Some of us are always late and some of us are so anxious about being late we overcompensate by being ridiculously early.

But ADHD tax either way because you could miss the train or you could have to wait around for an hour and waste time. Yeah, that could have been spent in bed. Bethany underscore Ashley underscore Smith got blood Round the whole house, three days in a row, because I cut my fingers zoning out and cooking, then every time I took the plaster off, blood went everywhere again.

Oh no! Hannah, ADHD therapist, made up a random set of answers to a stranger's question when they decided to invade my quiet coffee in a cafe. Felt way too awkward to explain my chaotic life and didn't want to make them feel awkward so it was easier to tell a story. So yeah, these are Facebook answers.

Thank you to all our Instagram legends. Gemclackphotography accidentally submitted my ADHD assessment questionnaire. Half done, whoops.  If anything that should tell them.  She did actually get her ADHD diagnosis and sent me a really lovely message. Well there you go, that's good. Because she was already ADHD AF, I'm just going to take this moment to say the very important point, self diagnosis is valid.

And it absolutely has to bloody well be, because there are many of us that have been misdiagnosed. gatekept, getting an assessment, and literally hundreds of thousands on waiting lists waiting to be diagnosed. So self diagnosis is valid. Hannah Bortolotto stopped at a gin sample station, selected one to try, proceeded to choke on it after a sip, was given water due to choking, and threw the water back too vigorously, splashing it.

Sorry. Threw the water back too vigorously. Splashing it over my face and neck instead. Laughed and backed away. Hilariously uncool in every situation. Oh, I love it, Hannah. And another one from Hannah. Waited an eternity for my cake to bake, then realised I hadn't actually pressed start on the oven. Popped it in the fridge to try again the next day.

Bless you. She's having a mare, Hannah! I'm having a sweet mare, covered in gin and water.  Gold cakes. Mixture. Anyway, uh.  Tracy too, went looking for my laptop, even went as far as checking location on find my phone and it was in front of me. I just popped the lid down.  Rachel Saxby, almost missed my flight because my partner undiagnosed ADHD and I diagnosed ADHD were too busy people watching and whinging about how bored we were after a two hour flight delay. 

Thank goodness you made it. Relatable. Kelly Marie Hillman. Well, it was last week, but I thought I turned up to my eye appointment 10 minutes early, but it turns out I was like 50 minutes late. Oh, babe. Emma Rose Lowry. Hyper focused on my 30th birthday partner, party, by throwing Partner?  By throwing together everything in 24 hours.

Canva poster, decorations and all, when it was just supposed to be a casual family get together and I didn't even want an event to begin with. I love it. You know, crunch time is when I normally do my best work. Yeah. Hope you had a brilliant party. Dawn Simpson received an invitation weeks ago for a party.

I had it in my diary. But you said party, that she'd be together. I looked at the invite regularly for weeks saying, I must not forget that party. Anyway, I forgot it. I'm sorry, dear. She went to all that last minute effort to make the decorations and everything. Anna Laird. I spent all week doing things where I think I should put that up on the ADHDF page when they do their what's the most ADHD thing you've done post and every time I forget.

Does that count? It does but you could just go to an old one. So there's always a most ADHD thing post so you don't need to wait for a Saturday. Anytime, any day. There are loads of them. Nearly three years worth coming up. That's a lot, isn't it? Sarah Griffin. I asked my toddlers to come to me so I could put sour cream on them.

I meant sun cream.  Gave my colleagues a good laugh. Yes. Come here, children. It's time to be sour creamed. Come, come and let me apply the sour cream to you. Nikki Wilson got my tax return in on time, just. She's got a screenshot. Look at this. 23, 59, 31st. Wow, that's very Go on, Nikki. Yeah.  We love a deadline.

Tracy Wilkes put an advert for a meetup with my late bloomers UK group for tomorrow and said it was at St James and not St Martins where it is actually going to be. I tagged over a thousand. Oh, well, I hope that late bloomers UK. Got got to where they were meant to be, and they are a brilliant group for, well, late bloomers, people coming out later in life and, and coming together for this new chapter in their life.

Yeah. And interestingly, Trace, who very kindly shared her story at Flakstock and at the Brighton show, it was really in unmasking and discovering her neurodivergence and unmasking that she realized she was. Gay all along. Yeah. Very interesting. Late Bloomers UK on Facebook peeps. Christine Mountley.

Managed to dislocate my ankle in my sleep.  Hope you're okay. Samantha Facer. Right now setting myself timers to try and focus to get things done but working straight through the timers because I make my own rules and I'm hyper focused on the task going on. I want to say hi from Pennsylvania, USA. I started listening to your podcast over a year ago, but didn't actually listen religiously until about December 2024.

I'm on episode 19, I think, and can't get over the feeling of validity I have from listening from your podcast. I've learned what RSD is. I have it. And how much I need body doubling, never knew what it was called, I just knew I struggled to get things done without someone in the room with me. I'm working hard to spread awareness and talk about my struggles.

I'm an art teacher, so a creative here, and hope to get my master's degree in art therapy to be able to better help others cope and feel not, not feel alienated. I was diagnosed at the age of 37, I'm 38 now, medicated and still struggling to feel a bit less of my ADHD symptoms. Thank you for your podcast.

Oh, thank you, Samantha. That's really lovely of you to share all of that. And amazing work, using your work to spread awareness. Absolutely. How nice is that? It's always strange when you kind of Realize that people really are actually listening all over the world. Yeah. Even though I know it, like in numbers, it's a really strange thing.

Yeah. I think it's like 203 countries and territories. It's crazy, isn't it? And really randomly. Yeah. The last couple of months I've started trending in Dublin. Yeah. So city wise, it's normally Sydney, Melbourne, then London. Yeah. And yeah, for some reason, Dublin. So if you're in Dublin, hello Dublin people, welcome to the ADHDF family.

I don't know why we're trending now, maybe it's because I just got my Irish passport. I'm an Irish citizen, peeps. You are, you are. Maybe we need to move to Dublin. Maybe, yeah. But you know what, in all seriousness, I really would like to do a show in Dublin. Yeah. I've never got over there, and the main reason being That I just don't understand how to organize it, because there are different rules with Europe and stuff.

Oh, so it's European stuff. But yeah, if anybody is listening in Dublin, and you have a venue, or you have a friend who has a venue, get in touch, because I really would love to do a Dublin show, so, so, so much. That'd be great, wouldn't it? Yeah, really would.  Now we are on to Discord. Oh, so these are Discord, so these are from the Patreon Peer Support community members.

And so these are going to be read anonymously. I didn't check what I was putting in the wash, and when I saw it spinning around with a hairbrush,  hand cream, face cream and my glasses. Thankfully, everything was fine. This isn't the first time this has happened. My Fitbit also ended up in the wash before though.

Thankfully it was okay too. I also went to work recently with two pairs of pants on because I was sleepy and not thinking when I got ready that I must have went into the drawer twice when I was getting ready. I didn't notice till I went to go pee at work. Double pants for the win! Didn't I have a pair of pants in my jeans at that time?

You had a bulge in your trousers! I had a bulge in my trousers. It was a big, big thing. There was loads of people in the room. It was like a session on something. Yeah, it was a pair of pants that had got stuck. Yesterday's pants! Stuck in the leg or something. Anyway.  Moving on. Have been in moving house hell for about six weeks.

Friday was final day and had to hand back keys. Though I'd done a good job and cleaners had too. Landlady disagrees. Whatever. Decided to prepare car for tip visit tomorrow. Was well chuffed I got everything in to find I'd lost my car key in the process.  Spent one over an hour searching through car, house, fridge, oven, shed, etc.

Because how the fuck have I lost a key? Emptied car again, no key. Emptied boxes from car and house. No key. Eventually took bin bag, destined the tip to back on empty contents into a box. There was the key and lip balm because obviously when you're clearing out your car and house to go to the tip, you just chuck your key in for shits and giggles.

Other Sunday like, Oh no, it's horrendous. Isn't it? Fuck my actual life. She says, bless you. Was working at admin, put the podcast on to keep me company, did some boring tasks. Made a cuppa, had a vague sense of missing something, and checked my phone, was due to be an important meeting 20 minutes ago.

Brilliant. I have washed my husband's driving license. I just read that, I have washed my husband several times.  I have washed my husband's driving license several times because he's a nurse, and I've also washed several pens with his white uniform. Oh no!  My bathroom did its thing again last night, so this person's bathroom is like a magical portal where time does not exist.

Um, I went into it for a few minutes and came out to find two hours had passed. I've lost count of the amount of times my partner has stopped me leaving to tell me to blend my makeup as I have concealer lines and dots all over my face. Makes me wonder how often I've done it when he wasn't there.

Somebody else commented after that, I'm such a forgetful blender.  A forgetful blender, I love it. Opened a bag of crisps. whilst unpacking shopping. I can multitask, so I started to put things away with my right hand and reach for Chris with my left hand and promptly started to chew on the Chris package.

Is that good? Told a hand dryer to fuck off today because  it was annoying me. It's swearing in an object, an ADHD thing or I'm too enthused. And somebody's replied, I don't know if this counts, but I just randomly yelled,  And  my partner, and it was the exact second that they picked up a video call from their boss. 

You're a bellend! Went to get some curtain hooks, and whilst I was looking for them, picked a few other things up, couldn't find the hook, so I decided to leave the other things as I couldn't face the queue. Got to the door and couldn't find my phone, went back to where I put the other stuff down, there was my phone sitting on the shelf! 

Taking seven and a half years to request that the IT department at work change everything to my actual real surname, and not the one that I was using on my CV as an experiment when I got the job. Seven years! This is me, actually. So in, uh, the, well, it was an episode from about this time last year, but then again mentioned in the Christmas, the Twixmas special is that Kim has the brilliant alarm that says, take the stuffing out from Christmas.

And on this day, I topped it with my favorite ridiculous alarm story. Take the stuffing out, but I think I've topped it. Anyone have any idea what the actual F this could possibly mean? And my alarm said wizard box. Wizard box.  No. Nothing in our life.  Wizard box. 8 0 3. 8 0 3. Oh, oh darling! It's 8. 02, don't forget the wizard box at 8.

03. Uh, thanks for that. Had my foot run over by a mobility scooter because I was too busy walking and scrolling Instagram. I just cut my fingernails and thought, Huh, that was fast. While I put the clipper away and went on with doing something else in the black hole of time and space that is my bathroom, a few minutes later I look at uncut nails on my right hand and go, Ah, that's fine. 

Spilled some instant coffee into the drawer with dividers and all the utensils. This was before Christmas. For some reason this morning I decided to say no, I don't like that, and cleaned it all to forensic detail.  All or nothing!  This evening I ordered two items on Amazon. I know it's evil, but it's convenient  to be delivered to me whilst I'm here.

Um, I forgot to change the delivery address before I confirmed the order. Bugger, I managed to cancel it and reorder. I did the same bloody thing again and had to cancel the order again. I walked away from my phone at that point, as I don't think my brain was ready for such a difficult task on a Sunday evening.

No, absolutely. Yeah. Just now, I returned to my car after a quick trip to the department store, only to find it was still running. Apparently, I never turned it off. When my cousin and I met serendipitously in the parking lot, we immediately began speaking catching up. I just walked away, not giving it a second thought.

Even with meds, I still do these things. But at least now I can recognize it's totally not my fault. New hybrid cars hardly make a noise. The impulsive trip to the store, the impromptu cousin meeting, and the language switch simply used up too much of my executive functioning skills. But hey, the car was still there, so it's a win.

It's a massive win. Absolutely.  In a work meeting earlier, I forgot the word honeymoon and said yeah, she's going on that long holiday going after you get married.  I do like those ones when people replace  a commonly used word with a kind of long description of what it actually is. Lost my car on the first day of university.

Massive car park and black Fiesta. Every second car is one. Second day I thought I would be clever. I parked it next to a white car and thought I'd remember. Then it dawned on me, the other car could leave before me. Jesus wept.  I went for a health check up this morning. She did all the things and asked if, along with cholesterol, I could have my VIT, D, B12, checked.

She said she'd find out and messaged me to confirm, but it should be fine. We chatted about some other stuff and then I left. As I walked through reception, I thought I'd be organised and booked my blood test on the way out. Checking with the receptionist that it was all right if I didn't have confirmation yet, which is exactly why we were being tested.

A couple of hours later, I'm telling my mum about the appointment that I booked and some of my blood's done, and she looked at me like I was mad. Didn't they take your blood today though? And pointing the cotton wool stock in my arm where the nurse took my blood five minutes before I went and booked an appointment to take my blood. 

When I called Scouts and Explained to receptionists what happened, because at this point why, uh, why not overshare? She burst out laughing and said, Is that so and so? I mean, yes. Oh bless, I love it. Just forgot how to spell my job title on the work form.  I woke up this morning and eventually tried to brush my hair.

Since I gave up smoking, I've taken up lollipop sucking. Good job too, as falling asleep sucking lollipops may be problematic to my hair.  But at least I'm alive and kicking, and there's a picture with a lollipop stuck in my head! Oh no. Had cancel unused subscriptions in my to do list for over a year. Just gone through and added up the ones I can find.

There's probably still more. 20 subscriptions for stuff I've never used or needed. 130 a month. Wow! Oh wow! Thanks to body doubling and brain magic this morning, I've cleaned my shower. And I feel like a legend, you are. And I've been walking around the flat singing, and when a hero comes along Cause I'm fucking chaffed.

These wins be life. Hell yes. Body doubling really is brain magic. Yeah. So we've got several winners. Got into bed for a quick power nap after work, and after a while I said to myself, I'd best turn that TV off as the chatter is stopping me falling asleep. Only to realise the TV wasn't on and it was my own mind chatter that I could hear. 

Hard relate! So that was the runner up, and this is the winner.  I woke up this morning in my soft bed with my watch detecting a hard fall and calling emergency services. In my sleepy state, I panicked and kept shouting, It was an accident!  Over and over again, thinking this made sense and then hung up. Upon reflecting on this, this was not the best choice of words to the emergency services, who called back five minutes later to state that they were dispatching police and to ask what other services I needed.

I then proceeded to explain my watch had malfunctioned and it was a mistake. Not using the word accident again, dispatcher then asked for my name and in my panic, I stumbled over the question due to changing my name due to marriage. She continued to clarify if I did in fact need services due to stumbling on easy questions, such as my own name. 

What a fun morning. Do not recommend those watches.  What I've just read from the discord community, there is a channel called.  Most ADHD things for them to use anytime they like and I eventually got round to updating discord Which has been a mission that spans several months. We've got there. It is streamlined It's easier to use my most adhd thing of that week was deleting the most adhd thing channel You couldn't make it up.

No, you couldn't it's kind of a most adhd thing, but Like I said, you know, we're Griefy AF, we've had a really tough time, we lost my mum and we lost a couple of other people in your life as well these last few months, so it's been really hard times. And we've been trying to keep our spirits up but also grieve so that we can get through it and not be really depressed.

If you are grieving, you are not alone.  There's a list of resources for support in this episode and there is an episode dedicated to grief a couple of episodes back but big was feeling a bit down and I remembered that as a teenager he really loved roller skating  so I,  I spent a good week trying to persuade him to get rollerblades and he has and he's been rollerblading all over this island.

I have. A 6'8 man on roller skates, you're about 6'10 in them. Yep. Having a lovely old time skating. Pretty big and really fast. Ha ha ha ha! So roller skating for the win, if you, there you go, grief hack. Grief hack. Roller skates. Yeah, what was your most ADHD thing? The one that's really got me is my logic.

So recently, I said in the episode about mum, that I was really sad to have worked on the charity for so long, and for her to have just missed it, basically. Yeah. I, I didn't want on top of that to further gatekeep support from people when they've likely had support gatekept from them. So I wanted to crack on with the Chazza, get the charity up and running.

Um, but at the same time, we've also got the big ADHD fundraiser that Darren and Claire have included us in alongside adhd. uk this year. So, uh, that needs to be up and running because that, that needs to go. So there's lots of things that need to happen all at once. And in my logic, I was just like, well, I'll just get it done because if I just get it all done, then I can have a break.

And actually didn't realize that I put myself in a position where I had an episode, a fundraiser.  And the first ever peer support group on one day,  literally just turn around and go, How did I get here? How did I do this to myself? Tearing my hair out, so anxious I can barely breathe, so many things needing to happen all at once.

But they've all gone out. And I'm so, so pleased that they have. I'm so grateful to Kirstie. I'm so grateful to all of the legends that came to the first peer support group in Aberdeen. I'm so grateful for all of the support with the charity episodes. If you've not had a listen already, please do just a reminder.

The charity was inspired by this podcast.  But it's an entirely separate entity. Um, so I'll use this podcast to promote and fundraise for it and let people know about where peer support groups are happening. To rally up troops for volunteers, if you want to facilitate a group in your area, then get in touch on adhdfplus.

org. uk. And there are many more groups coming up next month. So alongside the second Aberdeen group, there will be a London group, an Edinburgh group, possibly more next month as well, but I'll let you know on here. As well as on adhdafplus.  org. uk And then there will be many more to come as the months roll out But I'm so excited, I'm so grateful And to be honest, I'm a little bit exhausted And I woke up today feeling very, very griefy Because I think within all of it, there wasn't time to grieve So I haven't purposely filled my time to avoid grief But everything happened at once and so I just had to focus and then today I've been been a bit down so I'm really glad that we've got this opportunity to have a giggle.

Yes. Because you know, you have got to have some nice times as well, it can't all be grief. But in any case, two things that are related. to this ridiculous week that I wanted to share. First of all, to do with impulsivity. Now, I really hope that I won't offend him by saying this, but I absolutely have to say it, because you don't know how much I try and hold it in every single time.

So, I've been working with Darren on the big ADHD fundraiser behind the scenes for months on end. We've been in touch. So, I am a massive, well, I'm a massive hun, hence the leopard print. I'm a massive fan of the Queen of Huns. Gemma Collins, the GC, the JC, and uh, every single time Darren's name pops up on my phone, I want to scream aloud, I'm claustrophobic Darren, every time, every time it comes into my head.

So sorry Darren, I had to do that, I've been holding that in for months. I'm claustrophobic Darren. I'm claustrophobic Darren. But yeah, I do show much respect to Darren because Darren has raised so much money for ADHDL.  UK. Last year was ADHD Liberty and this year it's ADHDL. UK and ADHD AF plus charity.

I'm so grateful to Darren, Claire, Beth, Kirsty, all of the team, all of the people that get signed up. And I just am so excited, so excited that they're doing it in leopard print. Yeah. In homage to the leopard print army who have kept this podcast going for, it'll be three years in May. Yeah. What has been learned in that series. 

So, thank you very much for paying homage to our leopard print army, and you can wear any kind of leopard print you like. There's a whole host of different shirts for the Big ADHD fundraiser you can pick. If you would like to register interest, you can do so via the link in the show notes. If you would like to donate, we would be so grateful.

to raise some funds to get our charity up and running and for the incredible work that ADHD adult UK are doing. I have one more. So my most ADHD thing of this week is that the wonderful Rosie Turner asked me on her podcast or so I thought. I didn't read the fine print because I was too busy multitasking and being stressed about all the things that needed to happen whilst grieving.

I didn't realize that I was in fact signing up to a panel. On LinkedIn live. Yeah And  I was in no fit state to be live, do you know what it is it's not that I hate LinkedIn I just Not only am I oversaturated with social media, but when we first started out it was kind of  that LinkedIn was a professional space.

So actually I probably wasn't the person that needed to set up a LinkedIn.  So, um, anyway, so that kind of had my imposter syndrome on overdrive, not even realizing it's been nearly three years in this space and I absolutely should have LinkedIn, but it's live, but also a panel because I kind of hate anything that feels a bit like that.

That's why this podcast is still so chaotic and not very totes profesh because I hate it. No offence to any other podcast, but when you're watching back podcasts, again, using the phrase watching and it's set up like a living room, it feels like Well, I'm not Lorraine Kelly. I don't want to do a Lorraine show.

I want to sit in my kitchen and talk nonsense. So, yeah, so I felt really uncomfortable about it. But then, I saw the lineup. And the lineup was so legendary, with three of my absolute favorite people. Abigail Ajay. Rosie Turner and Sarah Templeton. Yeah. And so I was like, do you know what? Let's have it. So we were, we were live on LinkedIn yesterday.

I will put the link to watch it in the blurb because it really was a fantastic conversation with some incredible people for International Women's Day. So thank you, Rosie, for inviting me and thank you for ADHD for not reading the fine print. Yeah. Or I'd have never have done it, but I know I would have done.

Thank you very much. So have a listen to, have a watch of that. In Auditory Processing Corner this week, I misheard current partner for chiropractor. Yep. Which made an episode of maths particularly confusing. Yeah.  I wanted to end on this one because I actually share it and it's once again where myself and a fellow. 

Auditory processing dyspraxic ADHD.  I've done exactly the same thing again. So ADHD coaching with Olivia who does the accountability squads on the peer support community membership. She says, Despite being fully around when the song was released, it was this month that I realized that the line in DJ. Is not Grandpa Joe, can you hear me? 

It's ground control. Do you feel me? Grandpa Joe, can you hear me? And the most ridiculous part is I've been singing that for 20 years as well. Have you, grandpa Joe can hear. Grandpa, can you hear me?  ? And on that note, I'm gonna leave you in peace. Thank you so much for listening. Wherever you are in the world, please remember, drop the shame.

Let's have a giggle. Lean into the community. Please head to the show notes. To find out more about the big ADHD fundraiser, you are invited to join the cycling crew who are cycling 288 miles through Scotland, England, and Wales, not just in homage to our leopard print army, but to the start of our peer support groups, which are going to be all over Scotland, England, and Wales.

And they are helping fundraise for the charity to get us up and running. So check that out, register interest. And you can donate there and thank you to our Darren. Darren. I'm  claustrophobic Darren.  That'll do.  Yeah, I mean that may just, maybe it's worth mentioning that you should probably check your armoire knobs. 

Just, I just think it's good practice. So if you got a jewellery armoire just check your knobs guys.  Cheers. Stop it.