Most ADHD Things May/June '25

ADHD IS NO JOKE! It's a serious neurodevelopmental condition... so serious in fact, that we need some comic relief. The Most ADHD Thing episodes turn tragedy into comedy; laughing at the things that would usually make us cry.  Eradicating shame, whilst uniting the ADHD adult community and raising crucial ADHD awareness. We are all in this together!

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Transcript

 Hello, I'm speaking very quietly and this first bit won't be the best quality because this little tiny bit's on my phone because the most ADHD thing I've done in recording this most ADHD thing episode is I forgot to give a trigger warning. So even though this is the kind of comic relief episode of all the different kinds of episodes that you will find on A-D-H-D-A-F, we do still touch on some sensitive subject matter that may be triggering to some.

So yeah, please do have a read of the description before listening on, and you will also find a link there for resources to support. So if you are struggling, please know you are not alone, and please reach out for, for help. As I said, this is the kind of humorous, more humorous of the A-D-H-D-A-F episodes.

But I do want you to know that ADHD is no joke. It's a very serious neurodevelopmental condition, and it can be debilitating and it can be dangerous. But that said, seeing as literally all I do is talk about A DHD and live with a DHD every single second of my life. I also need to have some fun. We all do.

We don't really catch a break from a DHD, particularly those of us in perimenopause, menopause, and the rest. It's, it's tough times and I'm grief af, as many of you will already know. So we need to have a little giggle. And the person who makes this podcast even more ridiculous than me with my ridiculousness, is my ridiculous husband big who is joining me for this episode.

I hope you enjoy.

It's been a while. It has. This is the most A DHD things of May and June. So the last one we recorded was March and April. I've had a lot on, we're a little bit behind ourselves, but it's great to come together. And read aloud the most, A DHD things submitted by A-D-H-D-F podcasts listeners on socials and in discord in the private Patreon community.

So the most A DHD thing is a segment from A-D-H-D-F podcast, from d.in which we attempt to eradicate shame and unite the A DHD community by raising a DHD awareness and talking about the things and laughing about the things that would usually make us cry or feel embarrassed. A DHD presents differently in all people.

If you hear something and you think, well, that doesn't sound like a DHD, it is the most a DHD thing to that person. And if you don't hear anything that sounds like your presentation of A DHD, please don't let that dissuade you. I'm joined by my glamorous assistant, the wonderful big. Who is six eight and looks extra giant on this screen because it's angled funny.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't think I do. I think I've just got a bigger head than you. Starting with Instagram fan won. Got the time of the play I was seeing wrong and I had to run from the station and got a massive blister from my new dms. Leopard print by the way, Leo on it. They well worth it, but yeah. No, I feel your pain.

I feel with dms it's like they're fine. They're fine. They're fine. Oh my god. Cut my feet off. Yeah, it just out of nowhere it goes. But yeah, I hope you made it and uh, congrats on your magnificent is slightly painful. Leopard print dms, red punk social, been super clumsy all week. I hear you. Finishing off with tripping over my own toe upon the one foot.

Who knew you could trip over your own toe? No. Well we do now, Liz Day, TQY. After waiting 34 years to go to Pompeii with my mum, I tried to really be really organized printing off all the necessary tickets for our trip to Italy on different colored paper and writing a summary of what color was for what On the day of our Pompeii trip, my 48th birthday, I left all the printed paperwork in a hotel room.

Wow. No. Yeah. Well, you never know. Maybe it was because you were meant to have a. A spontaneous day at Pompeii. Yes. Happy 48th birthday. I've been to Pompei. It's amazing. Have you? Yeah. The man that sticks out. You know, I'll take you out having a lovely time. If you saw it. You're about to be engulfed by flames, you know, maybe you do the same, go out with a bang.

Yeah. I dunno. I think it'd be hard to, to get into the, the mindset when larva is approaching at rapid speed or, or maybe that's his still, he was completely unaware. Oh yeah. Maybe so in the moment. Yeah. He's hoping. Or maybe that was his thing. Maybe that's what he liked was volcano stuff. Who knows? I'm not, I won't K Shame anyone.

Don't. Yeah, don't. King shame the man. Not at all. Emily O'Connell 1 7 4 7. Got my A DHD diagnosis appointment after three and a half years on the NHS waiting list. Yeah, that's good. How did it go, Emily? How did it go? Yeah, I hope it went well. Eleanor, Amy Wilkinson. I dunno where to begin. Yeah. Other do I hun?

How about not forward planning concert travel plans to London because I run purely on vibes. Yep. Chili loves decided yesterday to paint flowers on my garage. Got all the materials and power washed the wall. And now today I'm over that project, A DHD coaching with Olivia. Time blindness, meaning I had to be reminded to leave and catch the last train, but for the best reason really?

Oh, I know what that is. It was from um, A-D-H-D-F podcast, third birthday party. Oh, there you go. Yay. A DHD. Coaching with Olivia for getting half my makeup bag for the party and then I apparently left my hairbrush behind. Then on route to the party somehow ending up in the pop mark. Cute in Oxford Circus as decided I must have a pastel Telly Tubby Essential essentially.

Um, yeah. Only to get RSD when I got the classic po. 'cause I wanted peach po, but felt too bad to sell her. There's a lot happening there. I, for me that's, that's a, I don't really understand what any of what happened. I know there was a hair involved. She was coming to the A-D-H-D-F third birthday party in London.

That's great. Ended up going to this popup event that apparently sold Teletubbies. She didn't buy the one she wanted, but kind of felt too bad to, to send it back is what I'm taking from it. Yeah. Oh, it's a lot of information. Sounds like a nightmare. Olivia,

same. Oh, did that yesterday.

We're not laughing at you Olivia. We love you. I really do love Olivia. She's very, very similar. Olivia to me. Olivia. Which is probably why that made more sense to me than me do. Absolutely. Yeah. You've got every one of it like, oh my God, I probably do the same. I don't. Yeah. No, it's just me and my stupid man brain.

I apologize. Pink pair Bear. A DH. Adhd. My hormones have knocked my meds out this week and I've had a pretty, a very forgetful, clumsy week, but the highlight is probably managing to flip an open can of drink onto the front seat of my car. Oh, eventful jade. Oh, so many things to choose from. Um, I found a bag of Easter eggs.

I stashed away whilst looking for something I lost and still haven't found brackets. I'll find that when looking for something else. Close bracket. But it's all good because we used the chocolate in barbecue. Bananas. I'm coming back to that around the fire. I'm amazing at making. This is the more wholesome end of my A DHD Inness this week win used to egg win.

I really bloody love a barbecued banana. Thank you. Have you ever had one for that information? Have you ever had one? Do you know what? I don't actually think I have. I forgot. I, I forgot about them till just now. Whenever we used to have barbecues with family, you barbecue bananas, they'd cho bananas at the end and then you'd have hot bananas of ice cream, hot banana and obviously chocolate.

But top banana afford chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate. Thank you. Eventful jade. Thank you. Um, forged in the studio. It is been a week to pick a few things. Left my bday present at work.

Can you say birthday? 'cause then my, i I thought she'd got a bday for a present. Left my birthday present at work. Still laughing. That was the most beautiful bunch of forage, flowers, branches. 'cause I popped in office so was out of sight. I could cry. I'm hoping some survive the weekend so I can take them home on Monday.

Well, happy belated birthday and hope your beautiful flowers survive. Um, oh, this one's me. There you go. You can read it. Laura is A-D-H-D-A-F, my wife. You can delete that bit if you want. Moved to London and had a party after nine months on the road. Hadn't had time to unpack so I couldn't find my knickers and had to wear bigs boxes.

The a DH shift podcast, third birthday party. True story, true story. Mouse poke. Lost my purse in little and left my phone in the boot of my car after Retracing my steps driving from place to place. Oh, no, ma. Thread good. I made a comprehensive list of things to do and things I needed to purchase. I forgot where I placed that list.

So I made another. In the process of doing so, I left the room and thought I'll just make another list while I'm in the current room. Went back out of the room, uh, a forgotten new list and found the original list. Just a page behind the second one I made. It's been, it's been almost a full week and I've not bought a thing on the list and can't remember to have the list to even consider the things to do.

I think I need a list to make sure I make a list and remember all the lists. This is why I don't make lists. No, but to each their own. If you enjoy it, if it helps you write all the lists, but that's a lot of lists. That's a lot of this Har Ann dog did her business. I love the business too. Margie, there, there's the dog suit and tie.

Brief case off to do some trading. One of those Zach Morris phones got Zach Morris phone drives an old Ferrari. Oh, I want to buy some sausages. That is very important. Dog business. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. Uh, dog did have business mortified to realize I'd stocked up on poop bags in the other handbag, considered using a ary towel

from my bag to pick it up. Instead, we ran to the pet shop and grabbed a roll of poop bags. The cashier asked me for 75 pink giggled because I never carried cash, and they have three pound minimum spend. Managed to find a pound at the bottom of my bag and ran off before getting my change dog. Then left her ball behind the shop and I had to run back.

Oh, goodness. Me. Should have gone with the sanitary towel or just your hands. No, no. Is that not all right? Uh, you can say that about as well. Thank you. This is for future reference and you're listening back to it. I love you, Jenny DP oh seven. My hyper fixation has me eating tomato and cucumber salad for the last four days straight.

Well, do you know what? If it ain't broke? And there's far worse things to be hyperfocused on. I wonder, so this was written five weeks ago. I wonder, Jenny, are you sick of it yet? Yeah. How long does your food hyper fixation last? Cosmic dragons. Forgot to do my hot water bottle five times while getting distracted.

Yeah. Knee ahead. I waited four months for my nose piercing appointment, had it in my calendar for 1130. Made sure to keep my day free and get up early, so I was ready. I decided to double check the time of the appointment an hour before leaving to realize I had never booked it. I managed to rearrange the appointment for two weeks time where I was then late.

Oh no. I forgotten my ID and had forgotten that I'd lost the card. I was meant to pay you with. Oh gosh. Oh, what a mess. Near ahead. I hope you got there in the end board in the studio. Lost my glasses. Spent an hour and a half looking this morning, but still not found definitely in the house. Found old prescription sunglasses.

So can drive go to work in daytime. At least look like an FBI agent. Did they turn up? Fingers crossed. Dr. Smart Lolly laid up way too late last night. The kids weren't asleep until 9:00 PM Then had to tackle the washing up and laundry. And then I got a rare urge to prepare everything for the morning after all.

Functional mums always seem to swear by it. So I packed lunches, got outfits ready, breakfast things on table, packed my work bag. I think the first warning sign was starting to update the whiteboard sporting a weekly schedule from February that obviously led to toy tidying, resetting the Barbie house hunting around for blue T to refresh the, or with my kids' latest pictures.

Needless to say, we all overslept and had no time to enjoy the breakfast I'd set up, but at least the whiteboard is done. Oh, those random zoomies where you suddenly get all of the inspiration to do all of the things. There's a lot of activities that, and you sort of forget that you are ever gonna be tired again.

Yeah. Say, oh no, this is fine. And then you've had three hours sleeping. You're like, this is not fine, and you are always tidying up my Barbie house. I am. Someone's got to, it gets, gets to my nerves. I like it. Messy. WBDG, the podcast got ready this morning for leading a dog grooming demonstration seminar type event for other dog groomers.

I've only done a few before, so I was pretty nervous. I hadn't planned what I was going to to wear, so I thought I needed something comfortable. Out comes by Lucy and Yak Leopard Dunes. By the way, Lucy of Lucy and Yak is on the podcast in in series three. Mm uh, which actually we're still on series three.

I gave up with series. Mm. Too much pressure. I can't have my hair in my face while I'm working. Out comes my favorite lucky hair, crunchy, also leopard print. I head out the door in the mirror and think bloody hell. I'm totally representing the A-D-H-D-F community today. But it all went well and was a fad day.

So it worked and gave me the Aberdeen Leopard Spirit and Luck. Yes, leopard Print, army Salute You. We were all with you. Wonderful stuff making Mary 26 turned up for my tattoo appointment, 26 hours early. Eager Banana Moana. Finally had my first psychiatrist appointment. He said he didn't receive my parent or partner survey.

I said I didn't receive them. After the appointment, I went back to my emails and they were all the attachments that I had missed. Yeah, yeah, no, that one NDAF embracing life. Had total time blindness and was nearly late to my own 50th birthday celebration. Oh no. That i'd, that I'd organized myself. Oh gosh.

Because I'm also autistic and don't like surprises. I had a massive panic when I realized I had 20 minutes before I needed to pick my mum and, uh, up and was still sat on the sofa in my scruffy clothes with no makeup on and I hadn't ironed my dress. Thankfully, I managed by the skin of my teeth to get there on time.

Yay. Happy. Well, that's good, and I hope you enjoyed your happy 50th. Yes, happy 50th. All a Blackburn procrastinated like a mother ducker all day long. Lost my car keys for four days, found them in a box with my hair dryer. Good. Obviously. Yeah, that's where they belong. Lost my glasses three weeks ago. Still no sign of them.

How Also have lost a pair, a big pair of five kilogram weights inside my house, as with keys and glasses. But these are big. Where the fuck are they? Are they big in the, did you steal them? Yes. Yeah. For those who don't know, I have a, a history of stealing random people's equipment, jewelry, belongings, jewelry.

And then he'll just randomly put them back and I'll put them back. So if you've lost them, yeah. Um, give it a couple of weeks. I'm, I probably would've dropped it off again. That's not real. That's not true. By the way, before you think I'm breaking into people's Yeah. Jokes. Jokes. It, it's a joke. Have you checked inside the hairdryer box for the weights?

Just have a look. Are they in your hands? Are you currently working out? Stacy? G 1, 3 0 6 had my friend round for breakfast. Burnt the toast twice. How? Then walked away from the phone when I was on hold and forgot I was on the phone. And you're a divergent individual. Well, it all started when my wife said I want to tidy up the garden.

Maybe put some willow over the disgusting fence to hide it. I said, well, I need to fix the fence boards and that I'll loose so they don't fall down. And ripped the willow off. And then four hours later I had ripped off every single loose board pressure, washed the entire fence front and back and now I can't feel my arms fence.

Looks like it's brand new wood though. Hope my body recovers overnight because I feel so broken and I still can't do half a job now. This was seven weeks ago, so I hope they've recovered. I hope his, I hope your arms are fine Andy. And that it all got done. Emily O'Connell. 1 7 4 7. Order two. Good to go.

Sushi because my partner was away for the night. Turned up at the wrong yo sushi with 10 minutes left in the window. So had a light run through City Center, Birmingham to pick it up. Made it with about a minute to spare and then took far too many wasabi soy sauce and ginger packets 'cause they were free.

Yay. Yeah. Free for all. The juicy Fig. Saw a post about half term holiday activities for my son and thought, fuck, I forgot half term. Silly Sue, 72 either turned up to my doctor's appointment a day early or took my progesterone tablet instead of hay fever. So walked around like a zombie. Oh no. Marge Alan, the caring side.

I took my boss a Kit Kat because I could see they were really stressed. It's not always negative, is it? No, it most certainly isn't. You're a very kind person. I don't know if that's your A DHD. I think you're just a good, kind soul. Yeah. And a Kit Kat fixes everything. Yeah. But if you want to think that that was your A DHD that did that, that's totally fair enough as well.

That's good. But I just think you're a good egg. Yes, and I'd love a Kit Kat anytime. K Barton one. I'm now on a DHD medication. I'm not supposed to have caffeine while I'm taking it. I forgot to take my meds the other morning, so I figured I could allow myself a coffee. I had, in fact not forgotten to take my meds.

I'd forgotten that I had taken my rate meds. My resting heart rate was 1 0 4. Shit. Harry Lee Cassidy put the sorbet away in the fridge. Yeah. Hopefully a nice smoothie though. And go 71. I had a lovely breakfast catch up in a local cafe with a dear friend. We were so engaged in conversation that we walked out without paying the bill.

I realized as I was driving away and turned around to pay the bill. We both have a DHD, yeah, a DHD teacher diaries. Ignoring the fact I've put 20 reports due Monday, which I've barely started. If I pretend the deadline's not real, it'll go away, right? It will. No. I hope you got there. Lovely. I hope you got there.

Yeah. Uh, eventful. Jade Found yet more Easter eggs stashed in the back of the cupboard. And there's a tiny Christmas tree still on the mantel piece. Merry Christmas and a happy Easter. Merry Easter, Jillian, the civilian. I was using voice dictate on my laptop to send a work email and forgot to switch it off before voice dictating a message on my phone.

When I checked my email halfway through, it not only had half of my WhatsApp message, but it also had typed random stuff the radio DJ had been saying too, on my nearby Alexa. That's hilarious, Jillian, because that exact thing happened to me. But I was on the receiving end of a WhatsApp message from my best mate, which was, um, about 10 minutes of a Radio four documentary on the economy.

Yaz. From Birmingham. Hi Yas Group facilitator. Am I correct? Yeah, for the charity, for the Chaz, for the charity. Um, amazing. So Yas thought I was doing the most by clearing the source graveyard in the fridge, but not labeling. I think that's a great name for it. The source graveyard. Yeah. I thought I was doing the most by clearing the source graveyard in the fridge, but not labeling the current sauce and having to toss them because they were opened when, who knows?

Who knows? Uh, the Scatty baker having a big baking day today and forgot to take bits out the freezer and out the fridge. So not as prepared as I really wanted to be. So you're living up to your name? Yeah. You're on brands. You're on brands. SC Baker, you, you do you, you keep being you a DHD coaching with Olivia again.

Who, who is this nearly paid double in a cafe? Because I didn't remember paying half an hour earlier. Luckily my friend did. Oh God. And she's been celebrating one year of a DHD coaching with pink cake. The cakes are lovely. Congratulations, Olivia. Congratulations and thank you for all of your support and all of your help in the community with accountability squads.

Yes, indeed. Uh, BU six. Spent around 30 minutes talking at my colleague with a without a breath before realizing I'd forgot to take my Aine, A DH ADHD meds, which I'd remembered and forgotten to get out of my bag several times before Sammy J. Thought I put some lettuce in the fridge at work later, couldn't find the lettuce, so asked everyone at work if they had it.

Gave up looking and stormed off. Annoyed only to find it still in my bag. I'd brought it in with me. Brilliant. Furious. Oh, so annoying. Those letters. Thieves, whoa. Caitlyn Galloway TV. Downloaded an app for audiobook so that I can make my horribly boring task bearable. Did it work? Random audiobooks kept showing up in my account and I thought I just didn't know how the app worked.

Turns out I'd been accidentally returning my husband's audio books because I didn't know they were his SJ Hardy Coaching. Packed my bag, remembered my headphones, took the case out to use headphones to discover I had the case. But no headphones. Oh no. Oh no. Nat Wilson. 91. Going from, I'm having a bit of a bad day to I am the worst human ever in a matter of minutes.

Good old RSD. Why are we like this? Well, we know why, but we also know that very often our RSD is just really shit daydreams. I know it's easier said than done because I've been in an RSD spiral myself this week, but uh, yeah, we're, we're in it together. You're not alone in it. Really. Shit. Daydreams Polly underscore Wiseman.

Newly diagnosed, went out to buy a book on A DHD, completely forgotten to go to Waterstones, but came home with two pairs of shoes and a necklace to find a washing machine full of wet clothes I'd forgotten from yesterday. Well, that's, yeah, that's sounds, that's on brand also, isn't it? Red fun, social. Been run down lately.

Sorry to hear that, Chrissy. So I had a cold sore inside my nose and then a style my eye accidentally put the eye ointment meant for my eye up my nose on the gold. Oh, no bless you. Is Chrissy again, this is brilliant. Was discussing what we were having for dinner tonight and instead of asking, do you have any more tot toia wraps, I said, have you got any more of those flaps,

which hopefully led to a lovely evening. Yes, banana Morana. Sorted through thousands of Lego pieces, including making a DIY sifter courtesy of an internet deep dive to help my kid rebuild his 340 piece cream thanks to meds. I actually saw the project through. Yay. Come on, Sydney remain. I'm part of an environmental committee and we needed to change our next meeting from Monday to Tuesday.

Simple, right. I agreed to the meeting time change in a text and even thanked a member for the reminder. She sent me morning off, but did I remember to go to the meeting? No. No. I never made the day change on my calendar. What about the reminder you asked? I thought to myself, wow. Tuesday already then went immediately back to knowing it was Monday and thinking the meeting was tomorrow.

A DHD is like having two brains and neither is right. Oh, I hear you. Calendars and schedules are the bane of my life. Yeah. That's a really good description of A-D-H-D-I think. Yeah. That's how I feel about it, I think. Yeah. And two brains, and neither is right. Yeah. Yeah. But convince one of them is. Do you know what I mean?

That's, that's the thing. I'm convinced one of my brains is right. Oh, I'm convinced both are wrong, but then it is not, and then, oh shit, it's wrong. Anyway. Obviously if you are somebody who, who thinks that their A DHD is their superpower, we are very happy for you. Just to reiterate, we are not just Negging Nora's, but it's our feelings and everyone's feelings are valid.

Yes, majo three UK locked my keys in the boot and couldn't get into the car. Had to call a friend to come and get me and collect my spare key along the way. Or DHD or just a bit weird. By the way, if you haven't listened to this fantastic podcast, I'm on a double double two parter. I always said double ender.

Ah, sorry, John A two and I don't mean you, I mean John, a two parter and then you called me John, but you didn't call me John, you No. Uh, so there you go. Uh, sharp. Laura. Be John's quote. Audio H deal. Just a bit weird. Had major RSD over losing a follower on the podcast, Insta dwelled on it for ages. Tried to work out what I'd done wrong.

Got super self-loathing only to discover after a bit of a snoop that actually it was a botch account that unfollowed. Oh, bless you. Well, listen, um, really sorry to break this to you, but you are gonna have to get used to that because your podcast is phenomenal. Your page will grow and then they'll just keep coming and going and you'll drive yourself insane until one day you don't.

Until one day you don't. It will come. Bel thought I put the washer on before work, and when I came to empty it, genuinely thought for a second. Oh, leaving it in the machine for a while makes it drier. Start putting out the clothes of the dryer before realizing I never pressed start button back in the wash, it went Charro.

Ann was so proud of myself. Organizing a WhatsApp group meetup, added a poll on everything. Did it weeks in advance and even research where we might meet only to find two days before I'm actually on, on the way. On the date. Oh dear. On the date we decided. Oh, bless you. Yeah. Ranny, SVH Read the departure time on my flight itinerary as 3:25 PM instead of 3:05 PM and then missed the flight by five minutes.

Then had to pay 270 Aussie dollars to get on the next flight and wait four hours at the airport for my super high energy or DHD 6-year-old. That is some A DHD tax. Laura is A-D-H-D-A-F. You might know her. Got lost in Elephant and Castle Tube Station. Literally couldn't get out. Must have walked around in circles up and down the same stairs multiple times.

Worst part is I wasn't even meant to be there. I got on the wrong tube. That's good, isn't it? So going along and I. I didn't think I was supposed to be an elephant in Castle, so I got off the tube there, and then rather than go further in the wrong direction, and I kid you not, it was about 40 degrees down there.

Yeah, it was so hot. And then I was like, oh, way out. Turned the corner and ended up in that scene from the Labyrinth with all the stairs going in different directions and basically just walked around sweaty and confused. Yeah. Almost to the point of panicking for about half an hour. And I'm honestly, I'm actually recording this from Elephant and Castle Dance Magic Dance.

I literally thought I would never get out. No, but I did. But you are. You did. And now I'm never going back there. I saw a thing about why it gets so hot down there and it keeps getting hotter. Apparently it's clay soil retains heat, so every year as it gets hotter and hotter, the clay retains more and more heat, so it gets hotter and hotter down the tubes.

Oh, there you go. There you go. That could be nonsense, but just take the word for it.

Kindly neuro went to plan out my content for the week. Broad overview instead. Spent two hours making one thing. Oh, I hear you. Oh, I hear you. But that could be four or six. Sounds like somebody I know sat right next to me. Oh, it's all Darren. Darren, I'm claustrophobic. Darren, um, Darren Smith. 3 1 0 1. Took a trip in the car to a shop eight miles from home, didn't have to go anywhere else.

Unfortunately, part of the route was my normal journey to work. I think you can already guess where this is going at the big roundabout above the M four. All I like to do is go straight, but no mind wandering kicked in and an autopilot. I turn left onto the M four. Oh my god. So I, I'm, I'm getting a bit like, ugh, about this one.

'cause I, I hate when that happens. So add, it's one of the longer junctions and my 16 mile round trip ended up being 35 miles. Oh my God. I did have a get to the shop and only buy what I went there for. So I'll take that little win. Well, yeah. What I have to say to that is, thank goodness that Beth is in charge of the route for the big A DHD fundraiser and they have a support vehicle.

They do. Yes. So please dig deep. Yes. Yeah. 'cause our team are, are working very hard to train a very complicated route with some massive, massive hills in Scotland in particular. Yeah. To cycle 288 miles from air to Rham over just three days to raise funds for A-D-H-D-A-F plus charity, which is the charity inspired by this podcast.

They're separate entity and A DHD adult uk. So please dig deep. We've got 11 legends cycling all that way. And I mean, fair few of them are from the patron community. So they're my nearest and dearest and you know, I know that none of them have cycled that far and one only very recently bought a bike. So please dig deep for a very good course.

Yes, yes, definitely. And to motivate our legends, um, and especially the wonderful Darren Claustrophobic Darren.

Yeah. Can we do the rest of this? Like the gc gc? I could try it, but probably won't. He won't ever getting any of this candy.

I can't think of any other general music. No. I'm not really a GC knowledgeable GC person. No. And obviously no of her, and I think she's hilarious. Yes, but only because you and Roe would do impressions of her and stuff. I need to get Roe on to do proper juicy impressions. You do. She really does do it very well.

Yeah. Well, anyway, uh, Darren, I'm glad you, um, we digress. You got off the M four eventually. I hate, that's one of my biggest hates in life is like I've missed a turning and now I've got a, just an extra mile or two, just, just destroys my world. But yeah, another eight miles on top, which. End me. Oh dear. Uh, Corey, Jade Brown overshared with someone I barely know.

Oh, I hear, oh my God. That day. Isn't it awful? Yeah, I hear that. But it's also beautiful. And then the overshare hangover as well. Yeah, the RSD, it's when they, it it is. Nicole did that brilliant bit in, oh, actually, whilst we're on the topic, so Nicole's first Edin fin show, she did, she did the brilliant section of, uh, the overshare with the glazed over expression.

And they're looking at you. Mm-hmm. And they're looking at each other like, is she ever gonna stop talking? Yeah. Is, is that appropriate? And Nicole's most a DHD thing, which I think probably should be the winner of the whole thing, is that for the third year in a row. She has signed up to do another fringe show, even though she always says she'll never do it again.

Yeah, that's pretty, uh, yeah. Yeah. Standard. I can't wait to see it. What is it called again? Exposure Therapy. Exposure Therapy. Go and see on Nicole at Edinburgh Fringe. This, this August book doubling lots of green seedlings. Growing on my new allotment. Yay. Except I didn't keep a note of what I planted to wear.

So it could all be weeds, not vegetables. What carefully? 10 nettles and down the lines for the next month. Still gardening. NDAF. Embracing life. I went to put my phone in my pocket on my walking trousers and felt it slide down my leg. Turns out I'd unset zipped the detachable leg instead and dropped my phone down there instead of putting it in my pocket.

I do love an a detachable leg. Very partial. What a pantaloon. Zip. See ya now. This is now This is a pair of shorts. Go with it. Wisley finally rediscovered the A DHD Self-assessment book. I started over two years ago. Way congrats. Good. Girl Cs went into my kitchen to cook a chicken in the oven, cleaned three cupboards inside and out.

Wash dishwasher and kitchen units. Took hours. Didn't turn the oven on. Oh no. I've got an overwhelming o chicken pie. I will indulge your urge. Thank you. Not by cooking it, but No, we go get some pie. We can go get some pie. Happy tat. Finished the day's. Happy tat workshops at Glastonbury on a Saturday.

Headed out to try and see everything and everyone. I was on a total mission, didn't get to see anything. Had major fomo and ruined the whole evening for everyone else by crying and going to bed early. FYI after Sundays last workshop. It was the best night ever because I went with the flow relaxed and the fun.

Found me. And we had an awesome last night at Glastonbury. Yay. Well that's good. That's the way to do it. Organized fun, can sometimes be too much pressure. Go with the flow. Glad you, uh, let gla Glastonbury guide you. Yeah. And hopefully see you there. Next, not next year, year after 27. 27, yeah. Yes. Sophie Virga, VRGA.

My friend gave me a little pin and I specifically put it somewhere, I would not lose it. I do not know where it's, yep. Rich Forbes underscore mindset coach. So when I turned my coffee machine on, I can't start launching into the intro of the Boys Are Back in town, because when it starts, it basically sounds like the same note as the start of that song Do.

That's really funny.

I've been, we've both been singing, um, different parts of the same song and for no good reason. So Bob Mortem has slender people from have the last laugh. So I keep singing Tomorrow I will kill again this time in Donna Girl. I just round and round in my head for weeks. We, in fact, it must be months. That's, yeah.

And what's the line you always sing Tomorrow I'll kill again this time in. Damn it. It was there, isn't it? Well, don't get it back into your head. No, thank you. Dungeness. Oh, that was it. Simon. I'm in Dungeness. Oh, Paula. P Triple X 2013. Sat down to watch a movie at home, grabbed my crisps and somehow managed to empty the entire bag all over the carpet.

How? Well, I don't know Paula, but we very much look forward to seeing you for the Blackpool style Assembly. Oh, August the 16th and 17th. Please come along. It is the Blackpool Weekend extravaganza raising funds for School of Street and A-D-H-D-F plus charity. Stef and I of A-D-H-D-F Emporium are the grand finale closing the show of a lot of incredible neurodivergent designers and all sort of upcycling to combat fast fashion.

One ticket gets you into both days, so the Saturday fashion event and the Ferny, uh, after party on the Sunday at which I'll be playing a DHD Bingo. And there'll be karaoke and all sorts. And, uh, that night the girls are also doing the Midnight Cabaret club. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. A funny girls after party. So we'll both be there.

There's a big crew of community members going and I hope to see you there. Oh, so Blackpool style assembly, Lincoln Bio. Yeah. And hopefully we're gonna get one of those, uh, beer bikes. Yeah, that'd be good. And pedal the prom. I'll be there. So that's good, isn't it? That's really good. Kay. 2018 started my A DHD meds and hyperfocused over every symptom now have imposter syndrome.

If my symptoms are correct or if I have made up a DH adhd. The imposter syndrome is real, so that's really common, right? Yeah. For, for that to happen. Yeah. Because you had that, I, and you've talked about it before in your own episodes with people you've talked about it in. It's really, it's the most common thing.

Like that should be one of the major things that they tell you when you get diagnosed is when you walk away from here. You are gonna believe that I've got it wrong or that you, you've, you've over egged it. That's what I thought. I've hand this up. Yeah. There's no way that this is right. And, and the reason being, and obviously I can't speak to for everyone, but you know, it's been estimated that an A DHD child, here's 20,000 more negative things than a neurotypical child by the age of 10.

Mm. So all of this getting it wrong, the embarrassment, the being told off that all these negative things, they destroy our self-esteem and self-worth, and we just think we're used to some rubbish. So, you know, especially at, at my age, I was 38 when I got diagnosed, you are not just gonna be like, oh yeah, no, I'm not actually a useless, lazy piece of shit, unreliable person that can't do anything.

Right. It's just this condition. No, you know, I'm three years down the line with this and I. Although I do accept my neurodivergence, I even, I still have some internalized ableism now holding myself to unrealistic standards or being unnecessarily cruel to myself if I do something that's clearly very A DHD.

Yeah. Yeah. Even a person who spends day and night advocating for A DHD and raising awareness, we are not just gonna get over our, get off our own case overnight. Yeah. We've got daily work to do to. To overcome that. So yeah, the imposter syndrome is real. After Robin 94, forgotten everything that's already happened this week that I made myself a cup of tea, sat with it in front of me on the desk.

Proceed to forget. It exists for two hours till it's stone cold, warm in the microwave. Take one sip. Do it again. Yeah. About how many times, how many times? Circus Chrissy, when to ask my teenager if they liked the soup, but by the time I got into her room, had completely forgotten what I wanted to ask her.

I told her I forgot. Must have left that thought back in the kitchen. She laughed and said, oh, so it's you. I get that from, got back to the living room. Remember that? Remember so shouted it to her. She did like the soup. Well, there you go. That's really good. You've got similar, very like-minded by the sounds of it, and similar taste in soup.

It's important. A DHD Perry Punks. I had 17 brilliant ideas that would surely make us millionaires, but forgot to write 'em down. Oh, well, too late and muffed it. They'll be back. They'll be back and all at once, mass poke was majorly late to a psychiatrist appointment due to getting my car wedge between a wall and a metal post whilst trying to maneuver my car around a narrow lane where I parked my car.

I had to get the neighbor to get me out. Oh no. Oh no. Sal's 1986 got my a DH ADHD diagnosis. Thursday. No longer feel like a tourist. I have a community. I can feel like I belong. Um, you've helped me so much with the process of Laura. Ah, that's very kind. Oh, bless you. Well, you were always part of this community.

Self-diagnosis is valid. Yeah. We're all here to support each other, but massive congrats and welcome to this brand new chapter of your life. Yeah. Where you, you know, you're no longer an unreliable narrator. You, you have the answers and I hope the support is close at hand. But we're all here for you. The Scatty baker is back, forgot to add eggs to bake.

So excited for the end result and it was, um, disappointing to say the least. Oh, scatty Baker, she's right on brand again. Scatty Baker Scatty with the bakery. Oh yeah, well, oh no. I've made some iced fingers, but I put chocolate on them instead of us. I've liked my own fingers. Have eyes my own fingers. Oh, ETT Baker, we're not taking the Mick.

Please. Will you send us a delicious bacon please? Bacon Bake. Bake good s Bacon really wants a pie. Yeah, me too. This is your fault. Sketty Baker. I really want a chicken pie. I dunno why I am blaming you. You, you haven't done anything. Not your fault. It's not your fault of your pie. Gluttony. Um. No. Yeah, no, that's definitely on me.

Ranny. SVH missed my kids' first cross country race, which they won because I didn't read the form the school sent home all the two posts they put on the school app properly and got the time wrong. Oh bugger. Donny be good. Instead of putting my morning ground coffee into my caper, uh, sleepy, Donny put it straight into her mug and poured water and sweat and then realizes when to drink it.

Why? My mouth was full of coffee bits. Oh yeah. It's horrible as well, isn't it? It's really grainy, gritty geeky roo. So our Ruth, who is co-facilitator of the London A-D-H-D-F plus peer support group, she booked an Airbnb for 12 people instead of four. And we had a bloody lovely time 'cause it had sea views over Brighton and we went to see, uh, Laura Belvin knee deep in life at Cedia and it was brilliant.

Yes, you did. And it was a great place. Yeah. And well found. Thank you Ruth John on the score hill. So that is John Hill of all DHD or just a bit weird. Oh. Yes, it's John again. Yes. Posting on different accounts. Sneaky. Sneaky John, uh, got in the shower and washed my hair and then forgot why I was in the shower and started washing my hair again.

Double clean. Double clean. Like the double end. That's the double end from before. Oh, serendipity. It just, I never thought I would say double end on a podcast. I've said it multiple times now. You said it loads now. Yeah. You said it too many times. Anything could get reported to off com. No, you couldn't. You can say double end as much as you like.

Oh yeah. So, uh, this is me as A-D-H-D-F Emporium. So when I bought A-D-H-D-F emporium to lose self-love unleashed in Bristol, I thought I would make the last train home and I didn't. Mm-hmm. But it was getting later and later. And so at the very last minute. I just booked this random place to stay, but it was absolutely terrifying.

Yeah. I remember. And so I thought that I was like, it was, I was still having like envisions of like ho hostel. Yeah. Or something like that. So I basically barricaded myself in the room. It was absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. So literally Steve Case, I moved all of the furniture and barricaded myself in the room.

Yeah, I was fine. Good. It was great and well worth it. And I'm very excited because I'm not just bringing the Emporium, Steph and I, but I am speaking doing A-D-H-D-F Bingo at Lou's self-love unleashed camp in Bedford. Is it August or July? I don't know, but it's gonna be amazing. And I can't wait. I wouldn't say it's July.

I think it's July. And she's actually given me a discount code. So how am I gonna remember to do this? I'll remember when I edit. Yes. So I will put the discount code in the link in, in the show notes to come along. 'cause it's gonna be an incredible, incredible weekend of self-love, empowerment, incredible badass bitches like Lou, myself, all sorts of incredible people are gonna be there and we're gonna wild swim and do fashion shoots and all sorts.

It's gonna be amazing. So come along. It, and you won't have to barricade yourself in anywhere because you'll be well looked after. You will laina Sin started the day, so sure. I wouldn't be late for therapy this time after being late. The last three times drove almost an hour from my boyfriend's place, but figured I had time for a quick coffee Oh dear.

With my mom at home and to grab my meds at the pharmacy. Even though I'd pre-ordered, it felt like the guy was taking forever. I swear I, he was hiding them on purpose. Meanwhile, I kept refreshing the route therapy. Panicked. Bolted out, nearly crashed into the door and took part of the carpet with me on the way out.

Must have looked like I really needed those meds. Yeah. Oh gosh. The happy nugget booked the table and line in the brewery for five 30 downstairs. Pizza slice emoji, and then six 30 upstairs drinks emoji. Got there and found out I hadn't completed either booking to instructions. Oh, I hope you still went out and got your pizza and cocky slice it just like sarcastic self-care.

I was last week years old when I realized I've been driving around for three months with an expired registration sticker on my car license plate. Fortunately, I had actually paid the registration and had the sticker this whole time, but I still hadn't put it on my car. Guess I should do that. Please check back to hold me accountable.

Seriously, that worked. Hashtag a DH ADHD tactics. Yes. So come on then. Have you put the sticker on? Yeah. Let us know. And if not, this is your cue. Stick your sticker on now. Stick your sticker on Buddy w Pink Lily Book an Early Father's Day lunch and tell everyone the wrong effing time. So we were all late and our table had been given away.

Randy Ru lost my phone for half the day. My husband later found it in our city trash bin outside the house. These ones are Facebook. Zara, Louise went shopping and got sidetracked as the veg scales weren't working in the aisle I was on. Found another set, an aisle over and totally forgot to buy my most of, most of my fruit and veg as I just continued shopping from the other set of scales.

Following my usual route around the shop, Anna lead, I put my car keys down to put my shoes on. That was yesterday and I still haven't found them. The silver lining is that I didn't have my shoes on, so they're definitely in the house somewhere. Oh, one of those mysteries. You were sneaky with that one, darling.

Yeah, I was. I'll put them back in a bit. Marianne Kelly laughed while packing those bags that you suck the air out of remembering how Laura couldn't remember the name for them, could not then remember the name for myself, so, so my brain said dry roasted. Relate this story to the community the next day and couldn't even remember what Laura's version was.

Still can't think of what the actual bag is called. Suck pack Hoover down air fryer. So I said freeze dried. Freeze dried. But obviously we're talking about vacuum packing. Vacuum pack. Yeah. But I do like suck pack Hoover down air fryer, I think. Well, that's sort of what they do, isn't it? Yeah. All the same.

Freeze dried, dry roasted. Suck bag or suck pack. Um, Anna Foster drove off with my work boots on my car roof. Luckily they didn't fit me anyway. I left it too long to tell my boss, dear, oh, so this is me hyper focus hard on trying to figure out what three songs I would pick if I could only listen to three songs for the rest of my life as if my life actually depended on it.

Yeah, but it's a big question. It sounds like something you would do. 'cause really it can't just be, and I asked in the community and lots of people in interpreted it in lots of different ways because obviously we do all see things differently. But my interpretation wasn't like, what are the three soundtracks to your life?

That's not the question. And what are your three favorite songs? Not the question I'm saying, you can only listen to three songs for the rest of your life. So to me, that means I can see I'm still passionate about this. Yeah, you are. Yeah. So to me that means you have to find three songs. That perfectly encapsulate the whole spectrum of human emotion that you could possibly experience for the rest of your life.

It better be me. I can't actually remember what they were, but I really went to town with it. You really did. Point is it's not meant to be your favorite artist. Mm. Is meant to be three songs. Yeah. If you could only listen to three for the rest of your life. So yeah. Anyway, if you wanna indulge me and hyperfocus your tits off and answer that unanswerable question, do let me know.

'cause I think it is fascinating. Do you know yours? Yeah. Um, the Teenage Mu Ninja Turtle song, um, the Turtle Power, um, star trekking. Do they have more than one star trekking? Yes, they have a few. There's a B side. Start, start trekking. And it's a flip up, toss up between Ghostbusters or, um, it's gotta be Superman.

Or Superman. Yeah. So you can do the spray. What's the dog? Comb your hair. Comb your hair. That, yeah. That, that would be my three because what else are you gonna do on Desert Island Apart from like the BLO in Pompeii. And you need a soundtrack? You need a soundtrack. Carrie Lee Peaks done the shopping online and forgot to submit, sat waiting for it last night and it didn't turn up.

Oh, no. Gemma Clack sat at my dressing table after showering and saw a clear bottle of what I thought was cuticles. So slathered my nails and cuticle fingers and toes, only to realize I was rubbing it in that it was actually a bottle of clear nail varnish. It was really messy. That's horrible. Slathering it on as well.

Uh, Melanie Muller Choki. Great name. Thought I'd bought latitude tickets but had been distracted during payment and forgot to check them out. Another, another check out story. Okay, so these are from the Patreon peer support community online. So they are anonymous. I was telling my A-D-H-D-A-F 90-year-old aunt that I kept keep losing my crutch.

She immediately piped in saying that this happens to her all the time. She's constantly losing her cane. So here to say, in case there is any doubt, we definitely do not outgrow A DHD even at 90. Yes. I've lost my bus pass 10 times in the last year. Every time I call the travel center, they list all the dates I've had it replaced.

Just had a panic that I'd lost it again. Finally found it tucked inside an empty packet of migraine medication that I was about to throw away. Technically, that is a win. Yes, open my clock app last night, turn all of my alarms back on after a week away, only to discover that I've had a timer running for 575 plus hours.

I work this out to be just short of 24 days. Not sure how beneficial that has been for my battery life. It's quite a long time then, isn't it? I filled up my reusable cup with hot water for tea, couldn't open the door to the loo, held the cup in my arm, but the metal bit was very, very hot, and it burned my arm.

Oh, oh, well, I guess this is on brand. I spent another night sleeping, not sleeping on the couch. Last night I had a psychiatry appointment scheduled for 10:30 AM I realized I didn't have time for a shower before leaving the house. I decided to have one later instead, which I'm kind of proud of. I, of course, left the house late and stressed for being late.

I turned up at the center at 10 32 for my 10 30 appointment only to find out the appointment is tomorrow. Oh no. Well hopefully you got to there the next day. Yes. Clean and washed having slept in your bed. Ande. Yeah, exactly. Fingers crossed. Emitting your tax return in June as it was either now or putting off in January and worrying that you owed the tax plan.

Thousands remains to be seen. It is actually right as it was just dyscalculia, me and Chap GPT assisting. There's a high chance that HMRC will be rooting for reward. Yeah. Bought myself a lovely m and s salad for tea on the train journey home from Edinburgh where I've been for work today. Forgot to pick up a fork to eat it with Honestly.

Yeah, every time. My fridge was beeping last night so I turned it off for 30 seconds. That turned into 10 hours 'cause I forgot to turn it back on till this morning. Oh no. Good news is there's now no ice in the fridge. Think I caught it in time. The A DHD tax is real. We are camping and I bought a shiny new soda panel to charge massive power bank.

I have for the van. I decided to try and reposition the van onto the levelers by myself and managed to not just knock down the brand new solar panel. I just tucked up, but drive over it several times. Oh no. Before I even started, I said to myself, I need to move the panel before I do this. Why? Why? Why do I manage to fuck things up so royally?

I'm about 90% sure it will never work again. Today was its first outing. No. At some A DH, ADHD tax and a half. Yeah. I set myself a task of deep cleaning in the living room two hours later, and I spent the entire time hyper-focusing on the task of freeing toys that were wedge beneath behind the radiator result.

One sweaty me. Five pieces of Lego, three Hot Wheels cars. One line, one line S and one leopard. Well, on top of what a win that is. Somebody went on to say, I have a special skill of retrieving things behind the radiator. I'm hope my mobile, which is quite common for neurodivergent people. Um, which for me means I can get my arms, wrist, shoulders in some pretty unusual positionings, meaning I can get stuck items out from behind radiators.

And the person who's hyper mobile too, I'm a bit hypermobile as well. You're a bit hyper mobile. Yeah. Yeah. I've got bendy backs to ostrich legs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Quite creepy sometimes. Yeah. I can unhinging my jaw and eat a giant egg. That's not true. E sorry. I am lying so much. You dunno. You know what you tried.

No, I have tried. That's why I say no, that's definitely not true. I'm not, I'm not half snake, half man. Contrary to popular belief.

I just paid 160 Euros for an annual subscription to a breathing slash meditation app because I thought I could get the free trial again if I signed in with a different email atlas. At least this app has had the best exercises so far, and it also has movement and other things, so now I just have to use it.

Yes. I hope you're using it. Getting off the bus. I said, bow, I love you to the bus driver instead of Thank you. Perfect. Unfortunately, it's not the first time I've done that. I've also been known to say thank you to the ATM machine. My husband and I went to Lanzaro. He took jumpers in North Africa, no T-shirt.

I took no swimsuits and no sandals. We both had to purchase beach towels locked out of our Airbnb. Managed to fuck the lockbox where the key goes. Luckily the people came and rescued us quickly. The frozen chicken nuggets didn't completely defrost. That is lucky. This is me again. I discovered that I've been mixing up who was facilitating the morning body doubling.

Yeah. In weeks and weeks worth of weekly updates. Then I genuinely couldn't figure out to turn my camera off and on Zoom, not like I haven't done it. 50 for squillion times. Then I misread a message in the chat box saying, leave so and so to work, do not disturb, and instead chatted away to her completely disturbing her and ignored somebody else who for some reason I thought was the person I was meant to not be disturbing.

Yeah. Never a dull moment. Good morning. Never forgetting my R Act to carry things whilst using my walking sticks, but discovering how much you can fit in your bra. There is a brilliant picture of about 10 items shoved down a bra. There's a lot. Yeah, it's great. Where the fucking fuck is the fucking Hoover and my fucking AirPods?

My fucking spare keys for the fucking dog walker. Who knows? Who knows? I hope all of the above turned up. Yeah. I started putting bits in my bag in the shop yesterday before I realized I needed to put them in my basket and pay for them first. Yeah. Years ago I walked out of Tesco's with three pairs of jeans hanging from my trolley.

I paid for the rest of the shop, just not them. Somebody else said, yeah, I've stolen a smoothie in airport, a bag of veggies at the supermarket, and probably some other things. I always paid for other things, just not whatever was hanging out in unexpected places is the opposite of A DHD tax. The universe is just attempting to rebalance.

Mm-hmm. This is my best lost glasses ever. Wearing glasses with another pair of glasses in mouth. This one's me again. My most A DHD thing is that I only just managed to overcome the imposter syndrome and cringe to fill in the details for my National Diversity Award nomination profile because why? It's the last minute.

So I didn't get shortlisted, but is my second year nominated? It is such an honor to be nominated with so many amazing people doing incredible things, massive imposter syndrome. And I just wanna say, if you nominated me, I'm so incredibly grateful. I did get to read all of the nominations and they literally had me howling, crying.

So thank you very much. If you nominated me and congrats to all the. Shortlist people. Yeah. Instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing today, I've been trying to write risk assessments, which I find thoroughly boring and always struggle to do. I organized all the remaining gusto ingredients that I have accumulated over the past few months.

We did that with Hello Fresh. We used to have a cupboard full of extra odds and salts. Extra odds and sods. Yeah. When I'm like, don't tell me what to do, I will not follow the recipe. Yeah.

Well, I just cracked two eggs to make lunch. I noticed that the second egg I cracked did not have an egg inside and was an empty egg. Confused. I looked in the fridge to see if the egg, white and yolk were in there. The egg had actually fallen into the bowl and there were two uncooked eggs in it. Oh dear.

Signed up to take part in the charity bike ride without owning or having been on a bike for years. I now own a very snazzy new bike, so I better start practicing. You had better start practicing and she is. She is practicing. And if you've listened to the episode with some of our big A DHD fundraising cyclists, you will already know who that is.

And if you haven't had a listen, please do go back and have a listen. It's called A DHD and teamwork, and it is the why behind. Why these people have signed up to do this enormous challenge. Yeah. And if you can donate anything, even the smallest amount, it would be so gratefully appreciated by myself and all of the team at A-D-H-D-F plus charity and all of the team at A DHD adult uk and of course the cyclist themselves.

And if you aren't able to donate, please will you share the fundraiser? Yes. Perhaps somebody else could donate your work or similar. So somebody was quite tired after a DH ADHD third birthday party in London, in which I found a bar that was wall-to-wall leopard print. Yes, you did. It was an absolute hunt fest.

I was going away for the weekend. First thing just arrived, realized I've left my luggage. Oh no. Oh, no. I hope that, that wherever you went, they looked after you and thank you for coming to the party. It was a special one, and I've got more planned. Oh, just your weight. Just your weight. This is my winner.

Yep. Somebody's in the supermarket. Yep. They're wandering around the wine section. I noticed that a strand of yarn from my crochet had snagged on the corner of a shelf, so I followed it back around the gin and vodka back through the wine section, like a string through a maze and round the corner to find that someone had walked through it with a trolley.

So I had to snap the yarn and free the trolley so they could go about the shop, followed it even further out the door. Raveling it up as I go. Only to find another disgruntled shopper holding a ball of wool with it wrapped around her ankle, snapped it quickly to free. The random lady shopper who explained what she found, it transpired.

My ball of yarn had escaped from my tote bag under my arm, ran down the slope and was making a break for the girl park while I was wandering in store in the, in another distraction. I sniggered the shopper with the trolley was amused. The lady outside, not so much. However, I did try to suggest it was likely the best anecdote of the day.

Yes, and it's almost a DHD thing winner. It is. So thank you all for sharing. If we didn't get yours read, sorry about that. There's just so many and, and we try our hardest. So please don't RSD and please do keep commenting on the most A DHD posts on socials on A DHD AF podcast on Insta so that we can keep reading and just so that you can connect with people within the community.

I understand that. My patron community, it isn't free so not everyone can afford it. So I still want people to be able to connect with people like them, for validations to connect the community. So yeah, just speak to each other in the comments. I would love that. And thank you so, so much for sharing. So big.

What is the most a DHD thing you've done this week? I booked a hire car to go and do some jobs basically. 'cause we don't have a car anymore 'cause we live in London. I turned up Saturday morning early thinking I'll just pick the car up and I'll go with it. And turns out that you have to return it 24 hours later.

So it was like half nine, 10 o'clock. I had to bring it back to half hour, 10 o'clock the following day. And the place like, yeah, we don't open till 11 on on the Sunday, so you're gonna have to have it for two days or wait until like 12 or 11 o'clock. And I just sort of went, no, it's all over for two days.

I didn't even think I could wait for an hour and a half and not spend another day's rental on the car. I just went, yeah, that's fine. 'cause I was sort of embarrassed and a bit. Like, yeah, whatever. And I wanted to go with the car. So I ended up paying for two days with the high car. We did enjoy it though.

We did. We went on a little mini break and it wasn't loading rotting de, it wasn't loads of money. It wasn't, 'cause I've got a thing, I've got a discount. But yeah, we, it was a bit more. But we did, we had a nice time. We went to rotting de we went, we went to Rotting de, which is near writing. We went to Beachy Heads, we went to Beachy Head.

So yeah, it's a win actually. It is a win. It was a win. And yes, luckily not too expensive, but still I felt a bit of shame. My most A DHD thing is when it came to the Norwich Show of Lou and Newland self-love unleashed. For some reason I woke up that morning. Well, we know why, because I'm still grief af obviously.

'cause my mom passed away six months ago and the grief train just rolls into town whenever the hell it wants. And it rolled into town that morning despite being so excited. To go to Norwich to see her in Newland, to be part of the amazing show. See Steph. We also got married there at the Flint room. It's all people that I love and do.

Brilliant thing. A D, that's a different time. Yeah, not that time. You didn't get married to Steph there? No, no. I was really excited about it right up until the morning, and then the grief train knocked me down and I basically completely blipped out and I was like, I can't go. I'm not going. I'm not going.

I'm not going. I could not get my thoughts in order. I couldn't calm down. So anyway, Steph messages like, have you got this or that? And I'm like, I can't come. I can, I'm not gonna go. Completely panic. And eventually managed to get myself together, managed to pack the bag, but literally at the very last minute.

So I ran out of the house to catch the train and had to get an Uber because I was running late. But then the Uber guy's like you'd be quicker running. So I get out of the Uber with the biggest suitcase, like a suitcase as big as me, full of A-D-H-D-F emporium stuff, and had to sprint full pelt down.

Bishop Skate. Yeah. Still crying. Yeah. Yeah. The most dramatic scene you've ever seen. Oh, God. Get onto the, get onto the platform. Run down the platform, get onto the train, change your clothes behind me, and off we go. Yeah. And so I literally made it with literally two seconds to spare, sit down on the train and just howled, crying all the way to Norwich.

Two hours. Unnecessary. Unnecessary, unnecessary drama. I don't really, I would've hated to be on that train. Imagine it. Oh God, it comes. And I was, I was literally purple. I used this purple crying, sweaty because I'd ran sweaty crying Purple idiot. Yeah. Oh darling, I'm sorry. That I know. And then I got there and had the best time ever, obviously.

Yeah, exactly. But that's grief. And if you are grieving siento, you are not alone. I hear you. Yeah, it is very inconvenient. And it is fucking horrendous as, as explained in, uh, in the A DHD and grief episode because not only do the symptoms overlap of A DHD and grief, they can exacerbate each other. Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's been a tough old time.

Been hard, haven't it darling. It's been really hard, but have been going to grief support group and the new normal charity, which is helping. Yeah. And as many of you will have seen, I had a really wonderful glimmer. So let's end on a glimmer. I went to my first grief support group, and you will have seen this on, on social media if you follow me personally.

Laura's A-D-H-D-A-F. And I came out and I was proud of myself, sad, but proud of myself. I get this really physical symptom of grief where I feel like I'm being squeezed around the throat or pushed down on the chest. And I walked out, got my phone out to tell big that I've, I've done it. I've left, I'm now on my way home.

I did the group and I stopped exactly where I was, stood for no reason whatsoever. Looked to my left. And exactly where I was standing was an absolutely enormous mural of a hummingbird. And my mom is from Trinidad to the land of the hummingbirds. And one of the last things we did together was go and see the hummingbirds in Tobago altogether.

Yeah. So it was just the most serendipitous thing ever, and it was like proper magic. And uh, yeah. So that's my glimmer. So believe of that what you will. But it was a really nice thing because actually in the group, people have been talking about how they were seeing their loved ones in their dreams, and I hadn't.

So it was the first time that anything like that's happened. Yeah. So that was really nice. So yeah, support groups for the win. And speaking of support groups, we've had some amazing support groups this month with the charity, and there are more coming up next month. So if you are in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, what have I missed?

Birmingham. Birmingham. And there's one coming up very soon. Oxford Oxford is coming right up. If you are in or around any of those places, please do go to the website, A-D-H-D-A-F ps.org.uk and register interest so we can send you email reminders. And if there aren't any A DH DF plus free peer support groups in your area, we'd love you to apply to start one.

Mm. You can volunteer to start your own. You can apply via the website that I just listed where you can also apply to become an ambassador. And we don't care about influencers. You can only have one follower if you like. We don't care. We would love you to apply to be a ambassador or to volunteer any free time that you have.

If that's five minutes or five hours. The support groups are going from strength to strength. It really is so wonderful to see. And I had such an amazing time this month. At the Manchester. No, Birmingham at the London and Birmingham support groups playing A DHD Bingo seminars. Yeah. But I'm going to be going to Camp VC very soon.

Yeah. And not for, it will be a bingo seminar, but it'll be more like a show, which means there will be karaoke. If you are going to Camp vc, please do come and see my show. You have to get an app and book in, and it's A-D-H-D-A-F Bingo. So come along, I'd love to see you there. And of course, the big bingo show will be happening as part of the two day black pull extravaganza for the start assembly.

So grab a cyber ticket via Link Bio and please do support our cyclists. The big A DHD fundraiser is coming right up and lose self love Unleash camp. I will put the discount code in the blurb. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. If you have, please let me know in the comments or please write a review. Do you know what?

I haven't had a review for months on end. I would love a review. Please write one, not just because it makes me feel nice, but actually the more reviews and the more comments and the more shares means that more a ADHDers can feel. Like they're not alone in their struggles. Yeah. And can and become part of our leopard print army of listeners.

And, uh, yeah, it just helps raise more a DHD awareness. So please do help others that need a laugh, need some camaraderie and some validation by sharing this episode. Uh, hitting those dials, writing a review or all of the above Yeah. Would be much appreciated. But all of the above. All of the above. Let's get you a pie, darling.

I'd love a pie. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. I'm glad I could tell one of my best jokes. It was really good. And, um, and, and your three songs for a desert island. Yeah. Turtle Power. Do you know the first thing star tracking I ever bought was do the barkman on vinyl. Oh my God. That's also a good one.

I can sing it word for word. Yeah. Let's save that for the next month's episode Yo, hey whats happening. Dude, I'm a guy with a rep for being rude. OK I'll stop now. No carry on. No. Right. Big love. Thank you so much for listening and uh, yeah, be kind to yourself. Be kind to each other. Let's play bingo. LEOPARD PRINT ARMY!. Leopard Print Army! 

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