I was diagnosed with ADHD at the end of last year, yet another late in life AFAB diagnosis. I just got prescribed some medicine for it last Wednesday and I feel, for the first time, like a functioning person. In fact, I can even stay awake all day without a thousand naps now!

I am so thankful I was able to get a screening quickly and that the diagnosis came almost as quickly. It was a long road to getting medicine, not because of the shortages, but because I had other medicine that was causing me problems. But once that was sorted I was prescribed my new favorite thing: concerta.

I have no adverse side effects (so far) and I can focus! I can not only start, but also finish tasks. There is no dread, no inability to move, to decide - I can just do! My house is cleaner than it’s been in months and I have plans for so many more projects around here.

I hope, if you’re reading this, you’re in as good a mood as I am. I hope you’re taking care of yourself.

MYTH
OF THE HAINT
OF HERE:

- AN APPARITION FOR THE AGES -

Haint nuthin' but a ghost thang, baby!

You may think I'm lying, but it's true. This isn't just some flight of fancy about some girl. I haven't been freely frolicking in fertile fields of imagination, much to my dismay.

In the movie “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, Lana Turner stands with her hands on her hips and snarls at John Garfield: I used to think the reason I fell for you was because you were smart. Now I find out that you are smart, she says. It’s a really great line in a really great film. I mention it here apropos of nothing. Or everything maybe. I get those two mixed up all the time.

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