Congrats - it sure is a milestone…

I was diagnosed at 44yo, finally got to a psychiatrist who said to me: you’re doing every single life hack/strategy we could possibly ask an ADHD sufferer to be doing to manage their symptoms… Did you want to try some medication?

I was like: “so that means, yes, I DO have ADHD?”

He just smiled and said: “yes, absolutely!”

I was so relieved to finally have some kind of answer I broke down on the spot, and had to defer the meds conversation till the next months appt as it was all too much at that point.

I’m 8-9 months in, and wish I’d been diagnosed 35 years ago!

My journey wasn’t anything like yours, it only took 12 months once I decided to pursue it, but even I had to laugh when my GP gave me a list of a dozen psychiatrists and told me to call each one to see if they were taking referrals…

I looked at him and said: you’re giving me a list of 12 things to do with no deadline so I can get diagnosed with ADHD… Isn’t this a terrible idea?!

Haven’t tried this in a while (I’ve been off iPhone for 5years now), but iPhone used to allow this as follows:

If you join your home WiFi and have no default route set by dhcp, iPhone should tell you it has no internet and you can tell it to use the connection anyway.

The iPhone feature to “use 4g when WiFi is bad” should then solve for internet access and let you do both.

Just be aware you can’t have split brain DNS, so internal LAN stuff will likely need to be accessed by ip address only, not DNS based.

https://archive.md/xYSIL

I’ve been wondering with everything going on, if they will bother finishing the 5th season of Handmaids Tale, then this today; life imitates art: I wonder if these folks will seek asylum?

I backpack it everywhere. I love boundary supply, but they’re expensive and lord almighty are they slow to ship…

That being said, I EDC a Prima system as it also hadles my laptops and camera gear which travels with me frequently. I’ve just added one of their bottle carriers to the shoulder strap and I’ve got another one to install…

In addition to the backpack, I’ve moved to pants with plenty of pockets. I live in 5.11 cargos (pants or shorts) and even wear the 5.11 tactical jeans which have an extra pair of pockets (usually for ammo. I use them for wallet and phone…)

Someone made it and got it flying. Its available as a hobby rocket model kit:

https://www.fliskits.com/WPRESS/product/acme-spitfire/

I was also diagnosed late in life (mid 40s).

For me it became a significant impact in two places in my life:

1. as my roles changed and I needed more ability to handle “blank page” type work assignments as I became more senior, rather than “survive this chaos” which I’ve always excelled at (given my ability to drop something, pick up something else, then revert later.) With previous “chaos surfing” roles, my now diagnosed ADHD was actually a secret super power (seriously, I managed turn ADHD into a career). As my roles became more “take this blank page, and figure out what to do, and make it into a project to make stuff better” I fell off a performance cliff.

2. as 1 happened, my ramp up of symptom management routines started to impact my family. (I didn’t actually realise this until my partner filled in her part of my diagnosis questionnaire. )

My Doc basically told me I had been doing everything they want ADHD patients to do to manage the impacts of their symptoms, but my level of challenge had reached a point where medication could help me live at an effort level below the 99.99% constant I had all the time.

He was right and it did…