Diagnosed with AuDHD last November. Welcome. Doesn't it answer many many questions though!? Difference was also noticed with me too. I'm also LGBTQIA+ so many things were noticed when I was a kiddo!

My son is 36 and has ADHD, despite being diagnosed he has to wait a year to be medicated, this is heartbreaking because he has addiction issues and his impulsively have proved to exacerbate this. I feel for him, this has a detrimental affect on his relationship with his children and services involved with his children due to his ex partners behaviour. As a parent I could scream. He needs to attend multiple meetings and is judged when he forgets. My hands are tied, my will to fight is hanging by a thread.

BTW: with a name like Owen Jones, am I correct in assuming that you have family ties to Wales?

Hi Owen, How did you persuade your GP to put you forward for assessment or did you not need to since you went private? Btw: You don't look 38.

I rarely agree fully with what you say but I follow right wing and left wing commentators to try and see both sides.Well done for such honesty and openess,exposing ourselves can be hard but hopefully theraputic.The GMB interview on water was I feel your best contribution to public debate you came across as calm and well informed which is not always the case .Well done Owen.

This lack has been manufactured as a narrative to sell off further national assets, immediately after natural or man made turmoil. Due diligence can easily discern whether the most recent dramas are natural or manufactured in origin. Which unpacks Chomsky's "manufactured consent" with irrefutable clarity. So, I assume you have arrived at the same place as I, when I state... The UK government, alongside Public Health England deliberately exploited the pre existing mental health crisis as a strategy to protect the most vulnerable. This is the elephant in the UK to me, and its sadly looming larger, with an unaccountable world health body on the cusp of claiming sovereignty over our health outcomes, while ignoring the root cause of poor lifestyle pressures.

@@ppo2424 Not everyone is able to be a conforming sheep.

As a reader of these comments occasionally I applaud you for your comment

It is 100% the same in Denmark. There is an unmet need for more public psychologists and general therapy forms and a holistic perspective on the human experience.

@@charisma-hornum-fries which all highlights a grand problem with capitalism

Here, here.

Whoops … hear, hear!

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I've got both... so I Biden your call for solidarity! (Biden's clearly better than Trump and I'm not sure if 'trumping' anything will ever feel like being better or the best hehe) But in all seriousness having patched up the digest most of my life its interesting when looking at your life through a new, ens makes a lot more sense and possible workarounds to predicable pitfalls are now no longer about personal failing. WELCOME, from all of us.

Same @bruno37a as AuADHD I think I also did spot elements of it in Owen.

So true!

try reading insane medicine by Sami Timimi.

@@futures2247 🤥

@@futures2247no thanks, if you mean articles such as, The Scientism of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), he’s wedded to the flawed notion of IQ, and why wouldn’t he be given the location of his employment

Especially if you're someone who moves around alot. I gave up trying to get treatment. Each time I move to a new health authority and ask for a referral to specialists, I am just stuck in the queue for assessment. Which mostly takes longer than I'm in the area for. And then because I have to go through assessment for something I already have on record as being diagnosed with, it's then more weeks or even months before I would see any treatment and work and life will most definitely have moved me on by then. Now I mostly just do avoidance of people who make my life difficult. Which turns out to work fairly well for me!

Yes. I thought that too. His energy is off the scale and flip side, sharp focus is relatable. I don't like instructions, lists , numbers, time watching, it goes on and on. But I can read three or four books a week simulta

I genuinely mean this in the nicest way possible (sarcasm genuinely not intended), but I don't understand why you are "not surprised"? Why is being super enthusiastic and animated about what you believe in suddenly a flag for ADHD? Personally (and I appreciate I don't speak for everyone) after watching / listening to Owen over the past so many years, him having ADHD never even crossed my mind.

bless you x

That's very true

Facts 💯

Appreciate the sharing of your personal experience and the humility of your approach to this challenge.

I’m awaiting adhd I’m actually Autistic

I am 51 and am pretty sure I have it. Have not got the bandwidth to get a formal diagnosis but just putting a name to the madness that is my brain has really helped.

My mum just got the diagnosis at 51. She went private but hoping to switch to nhs once the prescription is set up

well clearly the thing to do is to ignore your principles and pay for a diagnosis, if you can afford it.

I went to Dr last month re ADHD I think I have it he said it’ll take 3 years backlog to get me seen. What happens when you get diagnosed? Is there magic meds to help us concentrate?

I'm really sorry to hear that, it must be very tuff. Keep battering you are brilliant.

Same here. Ritalin was quite literally a life saver for our son. Totally changed his school career from struggling to easily coping. We’ll see how long he wants to take Medikinet(Ritalin), but at the moment it is not something we even discuss - it is just part of the routine and we have yet to see any downsides.

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I join you in congratulating Owen

Same....

read Insane Medicine by Sami Timimi - and Adhd Is Not An Illness And Ritalin Is Not A Cure: A Comprehensive Rebuttal Of The (Alleged) Scientific Consensus (Paperback) Yaakov Ophir

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undeservedly sweet of you x

@@OwenJonesTalks Thanks Owen. I haven’t been diagnosed but many have told me that I may also have this condition. All the symptoms that you mentioned I’m very familiar with, cannot concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes, so disorganised, plus many have noticed as I have myself that in conversation I can often be talking about multiple topics simultaneously. I’ve suffered with depression in my life but have countered that condition through medication, therapy & physical exercises, but here you’ve mentioned symptoms that I’m all to familiar with, so thanks so much for addressing this. By the way, your work is always of a top quality.

What has this loony achieved?

You're still a lefty muppet, and if you are so keen on free speech, why do you censor everyone who doesn't agree with your soy drenched drivel?

It's more like this... You need your ADHD to be seen, by yourself and then competent medical authorities. You have to jump through a labrinth of hoops to see it, and for it to get seen. And it's made you a reeeeally bad hoop jumper, and you get lost in labrinths. There's no help for bad hoop jumpers, or maps... ...or hoops 😵😵‍💫😀

💜 As a fellow AuDHDer of a similar age, I just wanted to drop in here and give you a series of positive hand-gesture emojis! 🙌👏👊 Somehow it took me until I was 33 to realise both that I was autistic and had ADHD, despite struggling with mental health in the form of depression and anxiety since I was 17 (and which I now know pretty much all has roots in struggles related to my neurodivergence), AND doing a degree in psychology… I read back in the journal entries I made when I was about 22 and it’s mind-blowing/hilarious/frustrating (all at once) to see how close I came to a much earlier self-diagnosis, based on my knowledge of how different neurotransmitters worked and the impact of deficiencies… I had it nailed down to theorising I had a deficiency of dopamine/norepinephrine and therefore needed the respective reuptake inhibitors to exist as per the SSRIs that were common… my dudes, I was describing Adderall/Ritalin! 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 (though side note, I’ve since learned that Ritalin (and its friends) does absolutely nothing to retune the frequency of my brain signal, and just turns up the volume on ALL THE NOISE and makes me even more of a total disaster 🙈) I also went private for my ADHD assessment and diagnosis - it was very evident to me and everyone around me that it was a thing, and I was really struggling in both my relationships and professional life at the time, and didn’t see how I could go on for 2 more years on the NHS waiting list without any kind of certainty or possibility of treatment (the long term relationship ultimately crumbled about a year later despite the diagnosis and treatment (with his financial assistance, incidentally), and despite attempted couples therapy; which is one of the biggest regrets of my life… but we’re still close, and it’s darkly funny to me now that he’s been recently diagnosed with inattentive-form ADHD, given the effect and impact that my own neurodiversity ended up having on our relationship as a point of friction) My autism diagnosis is still technically an informal one - it seemed a lot more approachable to get an ADHD assessment than an autism one, and given that was also the avenue with most potential treatments, that’s where I focused my energies. But the consultant psychiatrist who did my assessment (and whose treatment/treatment supervision I’m still under 7 years later) was very clear that I had elements of other neurodivergences that had an interaction with the ADHD; specifically autism and OCD (I don’t think I’d meet all the criteria for a standalone diagnosis of the latter, but when rolled up together it all seems very clearly to be different facets of the same kind of underlying “thing”), and his official diagnosis report for the ADHD assessment was very clear he had no doubt I was also autistic. (turns out, and I had no knowledge of this until I talked to my mum about it much later, but when I was a very little kid, even as a girl in the 80s in Cornwall, I was suspected of being autistic, and had an assessment with a psychologist… my parents at the time worried about marking me out as “different” from a social impact perspective, and limiting my life potential by putting me in that particular box; and out of fear, the unknown, and of trying to do the best for me, they decided it would be better not to go down that route of “difference”… I totally understand and respect that decision of theirs, which they came to after careful consideration with my wellbeing in mind, and I think they might not be wrong about where things stood at that time in that place… but boy, do I sometimes wonder how things might have been with taking a different route!) This has been your overly long and detailed personal anecdotal comment (hello impulsivity), brought to you by being perpetually tired because my flat is an oven and I can’t cope with the heat, and in these situations my augmented neurotransmitters are really fighting a losing battle! Solidarity and magic sprinkles all round 💖✨

oh my not another duped person = read Insane Medicine by Sami Timimi - and Adhd Is Not An Illness And Ritalin Is Not A Cure: A Comprehensive Rebuttal Of The (Alleged) Scientific Consensus (Paperback) Yaakov Ophir

@@futures2247 Nobody thinks ADHD is an illness therefore a cure is unnecessary. Not sure what you're getting at.

@@matttimothy3641 that individual is a plonker. Research demonstrates ADHD is a genetic neuro developmental disorder connected to a lack of dopamine receptors. Sometimes can be linked to trauma and environmental factors. Some people find meds extremely effective others not so much. However to dismiss years of research is ignorant and dangerous

@@abitmorerational I think there is a lot of crossover with both Autism and ADHD as they share a few similar traits. The ability to hyperfocus when a subject catches our interest is one of a few things. That said I'm no expert. This is just something have observed based on my experiences.

@@IanCullen (NIH:) 50 to 70% of people with autism also present with comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

@@TomBeardshaw Thanks. That kind of confirms my suspicions. Especially given that I know a few people on the spectrum who are seeking an ADHD diagnosis.

I can sniff 'em out like a fart in a car 🤣

​@@notgarybrown😂😅😂

My son is dx with Dyspraxia and ADHD his meds have been so helpful. He is 19

100%

Maybe get some support for this. This is important.

Also, about a decade ago, Laurie Penny, who I did some assistant work for, recommended that I contact you and offer to help you out as well. You never got back to me, and this video confirms my suspicions as to why! Welcome to the ND family, dude!

You lying, I was diagnosed when I was a kid im 32 and was diagnosed around the exact same time as you claim...there wasn't only 2 places to diagnose ADHD that is a complete lie..

@@DystopiaFound Really? That's what my parents told me at the time, but maybe that's only the ones they could find. I'm so glad there were more places back then than I thought! Thank you for letting me know

@@fearlessknits1 yeah the UK is a big place and has loads of doctors and psychiatrist that diagnose

Your life has never been a waste of time. You are not a waste of time. You didn't know. Now you do. You also need to find out of the dunking yourself in the head. It hurts and does not help.

You say you have been IN EDUCATION for 40 years which i assume means you are a teacher/ lecturer not an eternal student yet you use terms like LAZY SLACKER ... it saddens me to think you have used terms like that in the EDUCATIONAL SETTING stop being so self critical and you may become less judgemental of your students LOVE to you ...

@@jimfletcher4520 ok, so 1) I said I was in education till I was 30. That's how long it took me to get a degree. Ended up with a 1st but I kept jumping around subjects coz I kept losing interest. 2) I am not a teacher. 3) Thanks for assuming I'd be mean to kids. 😡

I APPOLOGISE genuinely ...I too have ADHD .. And it's interesting how I interpreted what I read in a different way you intended I was diagnosed in 2005 .. I have had NO HELP despite repeated requests ... read and watch u tube but remember ADHD IS NOT PSYCHIATRIC ITS NEUROLOGICAL so find neurologists NOT naturopath s BEST wishes

I spoke to a friend about this and apparently ADHD people tend to be friends with other ADHD people (probably coz they are the only ones that can keep up! 🤣) Not only that, not sure if this is true or not but apparently we tend to favour areas geographically too.

bless you x