New #adhd screening test:
1) How many times must you trip over something you have "left in an obvious place to remind you to put it away properly" and nearly die before you actually put it away properly?
2) Does the idea of "leaving something in an obvious place to remind you to put it away properly" make complete, logical sense to you?
Me: OK, I'm finally psyched up enough to sit down and get stuck into some work. Let's do it!
Work: Here's a minor inconvenience.
Me: Oof. Well, that's me out and spiralling for the next hour or so...
Gough #Whitlam, Australian PM 1972–75:
• free universal healthcare
• end of White Australia policy
• Racial Discrimination Act
• abolished university fees
• removed tax on contraception
• no-fault divorce
• equal pay for women
• extended maternity leave and support for single mothers
• abolition of conscription
• abolition of death penalty
• Aboriginal #LandRights and the start of #LandBack
• established Legal Aid and Aboriginal legal services
• doubled arts funding: established SBS, National Gallery, Australia Council for the Arts, National Film and Television School
• withdrew ADF from #Vietnam
• withdrew support for apartheid #SouthAfrica
• first Western leader to visit #China after WWII; re-established diplomatic relations
• independence for #PNG
• democratising the electoral system through One-Vote-One-Value
• first federal legislation on human rights, environment and heritage
• cut #tariffs
• Trade Practices Commission
• Law Reform Commission
• National Parks & Wildlife Service
• Australia Film Commission
• Australia Council
• Consumer Affairs Commission
• Technical and Further Education Commission #TAFE
• abolished appeals to the (UK) Privy Council
• accelerated rollout of sewerage system to disadvantaged communities
• sought to close #PineGap
All this in under three years. #Auspol
That fun #adhd parenting thing where your child displays all of the #adhd behaviours you were taught to despise in yourself, resulting in your own complete cognitive meltdown as you try to overcome the ingrained disgust of those behaviours while simultaneously trying to be compassionate and understanding and helpful...
Also, them being a teenager and assuming Mum & Dad are idiots who couldn't possibly be of use isn't helping.
Maybe this is just me, but I suspect it is very GenX:
On one hand, I'm very glad that the things we had to just suck up as kids (neurodivergence, mental health, chronic health issues, etc.) are being taken more seriously nowadays, so that the young'ns don't have to put up with the shit we went through.
On the other hand, sometimes it can be hard not to feel taken advantage of by someone who could *really* stand to grow up, stop wallowing in their diagnoses and just suck it up once in a while.
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Drew Kadel