Hi

hey @ArraDreaming how are you going?

i LOVE the matching hoodies idea, that's such a fun way to connect with the community. i wish i had a local coffee club like that.

what coffee options do you offer?

@rav3n
I domt offer a lot of variety hahaha

long blacks, caps, lattes that’s pretty much it

I got some mugs from the op shop so people don’t just get takeaway and leave they stay and talk

Hey @0ddsidian do you remember how I was going to say something about my adhd and decided it needed a new thread

well I won’t make a new threa so but I wanted to say this

you asked how my adhd affects me, well

some of it does show up like this:

• I say or do stuff without thinking and then regret it.

• My emotions flip fast one minute I’m raging, next I’m crushed with guilt this is because I act impulsively and get angry then regret it after

• I get stuck worrying about things

• Feeling judged hits me way too hard.

• Appointments and plans can overwhelm me sometimes

• Noise, chaos overstimulation make me shut down or escape and makes me angry

• I can’t sit still like if I have to work at a table or a training day

• my attention span for thing s can be really low
• I zone out sometimes
• I start a lot of things never finish them

• But also creative

• enegery to play with my family

• I have to skip every day with a skipping rope haha

• Problem solver
• I got into fix it mode and want to help others and stand up for others when I see something wrong

But here the thing I was trying to say , not all of that is ADHD some of that will be on a list of adhd signs, like for sure. But Some of it comes from trauma or some of it is just like my personality. Losing my temper, being stubborn, being playful, thats actually just called being a human. People lean on the label too much I feel and using it to explain every little thing. Yeah ADHD explains some things, trauma explains some things but also a lot of it can still just be personality. A adhd diagnosis doesn’t void you of a personality outside of that label. We are still preprogrammed with other things. Thats just being human. You can still laugh, mess up, get angry, be creative and it doesnt always need to be “because of my ADHD.”

I get really tired of hearing it sometimes, when you can just be *you*.
I have a few labels to my name… but I also am ME as well.

I am also speaking from a position of being unmedicated for adhd so I have no idea what would happen if I was… how does that work?

@ArraDreaming haha that's good enough! you should add puppuccino to the menu in the future, Nicki might appreciate it 😋

environmentally friendly & encourages people to stick around - that's so smart!! you got any other ideas up ya sleeve for the coffee club?

haha so fair, how many coffees roughly do you end up making each Sunday?

ahh yes, a very lowkey coincidental gathering !! @ArraDreaming