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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m 53 now and was considering getting an official diagnosis a few years ago, I even had the initial appointments set up.

    I canceled it, because there was too much going on in my life at that moment (even got a notification I could reschedule for later)

    All that made me think about what I was hoping for from diagnosis. In the end it was just having something in writing that would help me with self-acceptance.

    Around that time I also was in a group psychotherapy so I talked about that and that part is now solved.

    Regarding meds - I don’t want to try them now as my other coping strategies are good enough at the moment and I’m a bit wary of side effects as I need to take a handful of. medicine every day, anyways.

    In the end you need to decide why you want a diagnosis. If you want to try meds I’d go for it. (My son “inherited” it from me and had meds for a time, which really helped him).

    In a case like mine where I didn’t expect any new strategies out of it or didn’t want meds - it was probably the right decision to skip it.



  • Speaking for a friend, they crashed the Mini Clubman S I love… sorry, THEY loved very much because of a WhatsApp that just arrived. Some one five cars ahead or so had to slam their brakes - eyes on the street would have made the reaction time “just enough” but even looking away for one second caused the crash.

    Learn from my err friend, don’t look at your phone while driving, even for a very short time.

    Damage on the Mini was more than its worth at the time. No one was injured, but even what looks like a small fender bender can quickly get very expensive nowadays.