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watched it on Saturday, 0/10 no lasagna at all

Yeah, all I can do is hope things look up in the future. Thanks for sharing, hope you take your struggles and ~~kick them in the ass~~ learn a lot from facing them.

If you don't mind me asking, did that have a substantial impact on how you felt afterwards? I'm asking because I suppose that what I hope to get from this test (when I eventually-god-knows-when do it) is some kind of change or potential thereof, you know? Something of substance, some kind of way out that I haven't tried over and over again before.

I'm not in the US either (thank goodness) but I'll also have to get it through health insurance. It's not ideal having to wait more than half a year for this assessment (and especially funny-not funny for someone who's likely to have ADHD), but I just can't afford 2k for something like this, I think.

Thanks for sharing your experience with it. The reason why I came here and asked you folks about this test is that it was legit new to me, even though I typically read a lot about this sort of stuff. Whenever I see IQ testing I automatically think it's probably sus at best and nazi shit at worst. I'm glad to know that this one seems to be more inclusive.

I'm comfortable, definitely, but now I'm not sure what other options I'll have. I've had terrible experiences with psychiatrists and I have a feeling that it'll feel ridiculous if I, a young man in his 30s, visit a psychiatrist to describe ADHD symptoms. No matter how legitimate my concerns are, it'll surely sound like drug-seeking behavior, trying to score some Ritalin or something. Maybe I'm just overthinking, I seem to do that a lot.

Edit: to be clear, this point about talking to a psychiatrist about medication is very specific to my circumstances, how my insurance provider deals with doctors and how doctors in turn deal with patients. It's a mass production line where you go in, talk for 10-15 minutes and maybe get proper attention. It's just a very strange process all in all, no human connection, just a disorder-medicine pipeline with barely any personal connection.

It's hard to say whether or not it's going to be of any particular use to you personally but it may help rule certain things in or out and it doesn't hurt to be thorough.

Yeah, I'm sure that it will at least be a box that will be checked. I've never taken any of these actual evaluations, I've only done self-assessment questionnaires online like the RAADS-R (got >140, which lit up some red lights), so I truly don't know what to expect.

I'm not gonna lie: what scares me the most is my test results being "welp, looks like there's nothing wrong here, you're just a bit smarter than average, just carry on and meditate a bit, maybe do some therapy sessions and you're golden". I did therapy for almost a decade (until a year and a half ago) and I still feel like shit.

In fact, I'm really surprised that I have to go through all this just for an assessment. I remember going to a psychiatrist a decade and a half ago, telling him I was feeling anxious, and walking out ten minutes later with a Ritalin prescription, which in retrospect is kinda fucking wild. Things seem to have changed a lot since then.

Sorry, I'm rambling a bit.

Well, 2k BRL, which would be about 300-400 USD, but that's a double-digit percentage of what I earn in a good month lol

I'm going to invade the US, prepare your , it's about to get kicked forcefully

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Ask them why the israeli Ministry of Defense, their military command and a legit target in a conflict, sits right in the middle of Tel Aviv, surrounded by civilian buildings.

My mom boils chicken breast, no seasoning, then shreds it and freezes it in small portions. She thaws a container overnight every day and feeds the babies. They're senior cats, all three of them 13 years old, but they're full of energy. They love their chicken, their fur is soft and shiny and they're super happy.

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