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Group meeting

Hergé

I've been feeling particularly isolated of late as my son has been away at university. I visited my GPs social prescriber person and they recommended this group which meets once a month near my home town.

I found out that this group is primarily for ADHD people but all ND people are welcome.

It was a little overwhelming, it seemed everyone was just talking over one and and that there was very little if any structure, so it wasn't really my thing.. 

Anyway, the point of this post is that there was someone else there who had been sent by the same GPs, she was a young lady in her mid teens who was clearly not enjoying the environment.

I was chatting to her about general stuff and I asked her what her hobbies were. At this point she just lit up and started to show me her art that she had in these little sketch books, she is amazingly talented. It was wonderful to see, she almost transformed before me. 

Does anyone else have a "special interest"? I don't, I just outgrew my dinosaur obsession many years ago.

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  • A load of people talking over each other sounds a bit miserable, but I'm glad something good came of it in the end. Will you be going back?

  • in reply to mp500

    I really don't know, it just seemed chaotic. They had a couple of guest speakers and they sometimes had difficulty getting through. I have enough trouble finding gaps in conversations to interject, I stayed to ask a question of one of the guest speakers and I just got drowned out by some others. 

    The high point was my interaction with this young woman.

    I may have to find somewhere else to try and broaden my social scene, which is challenging at best.

  • in reply to Hergé

    To quote Clive James, theres no begining to my talents.

    It does sound overwhelming, well done for sticking it out and you've made a new friend.

    I am a good cook, I'm good at inventing recipes and can sniff food and usually tell whats in it and have a crack at making it, just from what I can smell, providing I'm fairly familiar with the ingredients.

    I tend to be either good at something or totally useless, like I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

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  • in reply to Hergé

    To quote Clive James, theres no begining to my talents.

    It does sound overwhelming, well done for sticking it out and you've made a new friend.

    I am a good cook, I'm good at inventing recipes and can sniff food and usually tell whats in it and have a crack at making it, just from what I can smell, providing I'm fairly familiar with the ingredients.

    I tend to be either good at something or totally useless, like I can't carry a tune in a bucket.

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