What we’re about
ADHDers face tough challenges in life, but we are far from all bad. You don’t have to quite buy into the narrative of neurodivergence as a ‘superpower’ to believe that we often have unique takes and contributions — we have something to add.
This is of course a little pun on ‘ADD’, an older name for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
I created this group for Melbourne because there was no other one organising in-person events specifically for ADHDers (not autism or vague neurodivergence). We are affiliated with the Adult ADHD Melbourne Community Page on Facebook (which recently got deleted and had to be recreated) run by Raymond, and can be considered the Meetup presence of that Community, which has existed for a decade.
We are the only Meetup group that regularly holds ADHD events in Melbourne.
Come and meet up with other people who like you may be more spontaneous than others, more truth-telling than others, more awkward than others but with a heart of gold. We might be late but we get there in the end!
—Amy-Dee
Upcoming events (2)
See all- January chat at the libraryEast Melbourne Library, East Melbourne
In collaboration with the Adult ADHD Melbourne Facebook page run by Ray, I’m pleased to announce this group’s seventh meet-up at this venue, and our twelfth overall. We will again be piggybacking off a regular event that Ray has been organising on the second Saturday of the month for a decade. Since mid-2023, it has been at the meeting room of East Melbourne Library. I have attended every month since May 2023, and also several times in 2019. There will be some forty attendees, with about half coming from this group and the other half from Facebook.
Ray’s usual format is to set a topic (for November, it was ‘What are the strengths of ADHD, what do we like about it, how can we utilise and sell our strengths?’ and for January it will be ‘How is the world not set up for ADHDers?’), get everyone to form small groups of under half a dozen people to discuss it, then come back to a plenary session to share what we think. It’s not tightly moderated, and people end up largely just chatting to make friends, ask how people found out they had ADHD and what resources have worked for them, etc.
There is a break during which we can use the kitchenette to help ourselves to tea and biscuits.
There are always both regulars and people who are trying the meeting out for the first time, often having been recently diagnosed. Our meetup is after library closing time. We have the keys. Please come at 1:45 p.m., and the presentation will start at 2 p.m. Try to be on time, but better late than never.
It costs me $30.79 USD ($47.14 AUD) a month for an Organiser subscription that allows me, a volunteer, to run Meetup groups. So, if you can, please send a dollar to @AmyThePuddytat on the Beem app or via PayID or PayPal to [email protected] each time you come.
