Something To Add (Adult ADHD 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.