So, in true ADHD style, it has taken me three months to write this post. No. It has taken me three months to even start this post; finishing it and posting it are two whole other achievements!

Anyway, it has taken me that long to procrastinate over what I should write for the very first post. Where do I start? What would make a good post? What would be interesting? What won’t sound stupid? But I now realise that this is the fear… the fear behind the procrastination… the fear of doing something wrong, or doing something rubbish, the fear of actually having my voice heard. Because, what if no-one wants to hear my voice? What if no-one wants to hear what I have to say? What if no-one is interested in my story? It has taken me this long to realise that while, yes, I am doing this for others in similar situations, I am also DOING THIS FOR MYSELF. The fear of being heard comes from so many years of not being heard.

So… listen or don’t listen… but I’m going to be here periodically musing about the ups and downs of late discovery of having ADHD (I’m in my 40s), mixed with a myriad of topic rabbit holes my ADHD friends and I have meandered down. [And, yes, I did check the correct use of myriad, turns out both myriad and a myriad of are allowable, before you go off to check 🙂 ]

I AM A FISH, HEAR ME ROAR!

PS – It took another ten months to actually hit ‘post’.