Thanks for these tips. The next time I’m motivated to print something I’ll definitely take this on board.

I have a BLTouch. Perhaps I need to assess how sturdy it’s table is that it lives on.

I have a BLTouch but still have issues. I do feel maybe a sturdy table is needed.

You kinda get used to them failing.

Part of the reason my printer just sits there not being used, aside from I collect hobbies for fun, is that it’s a nightmare levelling the bed and getting things dialled in.

Resin printers don’t have these issues but it depends what you’re printing I guess.

How is that even possible that’s awesome.

I’m sorry you had to go through that and it’s hard to not think of the what ifs, but I’ve done to realise that we can’t do anything about them so it’s not conducive to being happy.

I do feel like society is more accepting these days of people’s differences, at least in my experience and line of work.

Yeah the medication for all it’s pros has it’s cons too. I take methylphenidate XL 36mg. Which is the time released one which lasts all day. But I sweat so much now. I can be sat at my desk and feel literal drops hitting my side from my pits (eek) and thus I always wear a hoodie.

It has also wrecked what little appetite I ever had. Like I never really got the idea of food and I ate to survive, but now I even that is hard at times. I have resorted to taking medication earlier now though so we will see if that improves.

I guess you have to weight the pros and cons and see what works for you.

I think, but I’m not sure, that the first place I heard about it was the podcast ADHD reWired.

shoudl be able to find the origin here

I have heard that ADHD is only a problem on modern society and in the past we were the hunters as opposed to the farmers. We needed the ability to hyper focus on the landscape and watch for threats but suck at farming as it requires long term effort.

That said, what is the alternative to being medicated if we have to live in this society?

For the first 39 years of my life I was a failure and only when medicated has my life improved infinitely.

Those thoughts are natural but it’s important to put them behind you.

I was diagnosed at 39 and had the same thoughts about the wasted time, but less than a year later I was driving, had a car, drug use dropped dramatically, made better choices (not perfect), and now I work as a software developer.

I still can’t believe the before and after and the fact I have wanted to do this career for 20 years but I made it in the end.

This doesn’t mean I am “happy”, I don’t think I ever need I’ll be but I’m happier and that’s important to me.

I have no idea, and this is just my thoughts.

In my experience, the vast majority of people on gangs are doing it due to lack a of opportunities and those people can change if given chances to succeed in legal ways.

There is however a subset within here that can never change, they’re in the game for the rep and they like that life.

Either way I find it a fascinating subject.

I guess that I started making better decisions and not choosing immediate gratification.

Comparing my life to before I started medication is literally insane. (Diagnosed nearly 40 years old) I was a failure, had a decent job doing 20 hours a week at Apple as I couldn’t do more than that and be happy, I want happy but it would have been worse.

I now drive, have a car and I’m a software developer. The most difficult challenge was trying not to think about the what ifs. What if I found out 2 years ago etc.

Nah it was cable porn. Bunch of prudes.

I’m cynical but they won’t change. They’ll just move to another country and do it again.

Don’t lie.

Why would you want to be medicated for something you don’t have.

If OP thinks they have something then surely finding out exactly what that is is the key.

It’s quite annoying the coolness around some neurodivergent conditions have. I can tell you first hand that the 38 years pre diagnosis were no fun and the two years after have been unbelievable.

People seem to focus on the cool aspects like hyper focus but not on the 50+ jobs I had and lost during my life. The drug addict, thrill seeking and worst of all appearing to be a failure to all my peers.

In reality I did nothing wrong, I was just playing life on hard.

Im sorry you didn’t get the diagnosis you wanted or believed you should have.

All I can do I offer my experience.

So, I had lots of markers from childhood, eternally unhappy (doctors many times for depression and anxiety), substance abuse, so many jobs (50+) that I’d left or been fired from etc

So in short ADHD was ruining my life. Post medication is night and day. I’m now a software developer and doing better in every aspect of life.

If you feel you didn’t represent yourself truly to your psychiatrist then perhaps having another session.

I think it really does depend on how negatively it has effected your life and whether medication would help that.

If you’ve presented yourself as doing fine then it’s no surprise they’re hesitant to diagnose.

Also, there are numerous other conditions that can align with ADHD so perhaps exploring those would be an option.

May I ask what you wanted from the diagnosis? If life is going ok and you’re coping well then what can you gain?

Take that question as curiosity and not me being rude (over thinking as always.)

Death is an easy out.

I am that I saying that the founding of America has probably had a net negative on the world.

That said I’m British and perhaps shouldn’t be throwing stones whilst in a glass house but I’m not proud of my country as you seem to be of yours.

Insufferable much.

If I recall water wets things, I don’t think it’s wet itself.

water isn’t wet