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
With Meetup’s now charging organisers almost $80 a month to run a group, we are in the process of changing platform. Here is our Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575622771019
Upcoming events (1)
See all- ADHD: July chat at the libraryEast Melbourne Library, East Melbourne
In collaboration with the Adult ADHD Melbourne Facebook page run by Raymond, 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.
Ray’s usual format is to set a topic (for June, it was ‘Masking: What is it, why do we do it, and what are the consequences?’), 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.
This is the last library event that will be organised via Something To Add. For future library events, make sure you join Adult ADHD Melbourne on Facebook. For our other events, join Something To Add on Facebook.
