ADHD - May chat at the library

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. I have attended every month since May 2023, and also several times in 2019-20. There will be some forty attendees.

Ray’s usual format is to set a topic (for January, it was ‘How is the world not set up for ADHDers? How should it change?’ for example; the April topic is ‘The future is ours’), 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. Raymond has the keys. Please come at 1:50 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 a.d.dempster@gmail.com each time you come. I usually end up with ~$5.