Well, I may as well add the continuation of my journey to the story I have started here, though it’s not quite the right place now that I no longer need to vent 😉
I actually remembered to phone the psychiatrist when I was supposed to, which is a great start, because I hate making phone calls, and I suck at remembering to phone people. Anyway, I got an answering machine and left a message. I forgot to say why I was calling 🙄 but did leave my name and number, so it wasn’t all bad.
About an hour later, the psychiatrist himself returns my call. Thankfully I didn’t need to explain myself, as the secretary (or whatever she was) of the doctor who I was originally supposed to see had explained it to the new doctor when she made the arrangements for me to be referred on to him.
The psychiatrist explained that medicating ADHD is not something he likes to do because stimulants and methamphetamine are similar in composition and he believes that there are risks in stimulant use that are yet to be discovered and that are potentially similar to those caused by meth use. That said, he then told me that he won’t cause me any more grief by referring me on to yet another psychiatrist after all the difficulties I had been through with trying to get an appointment. He is willing to see me for assessment, and he then said that my GP is able to take over prescribing stimulants (but only if she is willing) after 6 months of treatment by a psychiatrist (which he is) as long as a psychiatrist assesses me every 12 months. So from what he said, he is willing to prescribe stimulants if I am assessed as having ADHD, despite his preference to avoid their use.
I don’t recall much of the conversation, but I know I did lose my train of thought completely during our discussion. I also know that I continued to argue the positive side of stimulant use in ADHD, despite the fact that he had already agreed to assess me and had implied that he would be willing to trial stimulants. Hmmm. I really hope I did not sound like someone trying to fake symptoms in order to get the drugs 
I just do not know when to shut up!!!
I now have an appointment for the coming Monday (5 days away), because one of his regular patients cancelled due to going away for the school holidays. I remembered to ask him if I should bring anything in particular, and he said no, unless I have school reports. Which I have. And they show evidence of ADHD. Well, some of them at least. I did well at school in general, and got pretty good reports for the most part, because I enjoyed learning new things and have a high intelligence level, but scattered through my reports are things like “daydreams”, “not working to her full potential”, “has a flexi-time approach”, “homework started but rarely completed”, “could do better”, “makes careless mistakes”, “rushes her work”, “needs to take more care setting out her work”, and “will apply herself only in subject areas which interest her”. I have selected the worst handful of reports (which cover several high school years) to take with me. The ironic thing is that my own mother was a teacher at my school, and she wrote something in one of them that supports an ADHD diagnosis lol 😉
Now I have to wait until Monday