The drug testing and having to call for renewed prescriptions every month were too much of a barrier to me, so I’m back to being unmedicated. I just don’t have it in me to make appointments every month that feel like a gigantic waste of time.
“Yep, still have adhd” “Ok we’ll renew it, come by next week for a drug test”
Cool, yeah, I can definitely totally remember to do that every single month forever with ‘my can’t remember to function until it’s a catastrophe’ disorder, even though it’s nonsense. Not problematic gatekeeping at all.
I inherited birds from my mother, a pair of conures… they screamed so much. I hated them. (I’m prone to headaches so they weren’t a good fit for me anyway).
I ended up giving them to a rescue after spending about 5 years working with them, trying to get them friendlier, see if there was any way I could deal with them for the next 30 years… ultimately I had to remind myself that I didn’t buy them. I didn’t make that commitment. So I was doing the best for them by giving them to someone more prepared to handle them.
But I did order a year worth of monthly-release trichogramma wasps for the rescue. They are sand-grain-size parasitic wasps that lay their eggs in moth eggs and this clear moth infestations, something almost everyone with birds has. They probably didn’t need to release them every month, because they are extremely effective, but that’s an issue that’s easier to fix with numbers.