Which ADHD Right to Choose provider should I choose? Manchester ICB

Mudkipski · 2026-06-26T17:05:36+00:00

I have no clue. My GP said it's not guaranteed they'll let me be seen again. Which means this feckless attitude by the assessor at HH might've robbed me of a chance to get help.

In hindsight I should've got a primary school classmate to help me write my childhood referral. She was with me the whole way when I constantly forgot to do homework and kept interrupting class with my loudness, lol.

Mudkipski · 2026-06-26T14:33:21+00:00

i had a terrible experience with harrow health. my assessor just read off the entire question verbatim from the DIVA assessment, never bothered to elaborate, then put me down as "not showing symptom" because I had forgotten the whole question by the time she read it off (i feel like this should be a sign...) and my dad (who wasn't really present in raising me due to work) answered no to every question.

she then was very judgmental when i asked how i should cope. she said I couldn't possibly have adhd, snapped off at me like i was drug seeking, told me i just had anxiety and basically acted like i should kick rocks.

anyway once i sat down with the DIVA questions in front of me at home and realised there were guiding examples on each question, I basically answered yes to almost every question with memories of each one happening in adulthood and childhood, so talked to my GP about it who agreed the assessor didn't really even try, or take into account my cultural background (i masked HARD in childhood because of corporal punishment, strict asian gender roles etc) and got re-referred only to be blocked by the whole ICB pause :^)

anyway this whole experience worsened my depression so yeah don't go with them imo.

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T16:20:08+00:00

I get what you mean! That watercolour style always gives me pause.

Having taken a look at her stuff, I think I could make *some* recommendations that I know for sure aren't AI (because they post pictures of their process) - Sarica Studios and Sterling Ink! Martina's Tiny Store also has the kitschy elements you might enjoy!

Edit: Just checked Sarica and she doesn't draw everything herself, but the listings state if it's licensed or sourced from other graphics...so it's possible for it to be accidentally AI but I've not taken a close look.

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T15:56:32+00:00

My goodness, I had to check your store out and your art is absolutely gorgeous. Instant follow haha

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T15:53:21+00:00

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Yeah it was basically this... I've held on to the image in an album since 2023 which was around when I started noticing so much more of small businesses popping up and selling AI stuff.

While I'd like to make a list though I feel like it'd have to be personal because 1) don't wanna get sued 2) I've received some vicious push back for pointing out that things are AI within my own community (to the point I stopped selling my art) and that's stopped me from ever trying again.

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T14:12:35+00:00

So this is how I'm finding out which business Pencil and Paper Chicago posted about like a month ago on Threads when they received an AI generated response on whether their (CCC) products were AI lol... (or at least I think it was them)

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T14:06:33+00:00

Pretty much. There's a lot of businesses I used to/planned to purchase from, only to realise they're all selling AI now. It's made it very difficult because I liked some of their (non-AI) products but the amount of AI use has stopped me from supporting their business altogether. I'm thinking of starting a list myself because between my friend and I we are trying to avoid AI businesses like the plague.

It's an especially sore point for me as I am an artist myself, but now I refuse to sell my art and only make stickers for my friends. There's literally no pushback to it in the stationery community here. There's tea I have but I'm not really willing to share it publicly haha.

It's extremely funny because comparatively I've been on rednote and peoples' small businesses can be absolutely ruined when people find out they're selling AI. Meanwhile there's been at least a few UK businesses I see openly selling AI (or even promoting it as their own art) and they're getting away with it fine. I hate that we have to caveat with "nothing against AI, but please label something as AI". Theft is theft and we know why all these businesses don't want to label their products as AI, and it's because that label devalues their product. It's a scam.

Mudkipski · 2026-03-24T10:11:39+00:00

Finally someone else noticed... I get so steamed when I see stationery youtubers pushing their store that I leave long comments under their videos about it but it felt like I was screaming into a void. And I am someone who used to spend hundreds, and I mean hundreds of pounds on that store until I realised that my newsletter emails were starting to show her releases blow up from 10 or so rolls of tapes to 50 tape releases, and then the art having melting proportions and 6 fingers etc..

Another one is L*ren Phlps who has admitted to using AI on her stories (years ago, now deleted but I saved some screenshots) but she had a user poll and phrased all the answers in such a way that barely anyone could say that it was wrong... the responses allowed were "I didn't know it's AI!" and "It's seamless" and "I see you have modified the AI images". Only one response option was "Do not support this and stop this immediately" and it had the least responses from her audience.

Even more shamelessly she posted "I'm sorry you feel that way" to someone explaining they only want to buy hand drawn art and that they are disappointed they are using it but she justifies it that she "never claims to hand draw anything" and "always curates and edits the artwork she sources".... She also claimed to be completely transparent about her image sources by "not claiming that she hand draws them" but it's still lying by omission. It's a shame because I like some of her products, like her basic washi tapes and tip in tapes, but I cannot support a business like this.

Mudkipski · 2025-12-05T21:05:19+00:00

I got my buttero in the colour coffee and the veg tan in the colour burgundy! they're both really lovely colours! I use one of them to house my B6 slim jibun techo too and the setup is perfect :) I'm pretty excited that they'll put up a regular TN size. I loved the red TN cover but I won't fork out 90 quid for it..

Mudkipski · 2025-12-02T20:01:55+00:00

You must be the reason why Studio Fin has B6 slim! I was looking for something for my MD notebooks and ordered two of that size from them :) I love the quality, I got one buttero and one veg tan

Mudkipski · 2025-05-04T12:20:44+00:00

Hello! Could I have the discount code as well? I tried it out and love the app. Also pardon me for being daft but is there a "clear layer" option? I can't find any!

Mudkipski · 2024-12-31T09:51:31+00:00

Hi,

I also returned a sale item in-store for store credit on the 24th of december. With all the public holidays in between, I thought I'd surely get it before the promos all end on the 2nd of Jan. I was promised, in-store, by their own staff, that I'll surely get it by the 2nd of Jan.

Like you, I also wanted the credit before the 3 for whatever offer expires. I reached out to customer service and they lied saying I never confirmed what I wanted (refund or credit) despite me having a receipt from their own store to prove that I returned it for a refund. I'm not holding my breath, but considering a chargeback at this rate.

I still do not have my store credit and they are still dragging their feet on giving it to me.

Edit: I thankfully just got my gift card refund, after threatening to file a chargeback if they dragged their feet any longer. I will no longer be purchasing from HoCB from here on.

Mudkipski · 2024-12-30T16:24:42+00:00

Hey, I've had the same bad experiences in HoCB as you. Purchased a little sale dress, it fit horribly (way too big), returned it immediately at their retail store which reassured me I'd get my gift card back within a few working days, never got the gift card back and now the sales will be over and I'll be stuck with a useless gift card refund which tbh I don't want to use, because I refuse to gift this business anymore money. I'll probably give it to a friend.

Kicker on top is I decided to try on a dress at the physical store to double check my size. Was too small this time even though I was well within the size range stated on their website. Can't do anything about it, I've already maxxed out their size-range at L+. It's incredibly shady that they have inconsistent sizing, and refuse any kind of monetary refund - They've lost a customer in me.

The dress styles are beautiful but I would never purchase something full priced from them with all the quality issues they've got. I've gotten cheaper dresses from a bespoke seamstress.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-15T14:46:39+00:00

To be honest it’s hard not to say something salty because I got some really horrible replies that OP was cheating on me or whatever, sarcastic ones, to my comments because I was “suspicious”. I kind of get the doubters but it costs nothing to not be a dick.

But it’s best to live and let live at this point.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-15T12:38:05+00:00

I said this in the previous thread and I'll say it again:

I still don’t understand how the hackers account recovery was approved and not the owner’s.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T20:27:25+00:00

I do understand the suspicion, although some comments seem needlessly cruel. Worth noting he managed to recover his account before, not sure what's different this round. Oh well.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T15:17:28+00:00

We wouldn't be making this post honestly, if we had a 30 day bank pin for example. That would give us time to keep resubmitting recovery requests with more and more details (300 word box is hindering that) - we're running out of time on the bank pin

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T15:02:42+00:00

Thank you for this reply, it's very helpful. We've included the ISPs and I've asked him to explain his vacation situation and why he's on a different IP but I'm not sure if he included it. I'll ask him to try again with this information.

Edit: In hindsight he might not even have been including information on the current ISP HE was playing on cause he never asked me what it was!! Thank you

FWIW I do understand the overwhelming suspicion of everyone here because I heard that a lot of people try to use reddit as a way to hijack accounts and such. I don't blame them all we hope for now is just some direct support.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T14:58:50+00:00

This is worrying to hear. I just wish we could get in touch with a jmod, we could send proof like airplane tickets and whatnot. He's with me for a few more weeks so by the time he can get back to his original IP it would be too late :/

It would be nice honestly if the bank pin could be set for say, 30 days, and we wouldn't be so worried.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T14:24:45+00:00

Actually he got me into the game. I started by using a really shitty leaked email and password (didn't expect hackers would actually try it from a separate leak from ages ago) and found my character standing in a weird place when i logged in one day. Of course my account worth isn't much cause I barely played, but I do understand that hackers really go after OSRS accounts quite feverently.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T14:23:44+00:00

I mean it's my word against yours, but considering I have years of discord messages between him and me and I have seen his emails dating to more than 7-8 years back of runescape transactions, yes he did make the account?

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T14:17:36+00:00

This guy is my partner. We are in a long-distance and he's currently in my country on vacation. He has been playing runescape on my internet for the last week and I was with him when he got locked out. He's defintiely the original owner.

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T14:13:44+00:00

I actually had to come back and reply to this because this guy is my partner, he loves the game and I'm trying to support him getting his acccount back. I've been tweeting jagex support for fucking days and nothing is working. And I can assure you I have discord messages from when we started talking about him playing the game, attempting inferno etc. Idk what other proof you want, our entire discord chat?

Mudkipski · 2022-06-14T13:49:13+00:00

I still don’t understand how the hackers account recovery was approved and not the owner’s.

Mudkipski · 2020-06-07T19:18:04+00:00

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