CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
A Naarm multidisciplinary has today found the answer to the cruel and debilitating condition that he shopped past six doctors before getting a diagnosis.
Sock Greene (30) has known for years that he wasn’t normal. From his borderline emo era at boarding school, to his early twenties at art school where he desperately explored his family folklore that maybe his great-great-great-grandmother may have had olive skin.
After briefly exploring non-binary pronouns during the pandemic, Sock realised that it actually presented barriers to his undeniable heterosexuality. He switched to ‘him/they’ in 2024, but has retained the gender-neutral alias, Sock.
A lot has changed for Sock since then. Namely, he’s finally found a doctor who gets it.
ADHD, commonly known as Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is recognised as one of the most common mental disorders affecting children.
In recent years, it also also become one of the most common mental disorders amongst people like Sock as well.
As the National Disability Insurance Scheme struggles under the strain of a wave of upper middle class adults attempting to validate their lack of concentration and basic human empathy for others, it seems that Sock is having a hard time securing the support he needs to fulfil a normal life.
With all of these perhaps unfairly prioritised quadriplegics and ASD Level 3 sufferers clogging up a system that is under-siege from political opponents who think the disabled should rely solely on the unpaid labour of family members to survive, Sock had to find another way to manage his brutal disorder.
And after completing three humanities degrees over 10 years without any HECS debt, he needed to find a way to do that without asking his family for anymore money.
This led him to bizarre resolution.
Sock got a job that required him to actually do stuff. No more desk, no more mindless emails, no more work-from-home.
After one week working as a roughneck in the Jackson Oil Fields of Western Queensland, Sock has found a way to expend enough energy to fall asleep at 8pm each night without 7 hours of doom-scrolling.
“The induction was pretty daunting” said Sock, who now goes by Sock, as he takes a sip from his Jim Beam and cola pre-mix
“I was advised to join a trade union, which my dad has always told me to never do”
“But apparently that’s the protocol if I want to avoid being in an unsafe space. Although I think unsafe space literally refers to working underground or on a crane”
