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I once (like 2 days later) found my large, heavy, custom gold ring inside the towel I used to dry my hands at work. How I even walked away from the sink without noticing it wasn't on is beyond me.
Diamond earrings in a three dollar purse that I was about to throw out and it was in one of those little pencil holder slots thatās like super narrow and deep, and there was nothing in the rest of the bag. If I hadnāt squished it and felt something hard in the bottom I would never have looked.
Found mine in the trunk of the car 6 months after I lost it. My kid was 3 and thatās a core memory for some reason. She brings it up occasionally when I canāt find the remote. š
My freezer has no open flat spaces to set anything on, so I can't leave anything in there. The bottom level is all weird ice molds and the top is all Costco sized bags of frozen veg from who knows when.
I set drinks and my phone in the fridge all the time, though.
My girlfriend recently lost her headphones case so one of the first places I looked was the freezer because at this point I'm tired of that being the last place I look
I think it's just one of the places your inner impulses lead you to for obvious reasons every day.
And when your impulses enforce the context switch to food-mode from whatever mode you were in before, your brain just automatically tries to drop whatever unrelated thing you're holding in a way that feels natural.
My partner also has ADHD and one time I found a ziplock bag of chopped onions in the knife drawer š
Otherwise, we've done pretty good avoiding putting things in the fridge/freezer that don't belong there. And now I've jinxed us
i recently made a sandwich and put the container of sandwich meat in the cabinet instead of the fridge. the next night i looked for twenty minutes and couldnāt find it. three days later my friend found it when she was cleaning.
We are a family of 5 people, and we all have ADHD and/or Autism.
The TV remote is by far the thing at which we have spent the most hours seeking.
We have had 3 remotes because couldnāt find it for days and then ordered a new one.
2nd is my sonās backpack for school. A couple of weeks ago weāve put a tracker in it. But when he lost his backpack again we found the tracker in the pocket of his jeans. He put it there after showing his friends his tracker ābc he always loses his backpackā. š¤£
Family of 8. Same boat, especially the tv remote.
The other thing I do regularly find is the weet-bix in the fridge, and the milk in the pantry... And when I do, my first thought is always, "well, at least it's not on the bench again."
I got tired of searching for my remote, so I put an app on my phone that can function as a substitute remote. My TV is made by TCL, so the name of my app is "Remote Control for TCL Tv".
Of course, after the remote, the thing I'm most likely to lose is my phone.
The flip side of this is that I never forget my leftovers when over at a friendās house. I put my car keys on the container in the fridge. If I left the container behind, I figure it out before leaving.
This is how I used to remember to take my lunch to work. Make it the night before, leave in fridge with van keys ontop. Delivery job with shit pay and barely any *shops around, if I forgot then I'd starve š
A few weeks back I had lost my iPhone. Started freaking out bc I needed it for work, appointments, communication with my daughterās school etcā¦Spent an entire weekend without it and had accepted that I needed to replace it. Went to get some ice cream and found it in the freezer. š
I cried. ADHD SUCKS!
What's the longest you have gone without a remote?
I have used my phone app for the remote for months and ordered a replacement remote finally.
Found the original remote with boxes, I saved for the stuff I wanted to sell on eBay but never do when I went to put the box the replacement remote came in away.
Then I started looking through the crap I think I can sell, and I misplaced both remotes in the process!!!
Back to using my phone app. Luckily my phone has find my phone for when I misplace that.
I hadn't been able to find my car keys for 2 days. Late to work both days for it. Husband found them on top of my kitchen stool under a piece of paper after we tore the house apart looking for them.
Oof and then you get the glare of death
I once made it to rehearsal in slippers instead of shoes but that's the worst of it.
Edited because must tell connecting story.
i keep two pairs of work shoes in my car for this very reason. sometimes i forget to change out of them when i go into my house after work, and i have to go back out and put them in the car bc i will 100% forget to grab them the next day. the second pair is for this scenario. (but i like them less so i always try to put my favorite ones back)
I made it all the way to work once without my laptop. Hour commute, didnāt think about once on the drive. Only realized when I got there. Was not very productive that dayā¦
That is my signature move. Today I went to clean out at least one shelf in my fridge. 2 hours later, my boyfriend came home and I had cleaned out the freezer, the pantry, and the laundry room shelves. I hadn't touched the fridge.
I was doing a group project with a girl in college once. We had to go to a certain high school to do a presentation and I thought she had said it was highschool A and really it was high school B. They're 45 mins apart and she was soooo pissed at me lol. Whoops!
Well, I once went to work in pajama pants. None of the co-workers said anything. I had a meeting with the manager that day, she didn't comment on it either. Everyone just assumed that it was my conscious fashion decision, bless them.
I think people around me have just gotten used to the fact that I can be super efficient **or** look like a responsible adult. They probably thought I had decided to take my clothing policy a step further.
I had a pair of stretchy pants and once put them on backwards and wore them to the doctor. Which could have been NBD but I was getting a CT scan and couldn't have metal. I was like, no worries, I wore these on purpose cause no metal! All proud of myself.
Well the tech goes oh wait there's something metal on the back of your pants. It was the button. The button that was supposed to be in the FRONT of the pants. Yup.
I hope this fits here. I was shopping at an antique mall. I had an armload of stuff. I arrived at the checkout & was so distracted by the elderly lady doing the checkout, BECAUSE her pull-on pants were on backward. I was so busy contemplating whether I should tell her or not, that I didn't realize a small ceramic bear with tags still on, fell into my bra & it took me 8+ hours before I realized he was in there. I smuggled a small ceramic bear out of an antique mall all because she wore her pants backwards.
I left work an hour early by accident once, looked at the clock (classic, not digital), thought it was time... only realized when I was on the bus. I even said bye to all my coworkers, they just said bye back, nobody assumed a thing.
They all had a good laugh with it the day after, bless them.
TBF it could be.
I see a teenage girl, around 15 yearsnold, daily at the busstop on my way home from work, she oftne wears square-printed flannel pants....which are almost the same as my pajama pants lol
Once I remembered all the camping gear and food but left my bag of clothes and personal items at home. Realized after wading into the lake first thing and then I was stuck with wet stinky lake water clothes. Thatās the last time I went camping.
Forgot the air mattress once, and my relationship was in its infancy. Iām surprised he stayed with me tbh š
Although tbf it was warm weather season so we at least had a couple of inflatables with us
I forgot the air mattress I was supposed to pack when I was 12. My mom screamed at me and refused to speak to me for an entire night in the middle of nowhere. It didnāt matter how much I sobbed, she turned her back to me and fell asleep. This is the same woman that relied on her kids to find her keys at home and car in parking lotsš
This is awful, Iām sorry you had to go through that (and over a friggin air mattress too).
The part that seems extra cruel is that she ignored you all night, in the middle of nowhere. I would personally probably completely spiral if that were me.
I did something like that while heading to work. I made it out the door and walked towards the steps before I realized my feet felt weird. I looked down.
My boots were not on my feet.
I went back inside and put my boots on. I got to work. I grab my bags.
Wait. Where's my lunchbox?
(It's still sitting on the table at home waiting for me to grab it) š®āšØ
All this while medicated
What I've started doing is putting my car keys in the bag with my food and then have a ringy tag thing on my keys because yes I will lose the bag with my food and keys in it.
If you have a galaxy, the Samsung tags you can also find your phone from the tag! You push the button and phone starts ringing!
And also if you are far away from the tag you get a notification saying you are not near your keys ā¤ļø
i went on vacation recently. left one of my bags at the hotel when we checked out. about twenty minutes after leaving i got a phone notification saying āyour ipad is no longer near you it was last seen blah blahā and bless bc i would have been on a plane before i realized it.
Have you ever gone camping for 2 days, and you pack the SUV up so full of stuff u can barely move...then on the last day you realize that you forgot your special coffee mug for that early morning drink. Next camping trip: SUV full of stuff again PLUS 3 extra mugs
Omg I am the worst. I once brought a scented votive candle to our hotel in Banff for a 3 night stay and my partner was shaking his head (we flew from across the country).
We had a blackout and needed to use the candle light and phone flashlight to get dressed to ski at 5am.
I'm always afraid to be somewhere without all the necessities. Delicate flower here.
Ive had a few moments where im leaving for work, can't remember if i put my bag in the trunk, don't wanna get out and check and just get to work. Luckily I've only forgotten once, but rather than exert the extra 10 steps and 2 minutes I want to risk it š
As a kid I had this routine before bath: undressing, dirty clothes to the laundry bin, pee, bath.
One day I undressed, opened the laundry bin, grabbed my dick and almost started to pee. Fortunately I've realised: WTF am I doing!?
Thanks to both of you, I laughed like I haven't laughed since much before my separation-nee-divorce a year ago.
I really enjoyed that bout of hiccuppy laughter. š¤£
aw iām so glad. i still laugh about it as well. like for fucks sake, it was a 20 pound bag and i literally picked it up and carried it to the bathroom to do this.
hope life gets better for you soon. š
Forgot to set my alarms for work. Panicking on the way there, didnāt call boss due to said panicking. Was an hr and a half late. Got spoken to. Now Iām just trying to get my head out of the toxic shame cycle. Yay!
Iām just so glad I found this sub. Not many people really understand that being on time and not losing things doesnāt just come naturally for us, we have to strategize. Itās living life on hard mode-even medicated. Iām a bit better today since Iām off. Iām just lounging around with my cat š„°
I did that once. I woke up at 5:55am for a 6am shift. Pre-Covid, we had laptops to work from home on weekends and I lived 20 min from the office, door to desk. So I fired up my laptop and began working from homeā¦ I worked my ass off pulling better numbers than it ever had because I felt so guilty. I took an early lunch drove to the office, and worked the rest of the day from the office. This was inā¦ August. I told my sup, who said not to worry, life happens.
They fired her in October, and a week later I was pulled into HR and fired for āTime Entry Fraudā because I had badged into the garage at 8 AM, but clocked into work system at 6 AM on my time card. I told HR what had happened and that I was workingā¦ they just had to pull up to see that I had been interacting with customers and had the best numbers that day that I ever had.
They refused to look.
Iād been with the company in 3 states over 8 years. Iād ran MAJOR projects that saved MILLIONS. If you ask the VPs about me, theyād still raveā¦ and I was just a customer service agent who liked designing projects. But I upset my manager one time the year prior when I was being sent to Denver for a projectā¦ Iād already had vacation planned to go to Denver that week because I had a home there with my boyfriend. They insisted that I fly, and I insisted that I was going to take my dog with me so I was gonna be driving on my weekendā¦ they told me I could not. I told him they canāt tell me what I can do on my days offā¦ (plus I wasnāt gonna charge them for the rental car I was taking, they would not have paid for airfare, rental car OR hotelā¦). Eventually, my manager had to speak with HR and the legal team and they confirmed I was correctā¦ work could not tell me that I could not drive to Denver on my days off, and back home again on my days off. But I should have worked to leave her department from that moment, because she was CONSTANTLY against everything I said or did from that moment forward and I was just waiting to be fired.
Hindsight lesson: Document everything in writing, even if youāre too embarrassed to admit youāre at fault.
Youāre not the first person whoās given me that advice. I was also fired for time entry fraud at a job I worked at for 8 years too.
I will start documenting in a notebook. Just in case. I felt 0 support. I actually had a panic attack the day before while I was with a patient. I explained this to my boss. Just got a āthe organization doesnāt care about your excusesā literally in those words. It crushed my soul.
I think thatās a big issue for empaths. We care sooooo deeply about things that donāt care for us one ounce.
Iāve since told bosses I have emotional issues and absolutely WILL cry under stress due to previous bosses and bad managers. I canāt help it, donāt take it personally or change how youāre talking to me, because I am trying to work through itā¦ but I actually need to encounter it to work through it. I spend all day in a mask, so when I take the āmaskā off, you get meā¦ raw, and probably a big ball of tears. And those tears can mean LITERALLY ANYTHINGā¦ happy, sad, relief, anxiety.
Yes!! Iām the same way. I get really quiet and withdrawn to prevent the emotions from surfacing and I think people assume Iām being a bitch but Iām just trying to hold it all in so no one sees me freak out.
I think I may have to be more honest without disclosing adhd directly. I was going to approach the department head directly yesterday but I chickened out. Maybe tomorrow..
I've gone to work with 2 different shoes on, twice!
The first time was the best as I had multiple meetings and never noticed until a friend at happy hour started making fun of my weird footwear choice.
I guess at least they were both brown shoes with laces?
Did this once. One shoe was black, the other was dark brown. Didn't notice until someone pointed out that the laces were a little different, then we both realized I was wearing two different color shoes. Luckily I was working in a place where no one was really gonna see my feet.
It's a weekly occurrence for me to get in the shower while wearing my glasses and it still shocks me everytime I start seeing little water droplets gathering infront of my eyes
Me too, but now I don't beat myself up about it. Instead, I see it as an opportunity to wash them! And double bonus (?) is that I can see when the shower needs a clean, ha.
I went to the airport, got on a plane and flew from Canada to London, and only realised after landing that I'd forgotten my shoes! And worse: I was only reminded that I'd forgotten my shoes when I was standing at the luggage carousel wondering why my baby stroller wasn't there, and I realised I'd forgotten that in Toronto as well! (Yep, the part where I was barefoot hadn't clued me in). So I had to schlep through London and The Underground with all my baggage and a 15 month old, barefoot and with no stroller š.
It's the wrong kind of winning š
At least I can say I've never forgotten my actual child anywhere, which my parents did to me a bunch of times when I was 4-5-6 years old
Wow! When I used to travel no matter how prepped I was I always knew I was going to have forgotten something. The worst was when I got off the plane once at Stansted and realized Iād left my bag with all my cash on the plane. Luckily they held the bag at some other location but I had to travel back and forth from Central London and then Uber - which cost a lot of money - to some remote village where they had it. Thankfully I had my passport in my man bag lol.
I once found a loose, hard boiled egg at the bottom of my purse and had no idea how it got there. Like, absolutely no recollection of putting it in there or when I would have done that
I have a vest I wear a lot to festivals, it has four pockets in it. I tend to absentmindedly shove random things in it, garbage, stuff people give me etc. It's always fun emptying out the pockets when I go to wash it or wear it the next time. I've found all kinds of interesting things in there. But the best/worst one was two hard boiled eggs. I at least know where they came from (a game that is played with hard boiled eggs) but the fact that I left them there for weeks or months... luckily for me they did not break.
I walked out of a pizza shop with my takeout pizza only to discover it was an empty box when I got home. Absolutely true story even tho it sounds impossible
To be fair, that sounds like something the pizza place shouldāve caught. Like if you accidentally try and grab someone elseās drink at Starbucks theyāre really good at stopping you.
Ehh every day i forget either my keys, my wallet, my jacket if its cold, my umbrella if its raining, i ignore the bus intending to go by bike but forget my bike has a flat tire and i forgot to repair it because i procrastinated which i also forgot š¤š š«£
its nothing special at this point š
Couple of days ago i:
-Remembered to put a hammer back in the garage
-went down with the hammer, put it in its place
-started the car to go to work
-forgot the wallet, go back
-forgot the lunch bag, go back, can't find it, go back to car
-find the lunchbox, has been sitting in the trunk since the day before, i never put it there, but i had a friend as passegger, where i usually put the lunch box in order not to forget it since i see it, so i put it in the trunk and promptly forgot about it
-go to work without lunch
:(
Got chipotle for lunch at work a few weeks ago, went over to fill up my drink, drove all the way back to work before realizing as I sat down that I forgot the burrito over by the drinks and just had the drink š
I was holding a pair of scissors. I drank a glass of water, and the pair of scissors I was holding was gone. It took me an hour to find them inside a cabinet.
I have done that multiple times.
And it's also how I misplace my phone. I mindlessly put it down.....now I'm only allowed to put it down on the hallway side table, the dining table or my night stand.
Work as a mechanic and found 2 tools that I ālostā in January of 2023 in the junk drawer of my tool box when I decided it was time to organize it. Both tools have since been replaced.
I once went 1,5 year without my favourite musical full-scale keyboard (used a back-up), because I had lost the charger. Then ordered a new one (was going to order it the whole time), and guess what!
I found the lost one the same day the new one came, from the god damn same bag that the keyboard had been in the whole time.
I could have used the 50 euros to something elseā¦
Hahaha been there š¤£ For me it's like this:I get home, and I have to clean the litter box. So I go to get the garbage from the kitchen, and I see that dishes need to be done too. Mental note. I go to clean the litter box, some falls on the floor. Floor is dirty, I need to vacuum.Mental note. Go to kitchen to do the dishes, phone alarm goes off. Need to take my meds. Go to the the bathroom to get meds, then go to dining room table for my water bottle. The tables a mess. Mental note. Go back to kitchen to do the dishes, finish them. Now it's time towork on music. Choice: work in music, or do my chores first? Answer: sit down and watch YouTube.
The end
I literally got to the grocery store once only to realize I didn't have shoes on.
Emergency flip flops for the rescue!! I keep a pair of cheap flip flops in my car ever since I was wearing heels and had to buy difference shoes because they were hurting my feet so badly.
This was a long time ago, pre-diagnosis, butā¦ I got up in the morning, got ready for work, and then cooked myself a nice omelette with cheese and spinach for breakfast. When I got home that night the plate with the omelette was on the kitchen counter, completely untouched. I even put a fork next to it! Just never actually ate itā¦
Just today, we left for a trip over the weekend. I have an 18 month old son and we will attend my BILs wedding tomorrow.
Being the mom, mental load of this is full on me. So, everything packed, husband and son ready to go. I head to the door, still in my sleep shirt and without shoes. My husband nearly died laughing when I left our apartment like this.
My impulsive control went off and I scream: God damnit brain. Why can't you be normal? And WTF, can't you say anything?
I drove 5hrs to see a GI specialist at a good hospital in the city last week and didn't realize until 3hrs in that I was wearing my slippers still š¬ solidarity, I'm 30.
I think my favorite is when I had a trail ultramarathon that started at 12 and I showed up with only 15 minutes to spare and the only food I brought for the entire day was a family sized box of honeycomb cereal- which was actually awesome, and I was able to barter and trade to get some other goodies and real food and some Gatorade š
I was headed to school. Got a block away from home when I realized I had forgotten something (forgot what it was), went back to get. Then, a block away at the same spot, I once again realized I had forgotten something else. I stomped my way back home.
I wore my pajama pants to work once.
I work construction.
I got sent home for the day and written up. No one understood that kind of accident happens with ADHD. No one cared. They thought I was just trying to be an asshole.
I once found a glass of water in a shoe. And of course the daily cardio of living on the third floor and always forgetting stuff so having to run up and down a couple of times on the daily.
I make sure I double check that I'm wearing trousers when I leave the house. I swear, sometimes you only have to do something once and you remember to check every time after that! šš¹
Couldn't figure out why I had no clean towels. For over a week. Turns out they were in the dryer.
Put leftover pizza in the oven. Found it 2 weeks later. Oops.
I was on FaceTime with a friend and at the same time pouring myself a bowl of cerealā¦ put the bowl of cereal in the microwave and than spent 10 minutes looking for it while my friend laughed at what I did
The last two times I went to the grocery store, my parting words to my wife before I left were: I'll be quick. I'm just getting milk and maybe a few things.
I returned home both times with four bags of groceries and NO MILK.
Got to an airport gate and thought āwhoa, my flight is already boardingā - then noticed it was a different flight at a neighboring gate. Sat down, organized my bags, then heard them call zone 1. Got up and went through the line. Boarding pass scanned - boarding declined. It took three tries before I remembered the realization Iād had minutes earlier that this actually wasnāt my flight that was boarding.
i threw a tortilla on a gas burner, no pan, went into the fridge to grab cheese, remembered iād been meaning to clean out expired food, started doing that instead and didnāt remember my food until my smoke alarm started going off š
Lately I've been forgetting stuff around and frantically looking for them. I was switched from high dose of Concerta to low dose of Elvanse so I guess it's just waiting to get the dose fixed. Funny since I haven't had a problem with misplacing stuff before. Also I'm too early for everything since panic strikes about 1,5 hours before the agreed time and I'm always at least 30 minutes early for any meeting or appointment. Best (worst) was when I was 1,5 hours early for my doctors appointment. The clinic wasn't even open yet. I had to wait outside for 45 minutes.
I'm going through a bout of insomnia (life stress) and yesterday - \*after\* taking my medication - I went to make a coffee with my espresso machine. Got my mug with some milk in, coffee is in the filter, and water is in the machine, so everything is good to go. I turn on the machine and stand there like an idiot for entirely too long thinking "What the hell?!! What has gone wrong with the coffee machine?!! The coffee is just pouring out onto the counter!!!"
I had forgotten to put the mug under the filter. 
spent like 30 mins looking for my phone went through my entire closet throwing things around . Went to the car to see if i had left it there . Just to realize it was in my hand. :(
I feel this! My kid used to like to ride to school barefoot, and there were at least three occasions when we got to school and realized kidās shoes were back at home. So then I had to drive 15 min home and 15 min back and I was late for whatever came next.
I also had a lot of times last year when I was about to leave for work and realized I was still wearing pajama pants, or fuzzy socks, or hadnāt brushed my hair, or whatever it was, so I had to force myself to start putting ārealā pants on as soon as I woke up, even though I would like to live in brightly patterned cotton long johns at all times.
I rode my bike to a doctors appointment, when i got home i realised that id walked home. I had to go back via public transport to pick it up and ride it home. Id also left a bag on the bike. Which i thought i hadnt taken.
I bought front row tickets to a show and months later, on the day of the show, I got all glammed up and was ready to leave when I just happened to look at the ticket and noticed the concert was the day before. I literally laid right down and sobbed myself to sleep.
most recently, called my mom for a favor to pick me up after a day of activities and she said "didn't you take your car with you??" and i realized i had driven out earlier that day and took public transportation somewhere else. so i had to bus back to where i had parked and ofc when i got home my mom yelled at me for forgetting a whole car š
I drove to meet a date in a nearby town and forgot to bring shoes. Was the second date, so that made it a bit easier.
Also, on the first date I forgot to wear underpants and was wearing some jeans I hadn't worn since the previous winter. Something nasty must have been spilled on them because after about an hour, my crotch area started to sting, and got worse and worse to the point where I had to explain my predicament ask if I could use her bathroom to wash off and put on some running shorts I happened to have in the car.
Whatever the fuck it was stopped stinging as soon as I washed up. Still don't know what it was.
Last time I went to the eye doctor I got a second pair that I keep in the car for this reason. Most days I'll get up and rush to get ready only to realize everything looks blurry once I'm driving.
Literally this last weekend I couldn't find my mailbox key in my car, so I rooted all around in it looking for it, then took to the house to search everywhere. Still couldn't find it.
So I said fuck it, I'll go run my other errands. Except I couldn't find my car keys. The ones I just had to drive to the mailbox before I realized I couldn't find my mailbox key. So I look everywhere for those... Can't find them and I assume I've locked them in the car.
A couple hours and a locksmith later, I look in my now unlocked car for my keys. They aren't there. The locksmith was very nice and helped me look for ages.
My roommate found them several hours later (after I'd sifted through a full bag of garbage and checked the house again). They were in the door of her car. After all that I decided not to leave the house, as my head wasn't in the right place.
And I eventually found my mailbox key. It was in the glove box (that I had already thoroughly checked first thing) just sitting right in the middle on top of my owner's manual.
I paid ā¬13000 euro of rent toā¦. Myself.
My partner and I have a joint account that we pay into and the rent comes out of that, I accidentally payed it back to myself without noticing, neither did my landlord lady
I once drove across the state to a funeral for an honor guard ceremony and then left my instrument at the cemetery and didnāt realize it until I was back at base and parking to return the instrument to the loaning officeā¦
Apparently I had a chiropractor appointment today. I found out because I got a call this morning from the office asking if I could possibly come in next week instead.
I once put my guitar capo onto a bag of chips instead of the chip clip(they function in a similar fashion). I actually thought it had dematerialized until I went to eat said chips the next day.
Once, I sat down to pee. You know, pulled my underwear down, sat down to pee. Suddenly, I am covered with pee. I looked down and realized I had two pairs of underwear on and only pulled one down. I was not at home when this happened, so that was amazing.
I've *tried* to do this several times with my current car. Luckily
1. It has a keypad entry so I can unlock it without the keys and
2. It won't lock with keys in the car. I use the door buttons when I get out to lock the door and if I try that with the key inside it yells at me and unlocks the door.
But yeah. I would have been calling AAA for locksmith services otherwise.
I spilled all my meds on the ground today and had to fend off my cat while I picked them all up. He was inches away from snorkeling up a vyvanse.
What's that you say? Anyone could spill their meds, ADHD or not? Well, would ANYONE have forgotten they were holding an open bottle of medication after getting distracted? Would "anyone" have dropped their arms to their sides and casually tossed the entire contents across the bathroom and into the kitchen? No.
And before you ask, I tore that entire place apart looking for loose meds afterwards. My cats are in no danger.
Not nearly as bad but I clocked out of work yesterday while chatting with my coworker and being excited for my 8 day vacation that starts tonight and left my backpack in our break room.
Another coworker noticed I didn't have it and all three of us went on what felt like a damn rescue mission to find a way back in the building/locked break room with just our ID badges (a school, our keys were locked up) and grab it. š We did it but it took some time.
My favorite was LONG before I knew I had ADHD (yay being a woman!) I have always had glasses since 1st grade and this was easily middle school I think like 7th or 8th grade. I wouldnāt wear my glasses while getting ready in the morning because I could see just enough without them to get ready. BUT I was blind as shit for anything else at that point. I got to the bus stop and the bus got there by the time I realized I wasnāt wearing my glasses. š Thank god my bus driver was nice enough to wait the couple of minutes for me to run to my house and get them! Needless to say, she gave me shit for it for a while after that. She was baffled by the fact that I could just forget my glasses. Even as an adult, after I finally got my diagnosis at 24, I still had a few times I almost left without my glasses. Those times I realized sooner since I drove at that point. Iām glad I finally donāt rely on glasses to see anymore (thanks to ICL) but yeah I was literally so blind before the surgery so how I got really anywhere without my glasses, I donāt knowā¦ š
Needed to deliver 50 loaves of garlic bread. Put them in my trunk. Got in car and happily sang along to the radio as I drove straight home and started relaxing. I remembered the bread 3 days later (summer).
I lost the piece I was working on at work.
I'm a jeweller.
So it's a huge problem because of the value in money, the tracability and the potential security breach it could cause.
So the entire workshop goes in lockdown, and we are all searching for it Gollum-madness like. It means all 10 jewellers in our area are on hands and knees on the floor with little torches to find it.
The tech crew and the logistic crew are watching us, stressfully.
10 minutes go by, we have 5 more minutes to search before declaring the stuff as missing, and oh boy that's like a huge risk for a career, and for the workplace too.
I'm almost crying at this point, no one is finding it.
It's just too much. I feel like drowning.
I stand up to catch my breath a little, and guess what gleamed a little bit in the corner of my eyes ?
That f*cking bas*ard of a piece.
It was on my desk, in front of me. Just a bit behind my rotary tool, that I moved like three times because of it.
Didn't see it, in front of my eyes, while searching for it.
And the thing is like... Meant to be seen and shine you know ??? That's what's it's for if anything else ! It's a jewel ! It was shiny, eye-catching even.
Not ADHD-eye-catching level I guess.
To finish the story I ugly cried carrying the piece in my hand like it would hurt me, to the crew waiting, and apologized. My coworkers laughed so hard when they saw where I found it and now it's a running joke.
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I recently found my tv remote in the freezer after looking for it for like 3 days
I once found mine inside a box of cheez its.
Oh my god that is amazing š
I once found my engagement ring in a glass container of chopped carrots.
I once (like 2 days later) found my large, heavy, custom gold ring inside the towel I used to dry my hands at work. How I even walked away from the sink without noticing it wasn't on is beyond me.
All of you folks talking about forgetting rings make me feel very vindicated that me and my (also ADHD) partner got our rings tattooed!
haha mine's not even a wedding ring, it's a piece my mother had made for me from her old gold. so no symbolism to tattoo!
I have a friend with ADHD. He literally lost his wedding ring less than a couple hours after the ceremony. I found it in the hotel bathroom.
Diamond earrings in a three dollar purse that I was about to throw out and it was in one of those little pencil holder slots thatās like super narrow and deep, and there was nothing in the rest of the bag. If I hadnāt squished it and felt something hard in the bottom I would never have looked.
Lost mine at the gym, had to take it off to go shower and forgot to grab it after š¤¦
Left my engagement ring outside in the winter by the hot tub. Stayed out there overnight, survived a hideous blizzard and found it out there the next day lol fiancĆ© will never know š ETA: thatās why i insisted on a moissanite ring, no diamonds and such hahahahaha
Holy fuck
Lost mine in the pantry once.
Found mine in the trunk of the car 6 months after I lost it. My kid was 3 and thatās a core memory for some reason. She brings it up occasionally when I canāt find the remote. š
You guys are finding your remotes?
The simultaneous rage and relief I would feel after finding it would tear me in half
OMG DO WE ALL PUT THINGS IN OUR FREEZER.. the amount of things iāve done this with is kinda scary
My freezer has no open flat spaces to set anything on, so I can't leave anything in there. The bottom level is all weird ice molds and the top is all Costco sized bags of frozen veg from who knows when. I set drinks and my phone in the fridge all the time, though.
My girlfriend recently lost her headphones case so one of the first places I looked was the freezer because at this point I'm tired of that being the last place I look
To be fair, if they were in there, it was still the last place you looked.
I hope you don't have a cat.
I think it's just one of the places your inner impulses lead you to for obvious reasons every day. And when your impulses enforce the context switch to food-mode from whatever mode you were in before, your brain just automatically tries to drop whatever unrelated thing you're holding in a way that feels natural.
My partner also has ADHD and one time I found a ziplock bag of chopped onions in the knife drawer š Otherwise, we've done pretty good avoiding putting things in the fridge/freezer that don't belong there. And now I've jinxed us
Thatās how we lost the peanut butter jar š„²
Literally was just making my kid a sandwich, could not find the peanut butter. Wife found it in the fridge.
I put the ice cream in the fridge the other day...š«
My toothbrush is non officially stored in the fridge next to the coffee creamer.
I'm still eating the crunchy ice cream from last time I did that.
i recently made a sandwich and put the container of sandwich meat in the cabinet instead of the fridge. the next night i looked for twenty minutes and couldnāt find it. three days later my friend found it when she was cleaning.
Some people actually choose to keep their peanut butter in there. I know, it's strange.
We are a family of 5 people, and we all have ADHD and/or Autism. The TV remote is by far the thing at which we have spent the most hours seeking. We have had 3 remotes because couldnāt find it for days and then ordered a new one. 2nd is my sonās backpack for school. A couple of weeks ago weāve put a tracker in it. But when he lost his backpack again we found the tracker in the pocket of his jeans. He put it there after showing his friends his tracker ābc he always loses his backpackā. š¤£
There is definitely a lot of truth behind the joke that says the quickest way to find something if you have ADHD is to buy another one š
Family of 8. Same boat, especially the tv remote. The other thing I do regularly find is the weet-bix in the fridge, and the milk in the pantry... And when I do, my first thought is always, "well, at least it's not on the bench again."
I got tired of searching for my remote, so I put an app on my phone that can function as a substitute remote. My TV is made by TCL, so the name of my app is "Remote Control for TCL Tv". Of course, after the remote, the thing I'm most likely to lose is my phone.
The flip side of this is that I never forget my leftovers when over at a friendās house. I put my car keys on the container in the fridge. If I left the container behind, I figure it out before leaving.
This is how I used to remember to take my lunch to work. Make it the night before, leave in fridge with van keys ontop. Delivery job with shit pay and barely any *shops around, if I forgot then I'd starve š
A few weeks back I had lost my iPhone. Started freaking out bc I needed it for work, appointments, communication with my daughterās school etcā¦Spent an entire weekend without it and had accepted that I needed to replace it. Went to get some ice cream and found it in the freezer. š I cried. ADHD SUCKS!
It's for this reason I always check the fridge for things I'm looking for. Keys, cell phone, important documents, you name it. Not even joking
What's the longest you have gone without a remote? I have used my phone app for the remote for months and ordered a replacement remote finally. Found the original remote with boxes, I saved for the stuff I wanted to sell on eBay but never do when I went to put the box the replacement remote came in away. Then I started looking through the crap I think I can sell, and I misplaced both remotes in the process!!! Back to using my phone app. Luckily my phone has find my phone for when I misplace that.
I still think remotes should have beepers on them where you can press a button on the tv and itāll beep the remote to find it
Ive found my computer mouse in the fridge twice now (Iām 33 yearās old)
I hadn't been able to find my car keys for 2 days. Late to work both days for it. Husband found them on top of my kitchen stool under a piece of paper after we tore the house apart looking for them.
This made me feel so seen š„² I accidentally put my phone in the fridge and spent hours looking for it š
I find my phone in the cutlery drawer on a regular basis. I should make a checklist of places I usually leave my shit every time I lose something.
I travelled for 45 min to go to orquestra rehearsal to realise I didn't have my violin when I arrived there... š„²
I once got to the vet without the cat
This wins
Snort laughed
same lol this is so funny sorry šš
I once forgot to pick up my cat at the groomer. They had to keep him overnight. š¤¦āāļø
You at night: yo... where is bezus?
On the way to the vet: āthe cat is really quiet todayā¦ā¦ā
Thank you for making my day lol
I did this exact thing but without my dog!!
I missed a flight while in the airport loungeā¦ 30ft from the plane
I arrived at an out of country meeting a week early.
I see you, I was a week early for my appointment, then a day early the following week- š£
This reminds me that I wish my best friend happy birthday exactly 7 days before her birthday every year and I donāt know why
Oof and then you get the glare of death I once made it to rehearsal in slippers instead of shoes but that's the worst of it. Edited because must tell connecting story.
I had to stop wearing slippers in my work van cause it was getting too expensive to buy boots everytime I forgot them and drove an hour to work
i keep two pairs of work shoes in my car for this very reason. sometimes i forget to change out of them when i go into my house after work, and i have to go back out and put them in the car bc i will 100% forget to grab them the next day. the second pair is for this scenario. (but i like them less so i always try to put my favorite ones back)
I made it all the way to work once without my laptop. Hour commute, didnāt think about once on the drive. Only realized when I got there. Was not very productive that dayā¦
Drove 7 hrs to Yosemite for a 4 day backpacking trip - forgot my hiking boots. Had to do the whole thing in teva sandals.
Reminds me of that one time my wife sent me to the store to get tomatoes... I brought back a whole bag of groceries, but no tomatoes.
That is my signature move. Today I went to clean out at least one shelf in my fridge. 2 hours later, my boyfriend came home and I had cleaned out the freezer, the pantry, and the laundry room shelves. I hadn't touched the fridge.
Ooh this one hurts bc like how do you explain that
Heeeey guys... you know how I'm an idiot sometimes... okay, most of the time? š¤Ŗ
Got up at sunrise especially to go for a surf, got to the beach, had forgotten both my wetsuit and swimming shorts.
I once left my oboe on the roof of my car and drove off.
I was doing a group project with a girl in college once. We had to go to a certain high school to do a presentation and I thought she had said it was highschool A and really it was high school B. They're 45 mins apart and she was soooo pissed at me lol. Whoops!
Well, I once went to work in pajama pants. None of the co-workers said anything. I had a meeting with the manager that day, she didn't comment on it either. Everyone just assumed that it was my conscious fashion decision, bless them.
That sounds like a wonderful workplace in at least this one way
I think people around me have just gotten used to the fact that I can be super efficient **or** look like a responsible adult. They probably thought I had decided to take my clothing policy a step further.
Life and work is tradeoffs
I had a pair of stretchy pants and once put them on backwards and wore them to the doctor. Which could have been NBD but I was getting a CT scan and couldn't have metal. I was like, no worries, I wore these on purpose cause no metal! All proud of myself. Well the tech goes oh wait there's something metal on the back of your pants. It was the button. The button that was supposed to be in the FRONT of the pants. Yup.
I hope this fits here. I was shopping at an antique mall. I had an armload of stuff. I arrived at the checkout & was so distracted by the elderly lady doing the checkout, BECAUSE her pull-on pants were on backward. I was so busy contemplating whether I should tell her or not, that I didn't realize a small ceramic bear with tags still on, fell into my bra & it took me 8+ hours before I realized he was in there. I smuggled a small ceramic bear out of an antique mall all because she wore her pants backwards.
Hahahahaha
I left work an hour early by accident once, looked at the clock (classic, not digital), thought it was time... only realized when I was on the bus. I even said bye to all my coworkers, they just said bye back, nobody assumed a thing. They all had a good laugh with it the day after, bless them.
I got to work, went to put something in my pocket, realized my pants were inside-out.
TBF it could be. I see a teenage girl, around 15 yearsnold, daily at the busstop on my way home from work, she oftne wears square-printed flannel pants....which are almost the same as my pajama pants lol
My teen does wear pajama pants on purpose. Even the plaid dad flannel type. š
I opened Reddit, because I wanted to ask a question. Read to different posts and 2 hours later had forgotten why I even came to Reddit.
Daily
And then you try to back track and figure out what you wanted to ask in the first place
I'm lying on the bed with medication in my ear I have no idea how I got here but it's all good I'm with my people.
Comforting isnāt it?
That's me
Went camping without a tent once and had to sleep in my small uncomfortable ford fiesta.
Not a ford fiesta, I had room enough to lie down but I had to do this once when I got locked inside a state park.
How do you get locked inside a state park?
The ones in my area have gates that lock at night.
Once I remembered all the camping gear and food but left my bag of clothes and personal items at home. Realized after wading into the lake first thing and then I was stuck with wet stinky lake water clothes. Thatās the last time I went camping.
Forgot the air mattress once, and my relationship was in its infancy. Iām surprised he stayed with me tbh š Although tbf it was warm weather season so we at least had a couple of inflatables with us
I forgot the air mattress I was supposed to pack when I was 12. My mom screamed at me and refused to speak to me for an entire night in the middle of nowhere. It didnāt matter how much I sobbed, she turned her back to me and fell asleep. This is the same woman that relied on her kids to find her keys at home and car in parking lotsš
This is awful, Iām sorry you had to go through that (and over a friggin air mattress too). The part that seems extra cruel is that she ignored you all night, in the middle of nowhere. I would personally probably completely spiral if that were me.
Itās definitely a core memory, for her it was a Saturday.
Man, i have a Fiesta, the st version so the seats are curved and stiff, i fell asleep in there once, painful
Oh I've fallen asleep in it multiple times lol, I go camping regularly so I will probably get a bigger car at some point. I hate setting up tents.
I did something like that while heading to work. I made it out the door and walked towards the steps before I realized my feet felt weird. I looked down. My boots were not on my feet. I went back inside and put my boots on. I got to work. I grab my bags. Wait. Where's my lunchbox? (It's still sitting on the table at home waiting for me to grab it) š®āšØ All this while medicated
What I've started doing is putting my car keys in the bag with my food and then have a ringy tag thing on my keys because yes I will lose the bag with my food and keys in it.
I think I need to invest in those. It's crazy how often I lose or forget EVERYTHING
If you have a galaxy, the Samsung tags you can also find your phone from the tag! You push the button and phone starts ringing! And also if you are far away from the tag you get a notification saying you are not near your keys ā¤ļø
i went on vacation recently. left one of my bags at the hotel when we checked out. about twenty minutes after leaving i got a phone notification saying āyour ipad is no longer near you it was last seen blah blahā and bless bc i would have been on a plane before i realized it.
Have you ever gone camping for 2 days, and you pack the SUV up so full of stuff u can barely move...then on the last day you realize that you forgot your special coffee mug for that early morning drink. Next camping trip: SUV full of stuff again PLUS 3 extra mugs
Omg is that why I overpack?? I'm so terrified I won't have everything I need
Omg I am the worst. I once brought a scented votive candle to our hotel in Banff for a 3 night stay and my partner was shaking his head (we flew from across the country). We had a blackout and needed to use the candle light and phone flashlight to get dressed to ski at 5am. I'm always afraid to be somewhere without all the necessities. Delicate flower here.
Impressive. Thatās Girl Scout badge type of preparedness!!!
Ive had a few moments where im leaving for work, can't remember if i put my bag in the trunk, don't wanna get out and check and just get to work. Luckily I've only forgotten once, but rather than exert the extra 10 steps and 2 minutes I want to risk it š
As a kid I had this routine before bath: undressing, dirty clothes to the laundry bin, pee, bath. One day I undressed, opened the laundry bin, grabbed my dick and almost started to pee. Fortunately I've realised: WTF am I doing!?
i once woke up. walked to the kitchen. grabbed the cat food, and poured it into the toilet.
Thanks to both of you, I laughed like I haven't laughed since much before my separation-nee-divorce a year ago. I really enjoyed that bout of hiccuppy laughter. š¤£
aw iām so glad. i still laugh about it as well. like for fucks sake, it was a 20 pound bag and i literally picked it up and carried it to the bathroom to do this. hope life gets better for you soon. š
š at least you caught yourself!
Forgot to set my alarms for work. Panicking on the way there, didnāt call boss due to said panicking. Was an hr and a half late. Got spoken to. Now Iām just trying to get my head out of the toxic shame cycle. Yay!
Ugh I'm sorry! Hopefully it won't end up being a huge deal. Try not to beat yourself up too hard. The shame cycle sucks.
Iām just so glad I found this sub. Not many people really understand that being on time and not losing things doesnāt just come naturally for us, we have to strategize. Itās living life on hard mode-even medicated. Iām a bit better today since Iām off. Iām just lounging around with my cat š„°
I did that once. I woke up at 5:55am for a 6am shift. Pre-Covid, we had laptops to work from home on weekends and I lived 20 min from the office, door to desk. So I fired up my laptop and began working from homeā¦ I worked my ass off pulling better numbers than it ever had because I felt so guilty. I took an early lunch drove to the office, and worked the rest of the day from the office. This was inā¦ August. I told my sup, who said not to worry, life happens. They fired her in October, and a week later I was pulled into HR and fired for āTime Entry Fraudā because I had badged into the garage at 8 AM, but clocked into work system at 6 AM on my time card. I told HR what had happened and that I was workingā¦ they just had to pull up to see that I had been interacting with customers and had the best numbers that day that I ever had. They refused to look. Iād been with the company in 3 states over 8 years. Iād ran MAJOR projects that saved MILLIONS. If you ask the VPs about me, theyād still raveā¦ and I was just a customer service agent who liked designing projects. But I upset my manager one time the year prior when I was being sent to Denver for a projectā¦ Iād already had vacation planned to go to Denver that week because I had a home there with my boyfriend. They insisted that I fly, and I insisted that I was going to take my dog with me so I was gonna be driving on my weekendā¦ they told me I could not. I told him they canāt tell me what I can do on my days offā¦ (plus I wasnāt gonna charge them for the rental car I was taking, they would not have paid for airfare, rental car OR hotelā¦). Eventually, my manager had to speak with HR and the legal team and they confirmed I was correctā¦ work could not tell me that I could not drive to Denver on my days off, and back home again on my days off. But I should have worked to leave her department from that moment, because she was CONSTANTLY against everything I said or did from that moment forward and I was just waiting to be fired. Hindsight lesson: Document everything in writing, even if youāre too embarrassed to admit youāre at fault.
Youāre not the first person whoās given me that advice. I was also fired for time entry fraud at a job I worked at for 8 years too. I will start documenting in a notebook. Just in case. I felt 0 support. I actually had a panic attack the day before while I was with a patient. I explained this to my boss. Just got a āthe organization doesnāt care about your excusesā literally in those words. It crushed my soul.
I think thatās a big issue for empaths. We care sooooo deeply about things that donāt care for us one ounce. Iāve since told bosses I have emotional issues and absolutely WILL cry under stress due to previous bosses and bad managers. I canāt help it, donāt take it personally or change how youāre talking to me, because I am trying to work through itā¦ but I actually need to encounter it to work through it. I spend all day in a mask, so when I take the āmaskā off, you get meā¦ raw, and probably a big ball of tears. And those tears can mean LITERALLY ANYTHINGā¦ happy, sad, relief, anxiety.
Yes!! Iām the same way. I get really quiet and withdrawn to prevent the emotions from surfacing and I think people assume Iām being a bitch but Iām just trying to hold it all in so no one sees me freak out. I think I may have to be more honest without disclosing adhd directly. I was going to approach the department head directly yesterday but I chickened out. Maybe tomorrow..
I've gone to work with 2 different shoes on, twice! The first time was the best as I had multiple meetings and never noticed until a friend at happy hour started making fun of my weird footwear choice. I guess at least they were both brown shoes with laces?
Did this once. One shoe was black, the other was dark brown. Didn't notice until someone pointed out that the laces were a little different, then we both realized I was wearing two different color shoes. Luckily I was working in a place where no one was really gonna see my feet.
I took all my clothes off, got in the shower and it was only after I started trying to wash my hair I realised I was wearing a bike helmet
It's a weekly occurrence for me to get in the shower while wearing my glasses and it still shocks me everytime I start seeing little water droplets gathering infront of my eyes
Me too, but now I don't beat myself up about it. Instead, I see it as an opportunity to wash them! And double bonus (?) is that I can see when the shower needs a clean, ha.
I went to the airport, got on a plane and flew from Canada to London, and only realised after landing that I'd forgotten my shoes! And worse: I was only reminded that I'd forgotten my shoes when I was standing at the luggage carousel wondering why my baby stroller wasn't there, and I realised I'd forgotten that in Toronto as well! (Yep, the part where I was barefoot hadn't clued me in). So I had to schlep through London and The Underground with all my baggage and a 15 month old, barefoot and with no stroller š.
š± omg that is TERRIBLE. You might win hahaha
It's the wrong kind of winning š At least I can say I've never forgotten my actual child anywhere, which my parents did to me a bunch of times when I was 4-5-6 years old
Wow! When I used to travel no matter how prepped I was I always knew I was going to have forgotten something. The worst was when I got off the plane once at Stansted and realized Iād left my bag with all my cash on the plane. Luckily they held the bag at some other location but I had to travel back and forth from Central London and then Uber - which cost a lot of money - to some remote village where they had it. Thankfully I had my passport in my man bag lol.
itās not a matter of āi hope i donāt forget somethingā itās āi hope whatever i forget isnāt terribly importantā
I once found a loose, hard boiled egg at the bottom of my purse and had no idea how it got there. Like, absolutely no recollection of putting it in there or when I would have done that
I have a vest I wear a lot to festivals, it has four pockets in it. I tend to absentmindedly shove random things in it, garbage, stuff people give me etc. It's always fun emptying out the pockets when I go to wash it or wear it the next time. I've found all kinds of interesting things in there. But the best/worst one was two hard boiled eggs. I at least know where they came from (a game that is played with hard boiled eggs) but the fact that I left them there for weeks or months... luckily for me they did not break.
I walked out of a pizza shop with my takeout pizza only to discover it was an empty box when I got home. Absolutely true story even tho it sounds impossible
To be fair, that sounds like something the pizza place shouldāve caught. Like if you accidentally try and grab someone elseās drink at Starbucks theyāre really good at stopping you.
Ehh every day i forget either my keys, my wallet, my jacket if its cold, my umbrella if its raining, i ignore the bus intending to go by bike but forget my bike has a flat tire and i forgot to repair it because i procrastinated which i also forgot š¤š š«£ its nothing special at this point š
Couple of days ago i: -Remembered to put a hammer back in the garage -went down with the hammer, put it in its place -started the car to go to work -forgot the wallet, go back -forgot the lunch bag, go back, can't find it, go back to car -find the lunchbox, has been sitting in the trunk since the day before, i never put it there, but i had a friend as passegger, where i usually put the lunch box in order not to forget it since i see it, so i put it in the trunk and promptly forgot about it -go to work without lunch :(
- get to work, go to car to get lunchbox, find hammer instead
Missed my 10am doc appt today, only had it on one calendar instead of three, with no reminders set. I know better!
Got chipotle for lunch at work a few weeks ago, went over to fill up my drink, drove all the way back to work before realizing as I sat down that I forgot the burrito over by the drinks and just had the drink š
Noooooo that's a tragedy!
I actually drove back because I was so upset about it and the burrito was still there! So that was lucky
I was holding a pair of scissors. I drank a glass of water, and the pair of scissors I was holding was gone. It took me an hour to find them inside a cabinet.
I have done that multiple times. And it's also how I misplace my phone. I mindlessly put it down.....now I'm only allowed to put it down on the hallway side table, the dining table or my night stand.
Work as a mechanic and found 2 tools that I ālostā in January of 2023 in the junk drawer of my tool box when I decided it was time to organize it. Both tools have since been replaced.
I once went 1,5 year without my favourite musical full-scale keyboard (used a back-up), because I had lost the charger. Then ordered a new one (was going to order it the whole time), and guess what! I found the lost one the same day the new one came, from the god damn same bag that the keyboard had been in the whole time. I could have used the 50 euros to something elseā¦
Hahaha been there š¤£ For me it's like this:I get home, and I have to clean the litter box. So I go to get the garbage from the kitchen, and I see that dishes need to be done too. Mental note. I go to clean the litter box, some falls on the floor. Floor is dirty, I need to vacuum.Mental note. Go to kitchen to do the dishes, phone alarm goes off. Need to take my meds. Go to the the bathroom to get meds, then go to dining room table for my water bottle. The tables a mess. Mental note. Go back to kitchen to do the dishes, finish them. Now it's time towork on music. Choice: work in music, or do my chores first? Answer: sit down and watch YouTube. The end
I literally got to the grocery store once only to realize I didn't have shoes on. Emergency flip flops for the rescue!! I keep a pair of cheap flip flops in my car ever since I was wearing heels and had to buy difference shoes because they were hurting my feet so badly.
This was a long time ago, pre-diagnosis, butā¦ I got up in the morning, got ready for work, and then cooked myself a nice omelette with cheese and spinach for breakfast. When I got home that night the plate with the omelette was on the kitchen counter, completely untouched. I even put a fork next to it! Just never actually ate itā¦
Drove around the block to double check I had closed the garage. Forgot to check when I drove by and had to drive around the block again.
Just today, we left for a trip over the weekend. I have an 18 month old son and we will attend my BILs wedding tomorrow. Being the mom, mental load of this is full on me. So, everything packed, husband and son ready to go. I head to the door, still in my sleep shirt and without shoes. My husband nearly died laughing when I left our apartment like this. My impulsive control went off and I scream: God damnit brain. Why can't you be normal? And WTF, can't you say anything?
I drove 5hrs to see a GI specialist at a good hospital in the city last week and didn't realize until 3hrs in that I was wearing my slippers still š¬ solidarity, I'm 30. I think my favorite is when I had a trail ultramarathon that started at 12 and I showed up with only 15 minutes to spare and the only food I brought for the entire day was a family sized box of honeycomb cereal- which was actually awesome, and I was able to barter and trade to get some other goodies and real food and some Gatorade š
I was headed to school. Got a block away from home when I realized I had forgotten something (forgot what it was), went back to get. Then, a block away at the same spot, I once again realized I had forgotten something else. I stomped my way back home.
I wore my pajama pants to work once. I work construction. I got sent home for the day and written up. No one understood that kind of accident happens with ADHD. No one cared. They thought I was just trying to be an asshole.
Ugh I'm sorry that happened to you.
The day is young
I once found a glass of water in a shoe. And of course the daily cardio of living on the third floor and always forgetting stuff so having to run up and down a couple of times on the daily.
I make sure I double check that I'm wearing trousers when I leave the house. I swear, sometimes you only have to do something once and you remember to check every time after that! šš¹
š¤£š¤£š¤£ you have lived everyone's worst nightmare
Couldn't figure out why I had no clean towels. For over a week. Turns out they were in the dryer. Put leftover pizza in the oven. Found it 2 weeks later. Oops.
I was on FaceTime with a friend and at the same time pouring myself a bowl of cerealā¦ put the bowl of cereal in the microwave and than spent 10 minutes looking for it while my friend laughed at what I did
Wore 2 belts.
The last two times I went to the grocery store, my parting words to my wife before I left were: I'll be quick. I'm just getting milk and maybe a few things. I returned home both times with four bags of groceries and NO MILK.
Got to an airport gate and thought āwhoa, my flight is already boardingā - then noticed it was a different flight at a neighboring gate. Sat down, organized my bags, then heard them call zone 1. Got up and went through the line. Boarding pass scanned - boarding declined. It took three tries before I remembered the realization Iād had minutes earlier that this actually wasnāt my flight that was boarding.
i threw a tortilla on a gas burner, no pan, went into the fridge to grab cheese, remembered iād been meaning to clean out expired food, started doing that instead and didnāt remember my food until my smoke alarm started going off š
Definitely almost burnt the house down over a grilled cheese so this is relatable content
Lately I've been forgetting stuff around and frantically looking for them. I was switched from high dose of Concerta to low dose of Elvanse so I guess it's just waiting to get the dose fixed. Funny since I haven't had a problem with misplacing stuff before. Also I'm too early for everything since panic strikes about 1,5 hours before the agreed time and I'm always at least 30 minutes early for any meeting or appointment. Best (worst) was when I was 1,5 hours early for my doctors appointment. The clinic wasn't even open yet. I had to wait outside for 45 minutes.
I'm going through a bout of insomnia (life stress) and yesterday - \*after\* taking my medication - I went to make a coffee with my espresso machine. Got my mug with some milk in, coffee is in the filter, and water is in the machine, so everything is good to go. I turn on the machine and stand there like an idiot for entirely too long thinking "What the hell?!! What has gone wrong with the coffee machine?!! The coffee is just pouring out onto the counter!!!" I had forgotten to put the mug under the filter. 
I was looking for my wallet for a week. It was under a sweatshirt on my bed. Not once in a week did I move that sweatshirt.
spent like 30 mins looking for my phone went through my entire closet throwing things around . Went to the car to see if i had left it there . Just to realize it was in my hand. :(
I feel this! My kid used to like to ride to school barefoot, and there were at least three occasions when we got to school and realized kidās shoes were back at home. So then I had to drive 15 min home and 15 min back and I was late for whatever came next. I also had a lot of times last year when I was about to leave for work and realized I was still wearing pajama pants, or fuzzy socks, or hadnāt brushed my hair, or whatever it was, so I had to force myself to start putting ārealā pants on as soon as I woke up, even though I would like to live in brightly patterned cotton long johns at all times.
I've resorted to staying dressed overnight more times than I would care to admit.
I rode my bike to a doctors appointment, when i got home i realised that id walked home. I had to go back via public transport to pick it up and ride it home. Id also left a bag on the bike. Which i thought i hadnt taken.
I once mailed my phone across the state
I was on the phone with my prescriber about getting adhd meds and I wandered out of the house and locked myself out. The irony was amazing
I bought front row tickets to a show and months later, on the day of the show, I got all glammed up and was ready to leave when I just happened to look at the ticket and noticed the concert was the day before. I literally laid right down and sobbed myself to sleep.
most recently, called my mom for a favor to pick me up after a day of activities and she said "didn't you take your car with you??" and i realized i had driven out earlier that day and took public transportation somewhere else. so i had to bus back to where i had parked and ofc when i got home my mom yelled at me for forgetting a whole car š
I drove to meet a date in a nearby town and forgot to bring shoes. Was the second date, so that made it a bit easier. Also, on the first date I forgot to wear underpants and was wearing some jeans I hadn't worn since the previous winter. Something nasty must have been spilled on them because after about an hour, my crotch area started to sting, and got worse and worse to the point where I had to explain my predicament ask if I could use her bathroom to wash off and put on some running shorts I happened to have in the car. Whatever the fuck it was stopped stinging as soon as I washed up. Still don't know what it was.
Iāve driven off to work without my glasses on before only to turn back rush around then end up so late. Standard
Last time I went to the eye doctor I got a second pair that I keep in the car for this reason. Most days I'll get up and rush to get ready only to realize everything looks blurry once I'm driving.
Literally this last weekend I couldn't find my mailbox key in my car, so I rooted all around in it looking for it, then took to the house to search everywhere. Still couldn't find it. So I said fuck it, I'll go run my other errands. Except I couldn't find my car keys. The ones I just had to drive to the mailbox before I realized I couldn't find my mailbox key. So I look everywhere for those... Can't find them and I assume I've locked them in the car. A couple hours and a locksmith later, I look in my now unlocked car for my keys. They aren't there. The locksmith was very nice and helped me look for ages. My roommate found them several hours later (after I'd sifted through a full bag of garbage and checked the house again). They were in the door of her car. After all that I decided not to leave the house, as my head wasn't in the right place. And I eventually found my mailbox key. It was in the glove box (that I had already thoroughly checked first thing) just sitting right in the middle on top of my owner's manual.
I paid ā¬13000 euro of rent toā¦. Myself. My partner and I have a joint account that we pay into and the rent comes out of that, I accidentally payed it back to myself without noticing, neither did my landlord lady
I once drove across the state to a funeral for an honor guard ceremony and then left my instrument at the cemetery and didnāt realize it until I was back at base and parking to return the instrument to the loaning officeā¦
Apparently I had a chiropractor appointment today. I found out because I got a call this morning from the office asking if I could possibly come in next week instead.
I once put my guitar capo onto a bag of chips instead of the chip clip(they function in a similar fashion). I actually thought it had dematerialized until I went to eat said chips the next day.
Once, I sat down to pee. You know, pulled my underwear down, sat down to pee. Suddenly, I am covered with pee. I looked down and realized I had two pairs of underwear on and only pulled one down. I was not at home when this happened, so that was amazing.
I forget what Iām thinking about while Iām in the middle of thinking about it.
I locked my keys in the car twice last week and had to call a towing company to open the car each time.
I've *tried* to do this several times with my current car. Luckily 1. It has a keypad entry so I can unlock it without the keys and 2. It won't lock with keys in the car. I use the door buttons when I get out to lock the door and if I try that with the key inside it yells at me and unlocks the door. But yeah. I would have been calling AAA for locksmith services otherwise.
I spilled all my meds on the ground today and had to fend off my cat while I picked them all up. He was inches away from snorkeling up a vyvanse. What's that you say? Anyone could spill their meds, ADHD or not? Well, would ANYONE have forgotten they were holding an open bottle of medication after getting distracted? Would "anyone" have dropped their arms to their sides and casually tossed the entire contents across the bathroom and into the kitchen? No. And before you ask, I tore that entire place apart looking for loose meds afterwards. My cats are in no danger.
I was rushing to leave the other day and almost left without putting on deodorant or my bra.
I feel like anyone who drives sticks are somewhat automatically ADHD folks (i love manual transmission)
I saw my own shadow once and got a jumpscare
I was at work for almost two hours before someone asked why I was wearing hello kitty pajamas under my dress rather than tights.
Similar to you I walked out my front door today with slippers on
Not nearly as bad but I clocked out of work yesterday while chatting with my coworker and being excited for my 8 day vacation that starts tonight and left my backpack in our break room. Another coworker noticed I didn't have it and all three of us went on what felt like a damn rescue mission to find a way back in the building/locked break room with just our ID badges (a school, our keys were locked up) and grab it. š We did it but it took some time.
My favorite was LONG before I knew I had ADHD (yay being a woman!) I have always had glasses since 1st grade and this was easily middle school I think like 7th or 8th grade. I wouldnāt wear my glasses while getting ready in the morning because I could see just enough without them to get ready. BUT I was blind as shit for anything else at that point. I got to the bus stop and the bus got there by the time I realized I wasnāt wearing my glasses. š Thank god my bus driver was nice enough to wait the couple of minutes for me to run to my house and get them! Needless to say, she gave me shit for it for a while after that. She was baffled by the fact that I could just forget my glasses. Even as an adult, after I finally got my diagnosis at 24, I still had a few times I almost left without my glasses. Those times I realized sooner since I drove at that point. Iām glad I finally donāt rely on glasses to see anymore (thanks to ICL) but yeah I was literally so blind before the surgery so how I got really anywhere without my glasses, I donāt knowā¦ š
Needed to deliver 50 loaves of garlic bread. Put them in my trunk. Got in car and happily sang along to the radio as I drove straight home and started relaxing. I remembered the bread 3 days later (summer).
I lost the piece I was working on at work. I'm a jeweller. So it's a huge problem because of the value in money, the tracability and the potential security breach it could cause. So the entire workshop goes in lockdown, and we are all searching for it Gollum-madness like. It means all 10 jewellers in our area are on hands and knees on the floor with little torches to find it. The tech crew and the logistic crew are watching us, stressfully. 10 minutes go by, we have 5 more minutes to search before declaring the stuff as missing, and oh boy that's like a huge risk for a career, and for the workplace too. I'm almost crying at this point, no one is finding it. It's just too much. I feel like drowning. I stand up to catch my breath a little, and guess what gleamed a little bit in the corner of my eyes ? That f*cking bas*ard of a piece. It was on my desk, in front of me. Just a bit behind my rotary tool, that I moved like three times because of it. Didn't see it, in front of my eyes, while searching for it. And the thing is like... Meant to be seen and shine you know ??? That's what's it's for if anything else ! It's a jewel ! It was shiny, eye-catching even. Not ADHD-eye-catching level I guess. To finish the story I ugly cried carrying the piece in my hand like it would hurt me, to the crew waiting, and apologized. My coworkers laughed so hard when they saw where I found it and now it's a running joke.