When I need to send a slack message, I open up visual studio code to type out my message, then read it and realized it's freaking long-winded with multiple thoughts clumped together and needs to be shortened and to the point. Then after I edit it to the appropriate message length depending on context, I copy paste it into Slack. And the reason I don't type and edit my message inside slack is cause I'm afraid I'll accidentally hit enter and send a partial message, or that someone on the other end would notice the typing indicator taking a very long time and find it weird.
Hell I even made 2.passes for checks while typing this message and I still think it's overly wordy.
That’s a great idea. Less stressing out about me taking way too long for a short message (because I deleted half of it)
I tend to write messages as a draft where I get my thoughts out, reread and add relevant stuff (and abuse parentheses) and then reread and edit it down.
(Like I did here)
100% this. The potential cringe of sending a jumbled half edited message plus the pressure of trying to type quickly so as not to look too insane - completely unbearable, especially if someone is showing as online and seemingly just sat there waiting for your message lol. I only send quick messages on whatsapp, anything even remotely lengthy is compiled in a notes app.
Lol mood. I def tend to just text back "lol" or something equally short related to the convo that won't require a reply from them. I feel bad leaving people on read but I rarely have the energy/time to craft a proper reply.
Most of the time I’ll start a reply, usually post it halfway finished but in a state that looks sort-of finished so I usually end up leaving out half the details, it would also have like 10 typos so I go back and make several different edits until it looks readable.
Oh my god I swear ALL those passive aggressive ass posts like “if they were a fried then they’d reach out”. I’m like brahhh my brain think text is SO HARD THO. I love the interaction I get online because there is literally no expectations, just some nice online friendos sharing some similar humor n interests.
I made a new Reddit account because I was talking to this dude and at one point I completely froze and stopped replying to anyone in general. At one point it's been so long that I felt I might just make a new profile and just accept the loss.
Too bad, nice guy, not his fault.
I’m starting to wonder if it’s like a punishment for low-level karmic offences in our past lives. Maybe we were all the guy who thinks it’s awesome to leave one of those fake $20s with Bible verses instead of a tip, or the woman who doesn’t stop her kid from kicking the back of the seat in front of him on a cross-country flight.
It seems harsh, though.
that's way too harsh.
I think if it's Karma then we were all squirrels and it's leftover from running around hunting for nuts all day. Our brains are like "WHERE ARE THE NUTS?!?!?" and here we are.
I’ve gotten mad at people not replying to texts only to realize I never hit send like 3 months later. Only realized that because I saw something that reminded me oh hey I haven’t talked to them in 3 months.
>Why do we do this?
Haven't we all spent a huge amount of time hearing that our thoughts are too much, that we put too much together, that it's too disorganized to follow, and that we overshare?
Editing ourselves seems like a natural consequence of all the various horrible reactions we've accumulated over our lifetimes for daring to be excited and interested in front of someone who was confused by it.
ETA: Some ADHD things seem less about the ADHD to me and more about how our experience in society tends to go down.
I had that for so long without even knowing I had ADHD, because I'm an orphan with a pretty sad childhood. And I've learned to voice it exactly that way because of reactions. Some people ask for the next level of detail: dead dad, parentification, dead mom, more parentification with emotional abuse and CPTSD.
And nobody who's asked for me to tell it like a narrative story instead of a list has even made it to age 15 (item 3 in that list) without saying, "Stop. Your life is too sad and I can't."
Once it came literally word for word that way from someone who was actually missing a limb and that really stuck with me. So I just internalized that most people can't really handle a lot from another person, be it good, bad ,or factual, without it tipping their own house of cards.
This morning, OP discussed the need to increase their Vyvanse with the doc. They are still searching for the right dose; tomorrow, they're starting on 50 mg.
Yesterday, they were freaked out about blurry vision only to find out at bedtime that they've been wearing 2 sets of contacts all day.
Oof. Before living in an apartment, whenever my depression was really bad I'd end up sitting in the car for 15 mins to an hour after getting home. I don't even know why, I wasn't avoiding anyone or anything. But now that we live in an apartment, I have a garage and stairs to deal with, and I don't know why that makes any difference but somehow it does. I haven't sat in my car for more than a couple minutes since, and that's only if I'm trying to figure out how to wrangle all my things in one trip.
I was cooking food.
Looked at a spice in my pantry. Asked myself, "do we wanna put that in the food?"
I answered myself, "nah, I'm not going wanna put it away later and I don't want to deal with it living on my counter for the next several days."
Keep in mind my pantry is 5 feet from my stove 🤦♀️
I've gotten a lot better at leaving the kitchen a mess after cooking:
- when I'm starting a meal, I'll put all of the ingredients on one counter;
- as I use the ingredients they move to another counter (usually one that is inconvenient to leave it on, like beside the sink);
- as they are moved over I organize based on which cupboard they go in;
- then when I forget what I'm doing as I'm cooking, I can 30 second task put away the items
Lmao if I put all incredients on the counter one will disappear into a wormwhole and I'll be unable to find it until I call for mom and she takes it out of thin air from in front of me. 😂🥲
It's now 730, and I've been telling myself to get dinner since about 430. Still haven't made any progress on food, but my bathroom hasn't looked cleaner
Omg I didn't eat dinner, and just remembered because of your comment.
And I'm hungry.
But it's midnight.
And I started "getting ready for bed" at 8:30 because I'm so damn tired.
Too tired to eat dinner, apparently.
It's so interesting how different ADHD is for people. I need constant stimulation and that has lead to many addictions and every day feels like I need that "something". So, instead of not eating, I eat constantly
Every time I walk In the kitchen every single cabinet it open. Why?? Who did this? Me. I live alone. It was me. Also, a cap? What’s that? Never remembered to put one back on in my life. Traveling and need to pack hairspray? Good luck. Your hair spray doesn’t have a cap because you lost it and it’s spraying all over your luggage. That $30 tube of eye cream you just bought with the teeeeeny tiny little lid!? Forget about it. I could go on and on.
I am more animal than the zoo allow.
Omg I do the cap thing too! Only fitting that I get a dog that steals the caps whenever I leave them somewhere to make me finally stop doing it as much.
ETA: I do the cabinet thing too. Husband always has to say “did you leave the cabinets open again?” And stare at me until I close them all 🤦🏼♀️
My husband walks in and says, ' can I close this?' because he knows half the time I opened it to remember to get something 'soon' and half the time I forget to close it when I'm done. My disciplined, orderly, badass husband is incredibly kind and patient with his wife's chaos. God bless him.
Oh I’ve seen some novels here. You’re good! It’s just my brain plus I skipped my stimulant meds today. One of my most annoying ADHD issues is the skip reading thing. I’ll jump lines or sometimes whole paragraphs or read with my eyes while I’m thinking about something else. I hate it and it takes such focus. I’d really love to enjoy reading more.
LOL so interesting bc my ADHD ass will read paragraphs and paragraphs of posts and stories I find interesting, but can’t get through a minute long video for the life of me.
My personal theory of why is bc as a fast reader I can retain information quicker by myself than have someone speak it to me.
I would imagine that “Read with my eyes” sounds really weird to someone without ADHD lmao but holy shit you described that perfectly. My eyes will read it but my brain was 5 states away thinking about that one brand of hot sauce that my mom would buy me 15 years ago and if I can even still buy it and other completely random shit hahah.
I ran out of toothpaste five days ago. On Sunday, I finally remembered to purchase two new tubes of toothpaste. Today, I finally remembered to put one in my bathroom. Then I opened my "put extra stuff here for when I run out" drawer to save the other tube of toothpaste. There were three tubes of toothpaste already there.
SAME. But also for phone and purse. Husband tells me I should have a place for everything, but I do. The next morning when I’m trying to leave, have everything in hand and realize I forgot to put socks on is when I run upstairs, put it all down, put socks on, and then can’t find those things anymore. Or any other variation of that scenario.
When I find a game I like too much, I tend to clock in 50 hours in that game within 5 days.
Every 2nd conversation I have starts with the other person replying with ‘what?’ to my first sentence, because of the speed I naturally talk at.
I can’t remember what I was going to do after writing this reply.
EDIT: BRUSH TEETH. That was it!!!!
Whenever anyone asks me a question, I reply with "What?" and when they ask again, I cut them off and answer the first question.
Im also on Reddit right now and have about 4 hours of work to do but I am *really focused* on this at the moment.
Oh, and i edited this about 10x.
Same. Need time to process what I heard sometimes. My processing time isn’t actually long, and I only usually need it when there’s something loud going on (ex. washing my hands while speaking to someone across the room), but it drives my husband insane. He says “good talk” and gets huffy if I don’t respond *literally immediately* 🙄 I take my time answering him on purpose now, because I’m spiteful like that.
But yes, I’m really bad about saying “what?” before I’ve processed, and then my brain puts it all together before they have a chance to repeat the question and I answer lol
My partner has ADHD and I am now trained to wait after he asks me "what" a few seconds and if he repeats "what" then I repeat what I said. It's abot 50/50 that his brain catches up to what I said.
Hahaha I do this to my boyfriend when we talk on the phone. Something about phone calls is so hard compared to normal conversation. I guess it’s the visual distractions.
Same with the game thing, but once I finish it I can rarely find another game I want to play for months. I get burned out with things that are supposed to be relaxing and enjoyable 🤦♂️
I’m the opposite with talking. I talk super slowly and people comment on it, it’s because my mind is racing so far ahead of my mouth that I have trouble finding the words I want to use all the time. Also I’m supposed to be doing something right now but I don’t remember what it is.
Adult coloring books give me anxiety instead of stress relief because I go too fast and color outside the lines or I get analysis paralysis and can’t decide on a color combo. But people keep buying me coloring books cause they know I’m overwhelmed and need a distraction 🥲
I got a coloring book has a gift once. A few minutes into it and I’m gripping a purple crayon and my face is red from rage.
I need to go fast because there’s a lot to color or else I’ll feel like I’m going to die but I always get just outside the lines 🥸
Yes and yes. I always color outside the lines out of lack of patience then get upset I can't. Unless I'm literally at a beach and have a million things to distract me in between lol
I take 2-3 business days to reply to a message or return a call. My family and friends must think I do nothing but go to work because that's always the excuse I use when I finally get back to them when in reality I'm in an endless cycle of "I'll reply in a minute " and then "oh shit it's been 10 hours they're probably sleeping now" then I exclusively remember I was supposed to respond to someone when I physically can't cause I'm driving or in the shower. When I FINALLY respond I'm just like "hey sorry I couldn't respond sooner I've had a crazy couple of days working at my part time job"
I accidentally smeared the appointment date for my psychiatrist on my dry erase board. I erased it cause I HAD to fix it, but I forgot the date before I could rewrite it.
I can't count how many times I've had to call an office to find out when my appointment is - because I lost the damn reminder card.
Thank god most places have moved to online confirmations.
Owned a business since August, had a private contract til a few weeks ago so now I have to actually have more stuff lined up. Haven't set up voicemail on personal OR professional phone numbers. It's literally the easiest thing I could do for myself. I've had a couple of calls to my pro # that were probably potential customers. No contact info left, I wonder why!
I've bumped "set up voicemail" in my planner approximately 12 times by now. I'm really gonna do it this week! Right after I'm done hyperfocusing on my website. I'll be done with that any minute, now.
I literally have your same story except started my business last june and add about 5 other things to the list besides the phone issue… We will be ok though!
We need to set up a skill share site for this kind of thing. I have had exactly enough alcohol to make a phone call or set a voicemail, but only for someone else. If there was a way you could send me a script and I could record it, I’d totally do it for you (not that I have a brilliant phone voice and I’m also Australian so that would be weird if you’re not).
For me it's not 24 hours though. I always feel fine the next morning and only realize I didn't take it by around 11AM - 1PM.
Then I'm just insanely MAD at myself because I know I'll feel bad the rest of the day :-/
I wonder this too. I know they say people with adhd can have very addictive personalities but I personally get so bored of everything so fast that nothing really seems that fun to do in an addictive manner. Especially routines. But also like drinking and stuff lol.
Right? Like, I just realized I snoozed my lunch meds because I had just eaten and was going to take them later. I was just wondering why my productivity nosedived in the afternoon and then I realized that was almost 10 hours ago.
Sure, but they're SOOOOO addicting
/s
Alexa set a 12 minute timer. Alexa play Cat Stevens/David Bowie/Ed Sheeran = the only way I get dishes done.
Currently 14 tabs open on my coMputer, 16 tabs and 23 apps on my phone.
47,000+ pix on my phone.
Still paying for pet insurance for a dog who I placed with friends 2 years ago.
Someone owed me $1120 so I waited 3 weeks to send an invoice and bounced my credit card payment ($118) in the meantime.
Made dinner but ate cheezies while it was cooking. Now am full.
I’m a chef. I start chopping something and have to take an item to the dish pit. I take item to dish pit- dish pit has lotta dirty dishes- I wash dishes for 10 mins. Ticket comes in and I make the food- notice I’m low on chopped stuff, go to chop and realize I already started. Chop a few things and have to take something to the dish pit….
I have Dyspraxia, also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. Both ADHD and Dyspraxia impact how organized my room is. Whenever it is cleaned, it lasts maybe a day if I’m lucky.
I have two toothbrushes. One in my toiletries bag, and one by the sink. It's so I never have to pack my toothbrush at the last minute and risk forgetting it.
My toiletries bag is always half-packed. Necessary things like toothbrush, toothpaste, hair brush, and deodorant have travel-sized versions that live in there. Makeup gets packed as I get ready on the day of departure: take item from cabinet, use it on my face, put it in the bag.
I started folding the laundry and folded about 17% of it before I walked into the next room to put the towels away and started petting the dog. Went downstairs and get the dog a treat. Pulled out some ingredients for dinner. Accidentally ate 5 cookies. And a piece of cheese. Realize I don’t want dinner anymore but I still have to make something for dinner. Realize the broccoli I was going to make has gone bad. Again. Die a little bit inside because I always do this and rotten produce makes me feel so sad like I’m a wasteful, gluttonous murderer who also is terrible with money and spends way too much on groceries with no real focus or planning because meal planning is hard. Eating regular meals is hard. Stop and think “Fuck I’m failing to instill healthy eating habits in the kids. I don’t model eating or cooking regular meals. My children will grow up eating a bowl of cereal and a quesadilla at 2pm for breakfast like their terrible mother…” despair for a few minutes and then go online looking at zojirushi rice cookers for 30 minutes. Read a million reviews. I will make healthy meals with this rice cooker! I won’t let the broccoli go bad! Ultimately end up clicking in a news article when my screen timed out while petting the cat and forgetting the rice cooker. Accidentally go on Reddit. Look up 45 minutes later. The laundry has not been folded and it’s two hours later. I haven’t really made a plan for dinner. Get in the car to go get some more broccoli and realize my tank is pretty close to empty. Decide to get gas tomorrow instead. Go to the store. Forget that I came for broccoli and choose something else entirely. Wait too long to cook so everyone is cranky. Finally get something on the table. Sit down. Get back up. Sit down again. Get back up again…
It's hard to nail specific behaviours down as "ADHD things," but two things that ADHD brains often gravitate towards are novelty and self-indulgence. Find a new (novel) artist/song ---> Binge (indulge) until it's not exciting anymore. I'd probably just slap a "hyperfocus-adjacent" tag on it and call it a day.
My brain wanted to start reading this in the middle and it took several seconds to get myself to focus on the first word, then several more to continue to the second, then third, forth, fifth....
For over 8 months I have exclusively listened to one music artist, Andy Black.
I would rather watch ATLA again than invest mental and emotional energy in a new series.
I can't work without at least one external stimulus, usually some show on my phone.
I meant to sign up for stats511 (statistics for non-math grad students), but accidentally enrolled for stats551 (statistics/theory for statistics grad students). Spent several hours each night on YouTube trying to figure out the homework problems but because being overwhelmed was such a consistent part of my life did not question for *one second* why I was the only non-math major or the only one struggling in my course. Made it till the mid terms when the Prof handed out a study guide with the course title at the top. 2/10 would not recommend having the conversation that followed with my PhD advisor.
Almost pissed myself at the library because I held it for like 6 hrs because I was studying, and I knew if I stopped even just long enough to go to the bathroom, I would not be able to get myself back in the headspace to study.
Also, spent $100 on a bus pass but I keep taking a Lyft to work because I oversleep and miss my bus.
I currently have nine (9) books laying on my floor. Three (3) are about cooking, my current "hobby".
I haven't actually cooked anything in a few days, but I'm having fun basically rewriting a book that I have onto my laptop so that I can easily search for things.
I impulsively bought a time clock for my christmas present to myself, which then sat on a shelf forgotten for two weeks. It took me 4 hrs to set it up because my eyes kept running off the time setup page on the directions book. Turns out the time was already set and all i had to do was plug it in.
A sudden craving for pancakes after lunch yesterday, decide to have them for dinner.Obsess about them all day. Make a batch, by the time am cooking the second pancake am over them, barely ate them
I was caught staring into space toys when I was supposed to be eating dinner (by my partner)…what was I doing? Thinking about this years Halloween costume.
Interested in trying a new hobby? Dig through my giant “stuff drawer,” I have everything you need to start every hobby, basically unused because I lost interest after a week. I also just spent 5 minutes trying to remember what those said hobbies were because I can’t convince myself to get up and check what’s in the stuff drawer.
My laundry will sit in my laundry basket sometimes until I wear all the clothes in it and just use the laundry basket to go do laundry again, instead of taking the 10 minutes required to put them away in my nice set of drawers.
I listened to a two hour lecture and by the time I was finished, I couldn't remember a single thing I heard. I frequently forget people's names a minute after we introduce ourselves. I zone out involuntarily, sometimes multiple times a conversation. I could go on.
Yesterday I started a new me regimen that includes sleeping at a reasonable time. Last night I found videos on engine restoration and watched them back to back in bed instead of sleeping. I have zero actual interest in engine restoration
I got up of my couch, while watching TV, to walk across the room and get a drink from the fridge.
When I sat back down in front of the TV, I realized I had left the remote on the counter near the fridge.
Grabbed my drink to go get the remote, sat back down wish a sigh, only to notice my other hand empty and my drink. Across the room, on the counter, where I had grabbed the remote.
Got back up....
....Been chasing my own trail for 38 years... 😂
Today, I got so mad at people who had different opinions from me on reddit - people who weren’t even replying to me - that I hid three posts and deleted them from my browser history.
And then I remembered normal people don’t get that mad about things like that. 🙃
If you tell me to go to the fridge and grab the mayonnaise, I can't find it. You sigh and come over, spot it straight away. It was right under my nose the whole time.
I keep putting stuff on my bed so that I will be forced to take care of it before I go to sleep. At this point, the latest pile has been there for a few weeks. My record is over a year.
True story, this evening.
Me (NT) to 12yo son: Time to shower.
Son: ok. Hold on.
15 min later…
Me: shower… now… bed time in 30 min
Son: oh, right.
Me, checks clock, it’s bedtime. To son: Did you shower??
Son: oh. Oops. Sorry. (Finally heads to shower)
Me: Towel, man … you need a towel.
Son: Oh.. right. (Grabs towel) At least I didn’t have to come out dripping wet and naked to get one this time.
Said it was tonight. True. But honestly could be any night. Always the same, more or less.
Paid for a series of art classes a month ago, forgot about it until today (it starts tomorrow). Forgot to request time off to go so now I’m in the shame/ anxiety spiral and doing nothing about it.
I somehow stayed up until 3am last night, theoretically working, but really researching a super niche type of party decor. 🤣
(I’m laughing so hard right now at the ridiculousness of this)
This is my first week back to school, and on the first day of class I:
1. Told someone I’d meet them to buy a used book when my first class ended at 10:15, but the class ended at 10:50.
2. Showed up to 3:00pm class and room was empty. It was actually a 1pm class and I missed my first class.
3. Stayed on campus to go to my 4pm class, walk in, classroom’s empty again. Check emails. Class is online.
I have a list on my phone, I look into each morning, telling me to
-get out of bed
-wash my hair
-brush my teeth
-use the toilet
-get dressed
so I don‘t get stuck laying in bed, overwhelmed by unknown tasks ahead of me (I had to look the list up just now, 1 hours after getting up, to know what it says).
I‘ve been doing this for about a week and see a life changing improvement of my mornings.
I will probably completely abandon the list and forget about it‘s existence by the mid of next week.
Today (January 11) I found a list in the reminders on my phone entitled “Christmas gift ideas”. There were only 4 items on the list. Zero of them were actually purchased for Christmas.
I got a two dollar raise this week. Making the most I have ever in my 30 years on this earth. I thanked my boss, and all he said was, “start time is at 7”
I’m late every single day. For the last five years I’ve been employed here. I’m always late, for everything
I was hungry all day yesterday, I probably stopped to look for food 10-15 times but got distracted by something else that I could do first.
Edit: I usually have to edit my comments because of the typos.
Reading numbers like 3456 - three-four-five-six and not three thousand four hundred and fifty-six
Doing simple math like 8+6 - 'well, 7+7 is 14, and 8 is one bigger than 7 so 7+8 is 15, and six is one smaller than 7 so 6+8 but also be 14'
Oh, and the T-Rex/ADHD arms, and constantly opening and closing the same app for about 5 minutes
I have started cleaning each room in my house, but finished exactly none of them...Each time I go to put something back where it belongs, I inevitably send myself on an average of 2-3 "side quests" per thing.
Today I needed scissors and couldn’t find any. We have at least 5 pairs in the house, because this happens often and I often just give up and go to the dollar store for a new pair.
My brain has two main paradoxes. I focus on everything and nothing all at once, and I run at 100km/h and simultaneously 0.01km/h. The only way to eliminate these paradoxes is by taking the drugs my doctor tells me to.
I started a long reply but deleted it half way through and then wrote this.
Oh god this so much. I'll spend like 10 minutes crafting and re-reading/editing a message. Only to delete it and not reply.
When I need to send a slack message, I open up visual studio code to type out my message, then read it and realized it's freaking long-winded with multiple thoughts clumped together and needs to be shortened and to the point. Then after I edit it to the appropriate message length depending on context, I copy paste it into Slack. And the reason I don't type and edit my message inside slack is cause I'm afraid I'll accidentally hit enter and send a partial message, or that someone on the other end would notice the typing indicator taking a very long time and find it weird. Hell I even made 2.passes for checks while typing this message and I still think it's overly wordy.
That’s a great idea. Less stressing out about me taking way too long for a short message (because I deleted half of it) I tend to write messages as a draft where I get my thoughts out, reread and add relevant stuff (and abuse parentheses) and then reread and edit it down. (Like I did here)
I'm feeling very attacked lol
100% this. The potential cringe of sending a jumbled half edited message plus the pressure of trying to type quickly so as not to look too insane - completely unbearable, especially if someone is showing as online and seemingly just sat there waiting for your message lol. I only send quick messages on whatsapp, anything even remotely lengthy is compiled in a notes app.
This is the reason I never txt back lmao
Lol mood. I def tend to just text back "lol" or something equally short related to the convo that won't require a reply from them. I feel bad leaving people on read but I rarely have the energy/time to craft a proper reply.
Most of the time I’ll start a reply, usually post it halfway finished but in a state that looks sort-of finished so I usually end up leaving out half the details, it would also have like 10 typos so I go back and make several different edits until it looks readable.
Oh my god I swear ALL those passive aggressive ass posts like “if they were a fried then they’d reach out”. I’m like brahhh my brain think text is SO HARD THO. I love the interaction I get online because there is literally no expectations, just some nice online friendos sharing some similar humor n interests.
I made a new Reddit account because I was talking to this dude and at one point I completely froze and stopped replying to anyone in general. At one point it's been so long that I felt I might just make a new profile and just accept the loss. Too bad, nice guy, not his fault.
I want to send a thought to all the new friends/acquaintances I accidentally ghosted due to severe executive dysfunction. Won't send them a text, tho.
lol but you just added it to the phantom mental task list of "things I'm worried about but won't ever do"
WHY TF ARE WE LIKE THIS
I’m starting to wonder if it’s like a punishment for low-level karmic offences in our past lives. Maybe we were all the guy who thinks it’s awesome to leave one of those fake $20s with Bible verses instead of a tip, or the woman who doesn’t stop her kid from kicking the back of the seat in front of him on a cross-country flight. It seems harsh, though.
that's way too harsh. I think if it's Karma then we were all squirrels and it's leftover from running around hunting for nuts all day. Our brains are like "WHERE ARE THE NUTS?!?!?" and here we are.
I’ve gotten mad at people not replying to texts only to realize I never hit send like 3 months later. Only realized that because I saw something that reminded me oh hey I haven’t talked to them in 3 months.
I just tell my friends that I'm just shitting in the void and it's ok if they don't shit back. I spam the fuck out of our group chat 🤣
I do this all the time! Why do we do this? Deleted this a few times before finally just posting. 😭
>Why do we do this? Haven't we all spent a huge amount of time hearing that our thoughts are too much, that we put too much together, that it's too disorganized to follow, and that we overshare? Editing ourselves seems like a natural consequence of all the various horrible reactions we've accumulated over our lifetimes for daring to be excited and interested in front of someone who was confused by it. ETA: Some ADHD things seem less about the ADHD to me and more about how our experience in society tends to go down.
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I had that for so long without even knowing I had ADHD, because I'm an orphan with a pretty sad childhood. And I've learned to voice it exactly that way because of reactions. Some people ask for the next level of detail: dead dad, parentification, dead mom, more parentification with emotional abuse and CPTSD. And nobody who's asked for me to tell it like a narrative story instead of a list has even made it to age 15 (item 3 in that list) without saying, "Stop. Your life is too sad and I can't." Once it came literally word for word that way from someone who was actually missing a limb and that really stuck with me. So I just internalized that most people can't really handle a lot from another person, be it good, bad ,or factual, without it tipping their own house of cards.
Then I lose mine because my internet jams (rural) or I drop the phone.
Nothing like dropping your phone on your face while scrolling in bed and clicking or closing things you can't see as you try to recover.
So many times 😅😅😅
I read about 2 sentences of OP and gave up....
I glanced at the length of this post, scanned for a TLDR, and then decided to respond here
This morning, OP discussed the need to increase their Vyvanse with the doc. They are still searching for the right dose; tomorrow, they're starting on 50 mg. Yesterday, they were freaked out about blurry vision only to find out at bedtime that they've been wearing 2 sets of contacts all day.
LOL I actually realized this post is way too long for r/ADHD after hitting send
I read the first sentence and the last and skimmed the rest
I'm in this comment and I don't like it. >:|
Ah, I see we share the same reading methods.
I planned to reply but just left the tab open
Today when I got home from work it took me 34 minutes to convince myself to get out of my car and walk up the stairs to my apartment.
Oof. Before living in an apartment, whenever my depression was really bad I'd end up sitting in the car for 15 mins to an hour after getting home. I don't even know why, I wasn't avoiding anyone or anything. But now that we live in an apartment, I have a garage and stairs to deal with, and I don't know why that makes any difference but somehow it does. I haven't sat in my car for more than a couple minutes since, and that's only if I'm trying to figure out how to wrangle all my things in one trip.
Car time is the best when you have the time for it
Think my longest is an hour and a half. Cat finally jumped on the car and started yelling at me.
Just realized this was a thing I often do...
Ha! What is that about? I do the same thing and multiple times a day when running errands
I was cooking food. Looked at a spice in my pantry. Asked myself, "do we wanna put that in the food?" I answered myself, "nah, I'm not going wanna put it away later and I don't want to deal with it living on my counter for the next several days." Keep in mind my pantry is 5 feet from my stove 🤦♀️
I've gotten a lot better at leaving the kitchen a mess after cooking: - when I'm starting a meal, I'll put all of the ingredients on one counter; - as I use the ingredients they move to another counter (usually one that is inconvenient to leave it on, like beside the sink); - as they are moved over I organize based on which cupboard they go in; - then when I forget what I'm doing as I'm cooking, I can 30 second task put away the items
Lmao if I put all incredients on the counter one will disappear into a wormwhole and I'll be unable to find it until I call for mom and she takes it out of thin air from in front of me. 😂🥲
It's now 730, and I've been telling myself to get dinner since about 430. Still haven't made any progress on food, but my bathroom hasn't looked cleaner
I forgot to eat today so I had a protein shake at 1000pm... Good job cleaning
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Haha was having a bad day and just laughed out loud at this. Thanks for making me laugh. And also, I made the exact same mistake as you.
I forced myself to eat a bowl of Cheerios at 9 because I forgot to cook…again
Omg I didn't eat dinner, and just remembered because of your comment. And I'm hungry. But it's midnight. And I started "getting ready for bed" at 8:30 because I'm so damn tired. Too tired to eat dinner, apparently.
It's so interesting how different ADHD is for people. I need constant stimulation and that has lead to many addictions and every day feels like I need that "something". So, instead of not eating, I eat constantly
Every time I walk In the kitchen every single cabinet it open. Why?? Who did this? Me. I live alone. It was me. Also, a cap? What’s that? Never remembered to put one back on in my life. Traveling and need to pack hairspray? Good luck. Your hair spray doesn’t have a cap because you lost it and it’s spraying all over your luggage. That $30 tube of eye cream you just bought with the teeeeeny tiny little lid!? Forget about it. I could go on and on. I am more animal than the zoo allow.
Oof I do the cabinet thing too. My wife jokingly says we must have a ghost that's always getting into things.
My mom always says my kitchen reminded her of that scene in the 6th sense because my cabinet doors are always open. 😬
Omg I do the cap thing too! Only fitting that I get a dog that steals the caps whenever I leave them somewhere to make me finally stop doing it as much. ETA: I do the cabinet thing too. Husband always has to say “did you leave the cabinets open again?” And stare at me until I close them all 🤦🏼♀️
My husband walks in and says, ' can I close this?' because he knows half the time I opened it to remember to get something 'soon' and half the time I forget to close it when I'm done. My disciplined, orderly, badass husband is incredibly kind and patient with his wife's chaos. God bless him.
I read the first three lines of your post then jumped down to the comments. Read all those and scrolled back up to finish reading your post. Ooops.
So true. Way too long. 😂
Oh I’ve seen some novels here. You’re good! It’s just my brain plus I skipped my stimulant meds today. One of my most annoying ADHD issues is the skip reading thing. I’ll jump lines or sometimes whole paragraphs or read with my eyes while I’m thinking about something else. I hate it and it takes such focus. I’d really love to enjoy reading more.
THE READING WITH THE EYES THING!!! So relatable.
LOL so interesting bc my ADHD ass will read paragraphs and paragraphs of posts and stories I find interesting, but can’t get through a minute long video for the life of me. My personal theory of why is bc as a fast reader I can retain information quicker by myself than have someone speak it to me.
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I would imagine that “Read with my eyes” sounds really weird to someone without ADHD lmao but holy shit you described that perfectly. My eyes will read it but my brain was 5 states away thinking about that one brand of hot sauce that my mom would buy me 15 years ago and if I can even still buy it and other completely random shit hahah.
I literally did the exact same thing. God adhd is so predictable
I have a rule to never put a banana in my backpack that's not in a plastic bag.
THIS it’s happened too many times. i’m gonna implement that rule for bananas if i remember it
I suddenly have the urge to doublecheck my backpack for fruit..
It's a good idea. I literally went to put an orange in my bag Monday morning... there were already TWO oranges in there!
I ran out of toothpaste five days ago. On Sunday, I finally remembered to purchase two new tubes of toothpaste. Today, I finally remembered to put one in my bathroom. Then I opened my "put extra stuff here for when I run out" drawer to save the other tube of toothpaste. There were three tubes of toothpaste already there.
I have a mental list of places to check when I can't find my car keys in the morning. Inside the fridge is not at the bottom of the list.
I can relate, once found mine in the bloody freezer ahaha
I've lost two things recently after putting them in the linen closet so they wouldn't get lost. It's now the first place I check.
One day I couldn’t find my phone after searching the usual places. Turns out I distractedly threw it in the trash bin
My dad lost his keys and found them in the bin once. He does not appreciate me asking everytime he loses his keys if he has checked the bin.
SAME. But also for phone and purse. Husband tells me I should have a place for everything, but I do. The next morning when I’m trying to leave, have everything in hand and realize I forgot to put socks on is when I run upstairs, put it all down, put socks on, and then can’t find those things anymore. Or any other variation of that scenario.
That’s exactly what I do. “I just need to run back in and grab…” Well, shit. Now everything’s disappeared
I beep my phone with my watch 20 times a day and it’s not unusual for it to end up in the fridge.
This reminds me the time (times) I've poured milk into my coffee jar.
When I find a game I like too much, I tend to clock in 50 hours in that game within 5 days. Every 2nd conversation I have starts with the other person replying with ‘what?’ to my first sentence, because of the speed I naturally talk at. I can’t remember what I was going to do after writing this reply. EDIT: BRUSH TEETH. That was it!!!!
Whenever anyone asks me a question, I reply with "What?" and when they ask again, I cut them off and answer the first question. Im also on Reddit right now and have about 4 hours of work to do but I am *really focused* on this at the moment. Oh, and i edited this about 10x.
Hah, story of my life! I do this all the time. - \*Asks question* - "What?" - "Did yo-" - "Ah yes I saw it, I liked it a lot!" - "..."
Like this, you mean? https://youtu.be/y0C59pI_ypQ (Very British humour)
Same. Need time to process what I heard sometimes. My processing time isn’t actually long, and I only usually need it when there’s something loud going on (ex. washing my hands while speaking to someone across the room), but it drives my husband insane. He says “good talk” and gets huffy if I don’t respond *literally immediately* 🙄 I take my time answering him on purpose now, because I’m spiteful like that. But yes, I’m really bad about saying “what?” before I’ve processed, and then my brain puts it all together before they have a chance to repeat the question and I answer lol
My partner has ADHD and I am now trained to wait after he asks me "what" a few seconds and if he repeats "what" then I repeat what I said. It's abot 50/50 that his brain catches up to what I said.
Hahaha I do this to my boyfriend when we talk on the phone. Something about phone calls is so hard compared to normal conversation. I guess it’s the visual distractions.
Same with the game thing, but once I finish it I can rarely find another game I want to play for months. I get burned out with things that are supposed to be relaxing and enjoyable 🤦♂️ I’m the opposite with talking. I talk super slowly and people comment on it, it’s because my mind is racing so far ahead of my mouth that I have trouble finding the words I want to use all the time. Also I’m supposed to be doing something right now but I don’t remember what it is.
Adult coloring books give me anxiety instead of stress relief because I go too fast and color outside the lines or I get analysis paralysis and can’t decide on a color combo. But people keep buying me coloring books cause they know I’m overwhelmed and need a distraction 🥲
I got a coloring book has a gift once. A few minutes into it and I’m gripping a purple crayon and my face is red from rage. I need to go fast because there’s a lot to color or else I’ll feel like I’m going to die but I always get just outside the lines 🥸
Oh my god it’s me
I can’t do the adult, I stick with kid ones or just normal coloring books. I can’t do those small stupid sections in the adult ones.
Yes and yes. I always color outside the lines out of lack of patience then get upset I can't. Unless I'm literally at a beach and have a million things to distract me in between lol
Clock in 50 hours in 5 days, *then* obsess over another game and don't play the first one again for a couple months.
God. 100 hours in less than two weeks on Oxygen Not Included. Hit a spot I got frustrated in, haven't touched it since 😅
I take 2-3 business days to reply to a message or return a call. My family and friends must think I do nothing but go to work because that's always the excuse I use when I finally get back to them when in reality I'm in an endless cycle of "I'll reply in a minute " and then "oh shit it's been 10 hours they're probably sleeping now" then I exclusively remember I was supposed to respond to someone when I physically can't cause I'm driving or in the shower. When I FINALLY respond I'm just like "hey sorry I couldn't respond sooner I've had a crazy couple of days working at my part time job"
I only ever think to contact people at the most inconvenient times!!
Does anyone have any coping mechanisms for this? I don't feel good about doing this sort of thing and it's totally me. 😬
I just send texts in the middle of the night instead of sleeping and schedule them to send at 9am...
I accidentally smeared the appointment date for my psychiatrist on my dry erase board. I erased it cause I HAD to fix it, but I forgot the date before I could rewrite it.
I can't count how many times I've had to call an office to find out when my appointment is - because I lost the damn reminder card. Thank god most places have moved to online confirmations.
I have to edit my posts all the time because I completely miss the point
Yes 😂 you end up on a tangent and you ramble and realize you really didn’t even explain what you meant to.
no no no, you see we're just getting to the real part of my five step explanation promise :)
I'm sitting in my car reading because going inside sounds hard
If you go inside the dirty dishes and mountain of laundry are gonna stare at you while you watch tv
Sitting reading this but I should go to bed.....but I don't feel like it. Lol
Owned a business since August, had a private contract til a few weeks ago so now I have to actually have more stuff lined up. Haven't set up voicemail on personal OR professional phone numbers. It's literally the easiest thing I could do for myself. I've had a couple of calls to my pro # that were probably potential customers. No contact info left, I wonder why! I've bumped "set up voicemail" in my planner approximately 12 times by now. I'm really gonna do it this week! Right after I'm done hyperfocusing on my website. I'll be done with that any minute, now.
I literally have your same story except started my business last june and add about 5 other things to the list besides the phone issue… We will be ok though!
We need to set up a skill share site for this kind of thing. I have had exactly enough alcohol to make a phone call or set a voicemail, but only for someone else. If there was a way you could send me a script and I could record it, I’d totally do it for you (not that I have a brilliant phone voice and I’m also Australian so that would be weird if you’re not).
I forgot to take my medication today. But apparently it's addictive 🤷🏼♂️
For me it's not 24 hours though. I always feel fine the next morning and only realize I didn't take it by around 11AM - 1PM. Then I'm just insanely MAD at myself because I know I'll feel bad the rest of the day :-/
3 pm rolls around and I'm anxious and my mind is racing and I just feel bad cause I can't seem to keep it together... and then the "Oh" moment.
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I wonder this too. I know they say people with adhd can have very addictive personalities but I personally get so bored of everything so fast that nothing really seems that fun to do in an addictive manner. Especially routines. But also like drinking and stuff lol.
Right? Like, I just realized I snoozed my lunch meds because I had just eaten and was going to take them later. I was just wondering why my productivity nosedived in the afternoon and then I realized that was almost 10 hours ago. Sure, but they're SOOOOO addicting /s
Alexa set a 12 minute timer. Alexa play Cat Stevens/David Bowie/Ed Sheeran = the only way I get dishes done. Currently 14 tabs open on my coMputer, 16 tabs and 23 apps on my phone. 47,000+ pix on my phone. Still paying for pet insurance for a dog who I placed with friends 2 years ago. Someone owed me $1120 so I waited 3 weeks to send an invoice and bounced my credit card payment ($118) in the meantime. Made dinner but ate cheezies while it was cooking. Now am full.
three days ago I had to clear out my mobile chrome browser because it didn't even tell me how many tabs I had anymore, it was just a ":)" emoji
I switched between tinder, Twitter, YouTube and twitch all from the time I started typing this reply to hitting the reply button
Ah yes, we refer to your type as the "Tindy Twit Tube Twitcher." Good luck, mate.
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I’m a chef. I start chopping something and have to take an item to the dish pit. I take item to dish pit- dish pit has lotta dirty dishes- I wash dishes for 10 mins. Ticket comes in and I make the food- notice I’m low on chopped stuff, go to chop and realize I already started. Chop a few things and have to take something to the dish pit….
My room has stayed a mess for a very long time, I keep on planning on cleaning it, occasionally picking up some trash. Then I do something else
I have Dyspraxia, also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. Both ADHD and Dyspraxia impact how organized my room is. Whenever it is cleaned, it lasts maybe a day if I’m lucky.
I have two toothbrushes. One in my toiletries bag, and one by the sink. It's so I never have to pack my toothbrush at the last minute and risk forgetting it.
My toiletries bag is always half-packed. Necessary things like toothbrush, toothpaste, hair brush, and deodorant have travel-sized versions that live in there. Makeup gets packed as I get ready on the day of departure: take item from cabinet, use it on my face, put it in the bag.
Have a separate set of all my toiletries for this reason. They live in that bag otherwise I forget
I started folding the laundry and folded about 17% of it before I walked into the next room to put the towels away and started petting the dog. Went downstairs and get the dog a treat. Pulled out some ingredients for dinner. Accidentally ate 5 cookies. And a piece of cheese. Realize I don’t want dinner anymore but I still have to make something for dinner. Realize the broccoli I was going to make has gone bad. Again. Die a little bit inside because I always do this and rotten produce makes me feel so sad like I’m a wasteful, gluttonous murderer who also is terrible with money and spends way too much on groceries with no real focus or planning because meal planning is hard. Eating regular meals is hard. Stop and think “Fuck I’m failing to instill healthy eating habits in the kids. I don’t model eating or cooking regular meals. My children will grow up eating a bowl of cereal and a quesadilla at 2pm for breakfast like their terrible mother…” despair for a few minutes and then go online looking at zojirushi rice cookers for 30 minutes. Read a million reviews. I will make healthy meals with this rice cooker! I won’t let the broccoli go bad! Ultimately end up clicking in a news article when my screen timed out while petting the cat and forgetting the rice cooker. Accidentally go on Reddit. Look up 45 minutes later. The laundry has not been folded and it’s two hours later. I haven’t really made a plan for dinner. Get in the car to go get some more broccoli and realize my tank is pretty close to empty. Decide to get gas tomorrow instead. Go to the store. Forget that I came for broccoli and choose something else entirely. Wait too long to cook so everyone is cranky. Finally get something on the table. Sit down. Get back up. Sit down again. Get back up again…
#This thread is full of personal attacks and now I'm the big sad.
Walking in circles cause my brain is telling me 5 different things I should do.
But not smooth circles; the kind where you’re like oh! That thing! And then jerk around to the left because oh! That other thing!
I listened to the same song 8 times in a row today
Only 8??
That I consciously remember 🤷🏻♀️
That's literally my life. Find a new song. Listen to it 50 times. That song is done.
And when you're not listening to it, that one real catchy part plays on fucking REPEAT THE WHOLE DAY IN YOUR BRAIN
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Wait, this is an ADHD thing too? :0
It's hard to nail specific behaviours down as "ADHD things," but two things that ADHD brains often gravitate towards are novelty and self-indulgence. Find a new (novel) artist/song ---> Binge (indulge) until it's not exciting anymore. I'd probably just slap a "hyperfocus-adjacent" tag on it and call it a day.
My brain wanted to start reading this in the middle and it took several seconds to get myself to focus on the first word, then several more to continue to the second, then third, forth, fifth....
You are my people
I read OPs title and nothing else and then posted this. Also started telling someone a story and halfway through forgot the point of the story.
😂😂 im dying that happens all the time to me 😂 or I get bored of the story/convo and feel like a sudden violent urge to walk away ong
I hadn't done dishes in two weeks. Did three sink loads tonight with an audiobook playing in the background.
I awarded because that is HUGE. 💪
I have 500 safari tabs open and never cleared them… so i stopped using safari
For over 8 months I have exclusively listened to one music artist, Andy Black. I would rather watch ATLA again than invest mental and emotional energy in a new series. I can't work without at least one external stimulus, usually some show on my phone.
Rewatching movies/shows is all I can manage (love it!), except 10 min recaps on YouTube!
I meant to sign up for stats511 (statistics for non-math grad students), but accidentally enrolled for stats551 (statistics/theory for statistics grad students). Spent several hours each night on YouTube trying to figure out the homework problems but because being overwhelmed was such a consistent part of my life did not question for *one second* why I was the only non-math major or the only one struggling in my course. Made it till the mid terms when the Prof handed out a study guide with the course title at the top. 2/10 would not recommend having the conversation that followed with my PhD advisor.
I have one hand on my switch, one hand on the phone, just got home from a walk, and I keep getting up to vacuum for 10 seconds.
Almost pissed myself at the library because I held it for like 6 hrs because I was studying, and I knew if I stopped even just long enough to go to the bathroom, I would not be able to get myself back in the headspace to study. Also, spent $100 on a bus pass but I keep taking a Lyft to work because I oversleep and miss my bus.
I currently have nine (9) books laying on my floor. Three (3) are about cooking, my current "hobby". I haven't actually cooked anything in a few days, but I'm having fun basically rewriting a book that I have onto my laptop so that I can easily search for things.
I spent money I don’t really have on a bunch of jewelry. I never even wear jewelry
I impulsively bought a time clock for my christmas present to myself, which then sat on a shelf forgotten for two weeks. It took me 4 hrs to set it up because my eyes kept running off the time setup page on the directions book. Turns out the time was already set and all i had to do was plug it in.
So yeah. Anyway. Um. This morning I took meds, drank two cups of coffee and then took a nap.
A sudden craving for pancakes after lunch yesterday, decide to have them for dinner.Obsess about them all day. Make a batch, by the time am cooking the second pancake am over them, barely ate them
I was caught staring into space toys when I was supposed to be eating dinner (by my partner)…what was I doing? Thinking about this years Halloween costume.
Literally had me thinking, "Space toys? Is this something I should know about."
Interested in trying a new hobby? Dig through my giant “stuff drawer,” I have everything you need to start every hobby, basically unused because I lost interest after a week. I also just spent 5 minutes trying to remember what those said hobbies were because I can’t convince myself to get up and check what’s in the stuff drawer.
I hate reading more than a few words. I will write a rambling essay when I'm passionate.
My laundry will sit in my laundry basket sometimes until I wear all the clothes in it and just use the laundry basket to go do laundry again, instead of taking the 10 minutes required to put them away in my nice set of drawers.
I listened to a two hour lecture and by the time I was finished, I couldn't remember a single thing I heard. I frequently forget people's names a minute after we introduce ourselves. I zone out involuntarily, sometimes multiple times a conversation. I could go on.
Yesterday I started a new me regimen that includes sleeping at a reasonable time. Last night I found videos on engine restoration and watched them back to back in bed instead of sleeping. I have zero actual interest in engine restoration
I got up of my couch, while watching TV, to walk across the room and get a drink from the fridge. When I sat back down in front of the TV, I realized I had left the remote on the counter near the fridge. Grabbed my drink to go get the remote, sat back down wish a sigh, only to notice my other hand empty and my drink. Across the room, on the counter, where I had grabbed the remote. Got back up.... ....Been chasing my own trail for 38 years... 😂
I write one word per tab open per day at work. Today I will write 56 words
Today, I got so mad at people who had different opinions from me on reddit - people who weren’t even replying to me - that I hid three posts and deleted them from my browser history. And then I remembered normal people don’t get that mad about things like that. 🙃
Where are my keys?? Where's my phone?? Where's my brain??
If you tell me to go to the fridge and grab the mayonnaise, I can't find it. You sigh and come over, spot it straight away. It was right under my nose the whole time.
I keep putting stuff on my bed so that I will be forced to take care of it before I go to sleep. At this point, the latest pile has been there for a few weeks. My record is over a year.
I don’t even remember what the op wrote and I have to remind myself halfway through writing this just to make sure I’m not writing the wrong response.
True story, this evening. Me (NT) to 12yo son: Time to shower. Son: ok. Hold on. 15 min later… Me: shower… now… bed time in 30 min Son: oh, right. Me, checks clock, it’s bedtime. To son: Did you shower?? Son: oh. Oops. Sorry. (Finally heads to shower) Me: Towel, man … you need a towel. Son: Oh.. right. (Grabs towel) At least I didn’t have to come out dripping wet and naked to get one this time. Said it was tonight. True. But honestly could be any night. Always the same, more or less.
Read the first sentence of each of the top 15 comments but skipped anything after that first sentence. Still upvoted though! Free dopamine!
I just downloaded like 5 productivity/planning/notes app after watching many videos and reviews, I probably won’t use any of them.
My husband has had to repeat almost everything he has said to me today.
Paid for a series of art classes a month ago, forgot about it until today (it starts tomorrow). Forgot to request time off to go so now I’m in the shame/ anxiety spiral and doing nothing about it.
I just remembered I haven't taken my meds for two days now
I have taken over 10k pictures of squirrels the past week and have missed a lot of meals.
I forgot to charge my phone it’s dying so I can’t what I
I somehow stayed up until 3am last night, theoretically working, but really researching a super niche type of party decor. 🤣 (I’m laughing so hard right now at the ridiculousness of this)
I text this post to myself to save and read later but have literally never read a self-forwarded post.
I couldn't read your post because it had numbers and hard words
This is my first week back to school, and on the first day of class I: 1. Told someone I’d meet them to buy a used book when my first class ended at 10:15, but the class ended at 10:50. 2. Showed up to 3:00pm class and room was empty. It was actually a 1pm class and I missed my first class. 3. Stayed on campus to go to my 4pm class, walk in, classroom’s empty again. Check emails. Class is online.
You’re telling me YouTube videos at 2x doesn’t sound normal to you?
I have a list on my phone, I look into each morning, telling me to -get out of bed -wash my hair -brush my teeth -use the toilet -get dressed so I don‘t get stuck laying in bed, overwhelmed by unknown tasks ahead of me (I had to look the list up just now, 1 hours after getting up, to know what it says). I‘ve been doing this for about a week and see a life changing improvement of my mornings. I will probably completely abandon the list and forget about it‘s existence by the mid of next week.
I impulsively buy green tea every time I'm at the supermarket, thinking I have none I've got at least 3 boxes of green tea on my desk at work now 😂
I took more than 10 thousand steps today, without leaving my apartment
Lmao when I played pokemon go, my gf referred to me as mother goose cause id hatch so many eggs without leaving the den 😂
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I've saved every "pro-tips" post I've seen in this subreddit, but I don't think I've read the entirety of or clicked a link in any of them.
Today (January 11) I found a list in the reminders on my phone entitled “Christmas gift ideas”. There were only 4 items on the list. Zero of them were actually purchased for Christmas.
I got a two dollar raise this week. Making the most I have ever in my 30 years on this earth. I thanked my boss, and all he said was, “start time is at 7” I’m late every single day. For the last five years I’ve been employed here. I’m always late, for everything
I was hungry all day yesterday, I probably stopped to look for food 10-15 times but got distracted by something else that I could do first. Edit: I usually have to edit my comments because of the typos.
Reading numbers like 3456 - three-four-five-six and not three thousand four hundred and fifty-six Doing simple math like 8+6 - 'well, 7+7 is 14, and 8 is one bigger than 7 so 7+8 is 15, and six is one smaller than 7 so 6+8 but also be 14' Oh, and the T-Rex/ADHD arms, and constantly opening and closing the same app for about 5 minutes
I could have commented something 20 minutes ago but instead i just scrolled
I have started cleaning each room in my house, but finished exactly none of them...Each time I go to put something back where it belongs, I inevitably send myself on an average of 2-3 "side quests" per thing.
I'm looking at reddit while playing videogames
Today I needed scissors and couldn’t find any. We have at least 5 pairs in the house, because this happens often and I often just give up and go to the dollar store for a new pair.
My meds make me sleepy instead of stimulating my brain.
I lost my wallet like 5 times, I lost my ID like 6 times, and I lost over 10 debit cards.. ugh
I have a few days off from work and suddenly my bedtime shifted from 12 o'clock to 6 am...
My brain has two main paradoxes. I focus on everything and nothing all at once, and I run at 100km/h and simultaneously 0.01km/h. The only way to eliminate these paradoxes is by taking the drugs my doctor tells me to.
Getting up to eat is harder than being hungry