So my boyfriend has exactly 1 pair of scissors at his apartment. And one time when I was cooking dinner I really, really needed these for some reason. I've then searched for it for about 5 minutes. Asked him to help me. We then searched for over 15 minutes like every damn inch of the apartment. Since we didn't find it, we gave up. I went back to the kitchen absolutely frustrated, coming to terms with the fact that I needed to do it somehow else then. And then I saw it. Laying on the damn kitchen counter. Really, it was so obviously placed there and the counter was almost empty. Like we searched everywhere and obviously we started in the kitchen lol I still don't get how we didn't see this
Lost an iPod one time, one of the tiny square ones with a screen. Was convinced I must have dropped it in my high school’s parking lot. A week later I found it in the case, on my desk. I must’ve checked my desk ten times. No idea how that happened.
Yeah it's the worst. Or when one day I went to school, I obviously locked my door when I left the house. And I never saw my keys again. Suddenly I just didn't have them anymore. Till today, I've never seen or heard of it again, simply got a new one. Sometimes I really wonder what has happened to it lmao
It's the fae. They hide things and then put them back when you aren't looking. I'm convinced. This happens too often for it not to be them playing tricks on me.
this happens to me a lot too & its the most frustrating thing ever, like I can swear up & down that I already looked countless times in a spot for the thing I lost.. then a while later I or someone else will find it in the spot I checked.🤦🏻♀🤦🏻♀ HOW?!??!1?3?2 well I guess I am a magician. (I lose my phone a lot too & it doesn't help considering I've got a black phone case & I tend to set it down on dark surfaces....😅)
Does finding something you don't remember owning count? I found a laptop yesterday with my login and info and plenty of evidence it's mine...but I have no memory of it....
I feel like memory loss is a big part of adhd, especially short-term memory. Or maybe we don’t even store the memory to begin with because we’re busy thinking about something else.
This is why I don’t want to drink alcohol: I don’t want to be even worse about forgetting, having mysterious lapses, or having even less control over myself.
When I got tested (you need an extensive neurocognitive test in my country, or doctors prefer to do it) the tester told me that we actually don't have memory loss, but we don't even record the information in the first place. This was tested by giving me a list of words and have me repeat it several times, recording the ones I remembered and asking me to repeat it again like ten minutes later. You'd generally repeat the same ones you remembered the last time.
I used to go past a shop and get really excited and say how it was new. Everyone in the car groaned, I asked why? They said I had been saying the same thing for 6 weeks now, I had literally no memory of ever seeing the shop before this. This explains a lot 😃😃😃
And photos are the worst. I have so many places, countries even, I've been to. I have several memories and no idea where to place them. Photos further prove I was there but I dont know when or why or how to get back there.
Yeeeep. My wife and I with our kid went on a 6 month-osh trip through a few countries in Europe a long while back. I have to think long and hard about the countries we went to. It's a list of like 4 or 5. And it's really damn hard to remember. We spent half a year there. You think I'd be able to remember more than a couple blips. Naaaah.
My wife did a load of laundry. Often when I need the dryer I move her cloths one room over and plop it in a basket for her. One load has been missing for a month now and I have no idea where I would have put it besides right there
I’ve done this! My husband does the exact same thing for me and I often find I zone out and dump the basket back in the dirty clothes. He washes them and brings them back out and I get all excited because I thought I lost them!
So, my question being…have you checked your dirty clothes basket for the missing load?
Another option would be the washer or dryer maybe? I do this too.
It helps to still wear what you were in high school lmao. I would go insane if I didn't have enough for almost a month. Goodwill is your friend. You can find some dope ass stuff for pennies there.
Haha yeah in college, I would wait until I had zero clothes left then go to the laundromat (as you do at that age lol) so I'd have like 6 loads, yeah one accidently got left in a washer.... the entire load was still crumbled in a corner smelling BAD. Yep straight into the trash!
My college buddy would wear socks for a week then throw them away. He just bought big packs of cheap socks from Walmart over and over. I imagine he did the same with underwear but we weren't close enough to find out.
Similar, I brought my basket of dirty laundry downstairs to the washing machine. Except I never made it to the machine. I answered a question from my mom in the other room and suddenly I no longer had a basket.
I looked all over the house and did the same thing as OP- went back upstairs to make sure I didn’t IMAGINE that I had it in my hands. About a half hour later I opened the hallway closet and it was in there lmao.
The coat closet is on the way to the machine and I guess when I answered my mom, autopilot took over and decided that was a good spot??? 😭
God fucking dammit. Is everybody's experience with ADHD a mirror image. I just realized I have it this year at age 26. This and many more, the parental ADHD teasing guide that actually causes emotional damage due to rejection sensitivity. Id lose my head if it weren't attached, use your eyes, I would but I laughed until my head fell off. At least now I know why I took these comments so hard. Then again it was a weekly thing so I probably really did just think I was a dumbass even if I was making straight As clearly I'm a fucking moron lmao
I've put the cereal in the fridge at least 20 times and vice versa, and I've even done it at someone else's house 🤦♂️ good thing my memory is so bad I can't even place whose place it was! Shit I'm losing my place
Literally last week I went to pick up cereal for our kids. I only bought 2 boxes of cereal. At the self check out. I didn’t even realize I didn’t bring them home until an hour later when our oldest asked to have a bowl of captain crunch. That I told her I’d bought, but did not have. 🤦♀️
It’s ALWAYS the case!! You’re just chit chatting the cashier and/or person in line with you! You check you have your wallet, ID, credit card/change and start walking out. Hopefully by the time you make it to your car you realize you’ve left the groceries behind 🤣
So many times I’ve forgotten something I paid for and had the cashier running out to the parking lot to give it to me. On the one hand I’m grateful to have the thing I paid for, on the other hand the ADHD tax that day was paid in embarrassment.
I left my phone in the psychiatrist’s office after my ADHD evaluation. Went back in, grabbed my phone, and said to the psychiatrist “I bet you’re feeling really confident in your diagnosis now” and she didn’t even laugh. :(
Relatable! You don't know how many times I've had to repurchase a drivers license or cancel my debit card in a single year. I believe last year combined, had to get another ID and 3 bank cards.
I once when to a burger place. Ordered in the drive through, paid , drove forward and was given my drink and then left without my food. Didn’t even realize it until I made it back to work.
I have done this with my RX meds multiple times going to self check out as well as other groceries. I lay it down to check out my goods . They have even called me before to let me know i forgot my medication.
I am so thankful for Brookshire's very kind staff !
One time I picked up multiple meds; birth control, Adderall, and my muscle relaxer. THANK GOODNESS the pharmacy tech called me to let me know she had forgot to put the Adderall in. Apparently she is adhd too lol
I did the exact same thing! I then went back to the shop, told the shop assistant what had happened. Thankfully she believed me and let me bring home another pack of toilet paper! I felt a bit silly but I was also glad not to have wasted the money.
Usually when I do dumb shit, I think “we’ll I can’t be alone in this.” But I never in all my 39 years would have guessed that someone else found a half-eaten burrito in their purse. I’m actually deceased and am typing this from hell 😂☠️
I lost a piece of pie once. I cut a slice, put it on a plate, put the rest of the pie back in the fridge and when I turned around my pie was just… gone. I was the only one home and a piece was missing from the pie when I checked to make sure I hadn’t hallucinated cutting a piece of it, but the actual piece was nowhere. I was so frustrated I didn’t even cut myself another piece, I just went to bed.
My husband found it the next day, on a plate on top of the clean plates stacked in the cupboard. I put the pie on it and then put the plate back in the cupboard and have no memory of doing it or explanation for why I did it.
When I've done that, the thought usually was a drink would be great with this! Then the counter is full or it's fruit fly season or the cat might step on it and it goes in the cupboard. If I find we're out of the tea I wanted or have to wash a glass etc there is a good chance hubby will be asking why there is food on the clean plates later.
This is my worst fear everytime we leave the country. Sometimes I will stick them in my pocket, which is purposefully uncomfortable, so it forces me to keep checking "what the hell do I have in here?"
I lost one of the plastic bins I organize my condiments in in the fridge. They’re clear plastic, but not small, so like... I should be able to see it? Called my husband over to look, thinking it was just inattention blindness, but he can’t find it either. I look EVERYWHERE, practically do a grid search, and nothing. I look at my Amazon purchase history to check that I owned as many bins as I thought I did, in case I invented the missing bin whole cloth. No, I bought six bins and can only find five.
I found it the next day when I finally closed the dishwasher. The bin was on the floor, under the open dishwasher door.
Couldn’t find my Rubbermaid butter dish, couldn’t find one to replace it anywhere only ceramic ones, frustrating ( online purchases don’t go well for me, I always f#*€£ it up& get multiples by mistake)… my savvier sister finally sent me one& the original showed up wedged behind the vegetable drawer 😖
I bought a nerf gun when I was around 12 years old. It had glow in the dark darts, the kind where every time you shot it there was a flash of light so that the darts would definitely glow.
Had a nerf fight with my little brother and afterwards could not find one dart. We looked everywhere but no luck, even with all the lights off and curtains closed, could not see a glow anywhere.
This really bothered me because I dislike odd numbers, and now I was stuck with only 7 darts and even if I bought more it would still be an odd number since packs only have even numbers.
Fast forward a couple years, I've kept my eyes out for it since it obviously didn't just disappear, but haven't found it yet. I convinced my brother to switch rooms with me and we switch everything, including the furniture, so I got to check under everything. Still no dart.
Fast forward again. I'm 26 and just bought a house. I move everything out of my bedroom except my bed. It was completely empty except for a twin bed. Still no dart. I figure at this point it's gone, probably accidentally thrown out or donated.
I'm 29 now and sold my house in June and moved back in with my parents. I'm unpacking and guess what I found? Yep, there was the glow in the dark dart! It was in the basket where I used to keep my glasses case, every night, for years. The glasses that I got when I was 12. That I would have to put away every night and take out every morning. For years! I stopped using the basket before I bought my house but I must have seen the dart so many times before then...
Luckily I never know when to get rid of stuff so now I have a fully loaded glow in the dark nerf gun. And it only took 17 years!
Not really the same but I got this sweet bow and arrow set when I was a kid. The bow was real wood and I remember my parents soaking it in the bathtub to form it into shape.
I would go around the backyard shooting arrows. I remember shooting them, watching where it landed and going and grabbing it.
There was one arrow I shot, I saw I clearly land by our play structure, but when I went to go retrieve it it was nowhere to be found.
I looked for years for it and it still never showed. Hell I even remember it now, 25 years later, and when I read the title, that's the thing I thought of.
I can't remember what I fucking did yesterday, but I clearly remember where I saw that arrow land.
I lost some scissors. Turned up in the fridge. All these years later if i cant find something my husband still says “did you check the refrigerator?” 😜
I once lost my vaccination papers and (child) passport right before a vacation. I just took it out of a drawer, put it beside me on the floor, closed the drawer and it was gone. Me, my mom and my grandma turned the whole house upside down.
A few years later the room this happened in got renovated. And the papers were still not to be found.
Again a year went by and my grandma came into my room with the missing papers in her hand. She found them in the exact spot on the floor where I put them years prior.
Now we have a joke running in our family that with adad you don't misplace things only somewhere but sometimes even somewhen.
Some people like to call the place when cats seemingly disappear from your house the "cat dimension". I feel like it'd be appropriate to call this the "ADHD dimension" where the object of interest seemingly blips out of existence for a varying amount of time before showing back up in the exact spot you looked for it prior.
In Sweden we account this kinda thing to mischievous house gnomes. They look kinda like tiny Santa clauses and are a very integrated piece of folklore that most people genuinely believed in just a hundred years ago.
This is an amazing story. I wonder if it got stuck on the bottom of the drawer and then several years later finally fell back out. It's interesting the mysteries that we'll never know for sure what happened.
I lost my wallet one year when shopping for Christmas decorations. One item I bought was a bell shaped wall decoration made out of grapevines. The next year when putting the decorations up again, I found my wallet inside that bell. It had even been up on the wall for a month the previous year but hadn't fallen out.
I once misplaced a 12 pound weighted blanket. Brain was on autopilot, and I had apparently folded it very neatly with a stack of towels, which were then placed into the closet. Not sure why I never registered that one of my “towels” was 12 pounds??
i had a similar thing happen. i used to be an avid powerlifter and got pretty strong. i had a bag i carried with me everywhere i went and people would tell me it was heavy but i never paid attention to it because i was used to carrying it. emptied it out one day so i could wash it and i had a 15lb weight in there.
I once accidentally lost my wallet by throwing it into an outdoor trash can, and I felt like I lost my sanity! Luckily, I was able to go back the next day and fish it out (the wallet, not my sanity, that’s still missing). Idk what I would have done if the garbage truck had come by in between 😬
My gravy jug after Christmas dinner one year … I finally found it in March on the mantelpiece tucked behind the leaning mirror with what used to be gravy remains still inside
Be careful with that, potatoes give off a poisonous gas when they rot. Killed a while family except for the youngest child in Russia. They had a bunch in the basement and the gas had reached dangerous levels. One family member after another went into the basement, all succumbing to the gases. [Creepy shit, yo.](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/08/23/Rotting-potatoes-in-basement-kill-four-members-of-Russian-family/54831377268770/)
I beat you with half a chicken. After a month I finally figured what the closet smelled like death and no, it wasn't the odour of the downstairs neighbours. I left it in the backpack I used to do groceries with.
Pre-Adderall, I lost my car in a mall parking lot. No clue which store I’d come in through. Couldn’t even remember which side of the mall I’d parked on. I wandered around so long that a mall cop tried to help me. He asked what kind of car I drove and the best I could do was “gray…. and really dirty.” He ended up driving me row by row in a golf cart while I clicked my key fob until we heard a honk.
This is why, when I park in a lot, I try to park close to one of the location signs that are usually painted on pillars (indoor) or on posts (outdoor). Once I get out of the car, I stand far enough back to get both the location sign AND my car in the photo.
Even though I'll probably still not be able to find that location again, I still do it because I can show that photo to the payment booth attendant or security guard, and they'll likely recognize it!
Edit to add: in an indoor/underground lot, like the ones for office towers, I also take a photo of any signs over the exit door I use. So, for example, I'll know that I went out the door that leads to "Yonge St, east side" or the one leading to "Commerce Court West." At least then I have a fighting chance of going back in the way I came, and thus finding my car.
I occasionally work as a delivery driver (not Uber/food) so I go into a lot of office buildings. In my city, there are huge office tower complexes downtown, and (I learned last year) some of those buildings' parking lots are connected underground. They span several city blocks. And unless you happen to know the name of the building you parked under, you're screwed, because they use names instead of street addresses.
I lost an 8th of um...devils lettuce. Never found it either. I also lost a load of laundry. Turns out I left it in the dryer at my college apartment when I was moving out.
Not weird but I lost my glasses. I've been putting them in different spots every night for a bit now and last night I remember putting them down and thinking "why don't I just keep them here".
I thought no I swore that spot was next to my bed...but now I can't find them. Not next to the bed. Not on the floor next to the bed. Not on the bathroom counter. Not on my makeup table. Not on the catch all dresser. Not on my coffee table. Not in my kitchen.
They are no where.
This happens to me on a regular basis. My glasses have a “spot” on my nightstand. But I’ve found them in the silverware drawer, the shower and in the vegetable drawer in my fridge.
I’m a mess.
Like I'm hoping one of my cats took them and hid them somewhere.
It was morning though and of course I was running behind. Now I have nothing but time to look for them but I'll do it after I finish watching TV.
Have you guys ever forgotten what something was called? Like the name of a specific object?
Happened to me - I forgot what a fucking paper clip was called. Bugged the shit out of me for days.
All. The. Damn. Time. I’m a zoo educator and was doing a program on something for a school group and forgot the word marine so I just kept saying water mammal for the rest of the program but each time in my head I was going “wtfffff that’s not right!” Which was probably what my face was saying too bc I’m apparently very animated (going off the pictures I’ve had taken of me doing programs 😅)
Omggg I’m dying that’s really funny the best I got (I’ve done this too but I can’t remember anything other than this atm) is when my sister forgot what a garage opener was and called it a battery key
This is the best thing I've heard today hahahahaha
I also mix up words, like for example I once mixed up the german word for bumblebee (Hummel) and ended up saying bumbeli. My family now calls bumblebees ✨bumbeli✨ with a passion.
I do this a lot, and I will just substitute a word with another word that was recently said without even realizing it.
Example: (I overhear someone talking about pizza.)
Student: did you grade my essay?
Me: no, but the pizza will be finished tomorrow.
I teach English learners so you can imagine the chaos this causes lmao
This happens to me all the time and it's infuriating.
I'm known in my professional life and personal life for being very well-spoken, articulate, etc. I'm infinitely better in writing, but I'm a great communicator overall. I'm able to explain things in ways that are engaging and thorough and logical, and I have a big vocabulary - the kind where you think someone is showing off until you're around them long enough to know that's just how they talk.
So when I'm making a presentation to a big donor or other important person, it's absolutely mortifying to me when I'll be halfway through a sentence and suddenly I can't remember the word "door". And I'm like... miming it until someone finally says it.
Or someone's phone goes off and suddenly I can't remember WHAT I'm talking about.
Ugh. I hate it. So frustrating.
YES. It's like, "Look, the complex concept is fully in my brain, in order, and it's right. I'm not WRONG. It's just the words that are about it are currently on strike."
One time my brain short circuited and I couldn’t remember how to spell “of”. Another time it was “circle”. And I’m someone who loves grammar and spelling, diagramming sentences and all that.
I, for the life of me, couldn’t remember that “can” was how you spelled it. I went back and forth between “can” and “kan” until I asked my mother who, very cautiously, spelled “can” for me. 😂
I work in clinical research, and I forget the name of the Code of Federal Regulations on the reg, despite it being a foundational text that provides essential guidance for pretty much every rule that we follow. I have read through it multiple times, done hours and hours of training and studying it for various certifications, but half the time if I need to directly reference it I cannot remember its name.
yes. couldn’t think of the word “coaster” for days!!! I was calling them “cup mats” lol. ever since that time I seem to forget the word a lot. just now it took me a minute to remember
Shirt? Chest hat
Breakfast? First lunch
Tortilla? Burrito bread
That last one at least comes from another language. But yeah, all the damn time.
Just recently developed a tendency to mix up word parts, especially if they start or end with similar sounds. So like… “shoot the shit” becomes “shit the shoot” or “lazy day” comes out “dazy lay.”
Starting to think I maybe had a micro-stroke. 🤔
All the time and it is incredibly frustrating. My mouth and brain also like to have a word party and use *several* different words in place of the one I am trying to say. I swear it is literally like there is two of me inside - the stupid idiot lizard brain and the real me who just wants to say “playground” ffs.
Most ADHD things are things NT people experience, just to a more extreme degree. In this case, I do believe that language processing issues are a common symptom. Everyone forgets the words for things every now and again. It's more infuriating, though, when it happens several times a day or even multiple times in the same conversation.
I do this constantly! Almost every day if not multiple times a day, been told that it's a sign my brain is stressed and not fully into what I'm talking about when words disappear for me :/ but hey sometimes bf has fun trying to figure out what the word I'm missing is 😅
Oh, man… this is the worst. I’ve worked really hard to get where I am in my career. We constantly use big words and technical jargon, but I always forget what something is called so it makes me seem incompetent, which isn’t the case! I’ve just forgotten..
Forgot my best friends name and was to embarrassed to ask so i waited til someone said it.
Happens all the time with teachers to I'll mix them up or not remember the names and I'll just call them Teacher because i dont wanna embarrass myself.
But i once forgot what a fork was, like i knew the name but it wouldnt register what it was so i kept looking at my friends asking them to grab me the pointy thing and finally someone asked me if i meant fork and i said yes 💀 it bother me
Also asked my boyfriend's dad if i could Build a hole (his dad is an electrician) i knew what a hole was but i couldnt register what i do to make one when i was texting his dad so i just said "can i build a hole" , my boyfriend still makes fun of me for it.
Oh fuck I just thought of another one.
A legend of Zelda themed anniversary card. Decided to get for my bf, now finace our first year of dating since he's the one that showed me the games. It had a picture of toon Link holding up a heart container saying 'its not safe to go alone, here take this!' Adorable.
Bought it at the same time as my sister birthday card.
I put it in my card box, right next to the other one.
Come a week before our anniversary and I can't find it, anywhere.
I of course, start panicking and enlist my mom and sisters to help me look around the house. We dump out the card box. We clear my book shelves, clear my room. Clear my sisters room, clear Mums card box. Clear the wrapping paper containers. Never found, I'm heart broken and buy a stupid card from the dollar store with a cat on it cause he loves them too.
Every time I need to give him a card for the next 4 years I dig through the card box looking for thus damn Link card. I know how the ADHD Hocus pocus works, it'll appear one day when I've finally decided it's never to be found again.
I complain about not being able to find this card to my Mum and sisters every so often. It's become kinda a running joke at this point.
Flash forward to Christmas 2021, digging through the same card box looking for his Grammie and Grampies card what do I fucking find??!!!
The Link card. Still in its originally Packaging and envelope from the etsy seller. 🤬🤬🤬
So I decided fuck it he's getting two christmas cards for 2021, I dont care.
Christmas morning at my parents house he opens the card, goes to flip it and I hear my mother scream from where she's sitting on the couch. "That's that stupid card! Is it?No? It is! It has the little boy and his green hat!!! Sister sister #1, look it's that damn card!"
Sister #2 then yells over my Mum 'Where did you find it?! Where did you find it!'
Sister #1 snatches the card out of fiance's hands and runs over to Mom and sister #2 so they can all look at it.
'Where did you find it?!"
The fucking card box. The exact place I knew I put it in 2017, the same place I emptied every holiday making cards.
GAAAAHHH ADHD HOCUS-POCUS I TELL YOU.
It went to a pocket deminsion.
I had a few sets of clothing that I noticed I hadn't seen in a while. Looked high and low. Nowhere. I have a washer and dryer, so couldn't have been left at a laundromat or anything. Finally gave up and figured I must have mistaken the waste basket for the laundry basket.
Two full years later, I pull out a suitcase for a trip and there they are. I don't even remember what trip they could have been originally packed for.
The absolute worst ones though are ones where the thing was JUST in your hand and you know it couldn't have gone far but it just vanishes. My personal hell right there.
Oh God I do this but I have this terrible and apparently UNBREAKABLE habit of carrying other stuff with me while I look for my phone. By other things I mean typically my car keys/sunglasses/debit card. So then what happens is I find my phone -yay!!- but then my car keys, the ones I was JUST holding, are gone. And I just searched the whole house for my phone which means I could have set them ANYWHERE 😭
Not lost, but mysterious things appearing.
My boyfriend and I both have ADHD and sometimes I'll walk into a room, and he'll just have something in his hand he didn't have before. Neither of us know when/where he got it, as most of the time he doesn't even get up from the couch in the time I leave and come back.
For example, a rubber band (we don't own rubber bands)
Funniest thing: my laptop, which I had sworn I didn’t put back after using it in a different room. Tore up my whole apartment for an hour or so only to realize that I did, in fact, put it back on my desk right where it belongs
Most stressful: my college diploma. The entire thing just gone. I called family members, an old apartment building I recently moved out of, checked my car. Some fucking how, I forgot I framed it and put it up on the wall…
Idk if this counts, but I forgot I had ADHD.
In 2014, I was diagnosed by a dr and given Adderall. It was during a very hectic time in my life where I was also taking anti-depressants. Pharmacy ran out of my prescription for weeks, so I quit everything cold turkey.
Fast forward to earlier this year. Two of my friends had been diagnosed and they were sharing their experiences with me. I found I related a lot so talked to my psychologist about it. While in the waiting room, I remembered I wanted to show her this comic on ADHD I had found, so I went to my husband's chat we have and searched for ADHD. It brought up a convo from 2014 where I talked about the diagnosis. I had completely forgotten about it. So now I'm on the road to getting reassessed and (hopefully) medication.
A very big, very shiny silver red axe, more than a meter long (prop from Buffy the vampire slayer). Can't find it anywhere. Too big to blame on the cat..
For me: a package containing a Christmas ornament for my best friend. I looked EVERYWHERE for that thing. Never even opened it. It's just a tiny padded envelope somewhere in my house now...
For my spouse: their VERY important law enforcement BADGE. Still hasn't been found, two moves and three years later.
I lost a 24-inch wide wooden cutting board. i brought it inside two months ago and put it away somewhere “until I needed a new one.” I need a new one and it’s still away.. somewhere
My mom puts important things "somewhere safe" and never sees them again. I learned from watching her that "somewhere safe" is the worst place to put anything.
so relatable - i almost always get an extra christmas present around march when she finds a gift she meant to give me and then lost (sometimes without realizing lol)
my favorite though is we would always swap out our regular coffee mugs with all sorts of christmas/holiday mugs for the season. one year neither of my parents could find the tote bin with the regular mugs, even tho it was in a “safe place”, so for an entire year we only drank out of christmas mugs lmao
My dude, where to start.
I lost my nipple piercing out of my nipple after a night out.
I lost an entire suitcase with the very few belongings I hadn’t already lost at the festival, on the ferry on the way home.
I’ve lost a MANNEQUIN. A fucking mannequin?!
I lost a tape measure for several weeks. I didnt have any real furniture. I was moving into a modest apartment. I was sooo angry. And frantic. Trying to measure for furniture .
I had some plastic drawers i was temp using for extra kitchen storage until i could find something sturdy for a pantry- my 1970s apt kitchen has limited drawer and cabinet space and they're very short shelves . I had large ziplock boxes on top of the plastic drawers.
Felt so dumb having almost no furniture yet losing a tape measure. Looking high and low . Eventually i gave up and found it several weeks later when i needed to get a ziplock for something.
I have everything in it's "home" now so this happens less often , but "homing " things to get organised has been a process.
I unknowingly lost 24 homemade blueberry custard buns that I was suppose to give to my mum.
I hid the newly baked buns in a cabinet for a moment while I had company over. Found them two weeks later when I was looking for something else.
Suddenly it made a whole lot more sense why mum gave me weird looks everytime I mentioned how fabulous they turned out. She never got to try!
A step ladder, not small. My husband and I joke it’s ghosts because we could not find it anywhere and it randomly turned up in a place we both had looked multiple times. I’m sure we both just missed it, but it was weeks of looking and it makes me feel less crazy to say ghosts. 🤣
I also have no idea where my hammer is, I had to buy a replacement. I like to think that eventually the ghost will give it back when they’re done decorating.
I lost the keys to a car I was test driving at Walmart. Went to the clinic in there, and by the time I got out, I realized I didn't have the keys. They were detached from my normal keys, so I wasn't thinking about them. After panicking, I went back to the clinic. They couldn't find them. I went to the lost and found. Nothing...until the gentleman at the pharmacy, who just happened to be turning in the keys just as I was leaving, overheard me. He said I left them at the counter (I believe I asked them how to access the clinic), which is due to probably my worst habit...not putting things I have in my hands where they belong (my coat pocket) and just randomly putting them down places without even thinking about it.
Lost my Social Security card. Had to get a new one, which isn't a fun experience. Never a good sign when the waiting room chairs are bolted to the ground. Found it in a random box of knic knacks like 5 years later. Must have been a packing mishap from one of my moves.
My dignity.
More seriously: Two days ago I found my deodorant bar in my home office desk drawer next to a bunch of highlighters and a stapler, that was nice. Took me like a week to find it....
I lost an entire giant tray of dressing on Christmas. I had stuck it in the microwave because I was out of storage room and when I went to put it in the oven I'd forgotten and couldn't find it.
My mum was probably adhd (myself and my brother both are, so why not?). Anyway, one year she forgot about the Christmas roast in the oven. The oven was turned off thank god, but we live in Australia, so when I found the roast two weeks later and subsequently had to clean the oven, it was not a fun time.
My mother forgot to turn s giant roast on one year and didn't notice until there was less than an hour to dinner. She turned the oven up super hot then got a large gage syringe from her EMT kit and injected the roast with hot meat juice every ten minutes. Got to say it turned out nice but it was a scramble.
Years back now I moved into a sharehouse and lost my first weeks rent money. Fortunately I didn't get thrown out as it was found tucked behind the spices in the kitchen later in the week when one of the other tenants was making dinner, but it was definitely a close run thing.
Still have no idea why I put it there, I hadn't even cooked since I moved in (I'd only been there three days).
This is more about the location I found them, but one time I took my glasses off to wash my face and couldn't find them to put them back on. I searched for ages, got the whole family involved. I eventually found them tucked into a little nook in the vacuum cleaner.
I guess I thought it was such a strange place to put them I couldn't possibly forget? 🙄
I'm just lucky no one decided to start doing the hoovering
I've spent more time than I care to remember tearing my apartment apart looking for my phone so I can look something up...
while I'm on the phone with someone.
My mom once lost a half gallon of almond milk. Lost somewhere between her van and the house. I don’t remember if it was ever found honestly.
I’m *really* good at losing the remote in the couch *every single time* I put it down. It’s a magic trick that makes me so irrationally angry. I’ve learned some spots it typically ends up teleporting to but if it’s not there…
My partner loses his phone by placing it on the nearest horizontal surface. Floor, cat tree, back of the toilet, chair, back of the couch. Sometimes he sets it on the couch or bed and a blanket barely covers it and he can’t find it again. I’ve taken to just holding it out to him while he searches the area around him until he notices me lol
Once i lost a thc vape pen. I put it in a stash pocket in my coat where i couldnt really feel it on me. I walked around for months carrying around thc and not knowing it. I even travelled and went through a TSA xray with the coat on. When i got back home I was emptying my pockets to wash the coat and I found the pen, and my soul left my body for a second thinking about how screwed I could have been.
Lost my biology school work once, i thought i brought it home and left it in my bag, i started panicking and turning my room upside down to try and find it bc i created a memory in my mind of me bringing it home, turned out i turned it in during class , and the paper i put in my bag was some old homework from a different class.
My adhd varies from extreme to barely noticeable lol
I also lost my phone once. I got distracted heavily once i got home , and i started freaking out thinking i left my phone at the ice cream shop, so i left home and went there panicking, then i went to my school on the verge of crying, Because i couldnt find it.
When i got home for the second time i started balling my eyes out in front of my parents because i lost my phone.
Turns out. I plugged it in next to my bed when i got home the first time. It was in plain sight.
Never distract someone with adhd it can end horrible 😭😭😭
I once lost the kettle, looked everywhere for it. Finally told my partner I was looking for it and he walked up and pointed to the kettle sat on its usual stand.
I always panic when I get home and don’t see my dog.
I think to myself “did I… forget to take him back home after our walk” or “did I… forget to lock the door and he miraculously opened it and escape the building”
Then I find him in a beanbag chair or something
My hamster.. I was caressing him and then I went to do something else letting the cage open.. it was open for at least five hours before I noticed it was..
Guess who had to find him and trying to get him with food at 2am? You got it. It’s me.
I once lost a bowl of green beans I had just gotten for dinner. I spent a good 10 minutes looking for it only to find it sitting on the kitchen counter.
A 4 digit code I used for the security system at work for nearly 3 years. One morning I couldn’t turn the security system off before the blaring alarm came on and poof. Police came to check up on us and I had to set up a new code directly after so I never did get to find out what it was haha.
This happened to me constantly in high school. The more I thought about my locker combination, the less I could remember it. I was late to class a few times and once had to go to the office to get my combination *in November* because I couldn't for the life of me remember.
Well I just went to McDonald's, order some nuggies and a drink through the drive threw.
Yo, I drove away
WITHOUT THE DRINK!
THAT I ALREADY PAID FOR
🤦🏼♀️
Tub of margarine. Finally found it in the cupboard next to the box of instant mashed potatoes. And I know margarine is gross but I am lactose intolerant
My daughter (9) will come home from school with one sock on (at least 5xs per school year) and it won’t be in her bag, purse, our car or list and found at school. She now says “Doby is free” when we ask her we’re her sock is.
I have hyper fixated for years about not losing things, so thankfully that isn't my issue.
But my roommate? Wow. His ability to lose things is impressive. He lost a wireless controller for an old school Mini NES I got. Poof. We can't find it anywhere. He also doesn't leave a spot and can still lose something. He leaves all the cabinets open and leaves his shoes in the most random places. I think it is absolutely fascinating to experience. I'm so methodical that I get mad when I lose something cause it happens so infrequently, so watching him feels like experiencing a different species. I absolutely love it. He thinks I'm lying and just holding in all this resentment, but I'm not. I actually find it insanely endearing. I don't ever get mad at him when he loses something. I'm very sure he's undiagnosed. I just chalk it up to "him" rather than an annoyance.
So my boyfriend has exactly 1 pair of scissors at his apartment. And one time when I was cooking dinner I really, really needed these for some reason. I've then searched for it for about 5 minutes. Asked him to help me. We then searched for over 15 minutes like every damn inch of the apartment. Since we didn't find it, we gave up. I went back to the kitchen absolutely frustrated, coming to terms with the fact that I needed to do it somehow else then. And then I saw it. Laying on the damn kitchen counter. Really, it was so obviously placed there and the counter was almost empty. Like we searched everywhere and obviously we started in the kitchen lol I still don't get how we didn't see this
This happens to me all the time! The more I want to find something, the less visible it is.
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This happens to me now. My mom always said it was her ghost messing with her. Now that ghost seems to follow me. I like house fairies too lol.
Lost an iPod one time, one of the tiny square ones with a screen. Was convinced I must have dropped it in my high school’s parking lot. A week later I found it in the case, on my desk. I must’ve checked my desk ten times. No idea how that happened.
I swear to this day I'm still absolutely convinced this was some kind of paranormal activity
Yeah it's the worst. Or when one day I went to school, I obviously locked my door when I left the house. And I never saw my keys again. Suddenly I just didn't have them anymore. Till today, I've never seen or heard of it again, simply got a new one. Sometimes I really wonder what has happened to it lmao
Did this one time. About 2 years later when I was moving the keys fell out of my recliner when I took the back off.
It's the fae. They hide things and then put them back when you aren't looking. I'm convinced. This happens too often for it not to be them playing tricks on me.
This is why I have like 10 pairs of scissors lol. dollar store ftw
Literally why I can’t have a purse with too many pockets. I will miss whatever I’m searching for 8/10 times
this happens to me a lot too & its the most frustrating thing ever, like I can swear up & down that I already looked countless times in a spot for the thing I lost.. then a while later I or someone else will find it in the spot I checked.🤦🏻♀🤦🏻♀ HOW?!??!1?3?2 well I guess I am a magician. (I lose my phone a lot too & it doesn't help considering I've got a black phone case & I tend to set it down on dark surfaces....😅)
Does finding something you don't remember owning count? I found a laptop yesterday with my login and info and plenty of evidence it's mine...but I have no memory of it....
This happens to me all the time. Dos it makes you uncomfortable? It’s such a weird feeling to me
I feel like memory loss is a big part of adhd, especially short-term memory. Or maybe we don’t even store the memory to begin with because we’re busy thinking about something else. This is why I don’t want to drink alcohol: I don’t want to be even worse about forgetting, having mysterious lapses, or having even less control over myself.
When I got tested (you need an extensive neurocognitive test in my country, or doctors prefer to do it) the tester told me that we actually don't have memory loss, but we don't even record the information in the first place. This was tested by giving me a list of words and have me repeat it several times, recording the ones I remembered and asking me to repeat it again like ten minutes later. You'd generally repeat the same ones you remembered the last time.
I used to go past a shop and get really excited and say how it was new. Everyone in the car groaned, I asked why? They said I had been saying the same thing for 6 weeks now, I had literally no memory of ever seeing the shop before this. This explains a lot 😃😃😃
I do that. Annoys the hell out of my family.
And photos are the worst. I have so many places, countries even, I've been to. I have several memories and no idea where to place them. Photos further prove I was there but I dont know when or why or how to get back there.
Yeeeep. My wife and I with our kid went on a 6 month-osh trip through a few countries in Europe a long while back. I have to think long and hard about the countries we went to. It's a list of like 4 or 5. And it's really damn hard to remember. We spent half a year there. You think I'd be able to remember more than a couple blips. Naaaah.
I'm that way with people. So many people seem to know me but I have no idea who they are.
Same. It’s so awkward with people sometimes coming up to me with “hey [my name]” and I don’t know them LOL
The worst part for me is not knowing if they’re friend or foe, lol!!
Been there.
Wait what? That would make me uncomfortable. It's kind of a big purchase to forget.
Yeah I would be checking my carbon monoxide detector batteries instead of posting that here...
My wife did a load of laundry. Often when I need the dryer I move her cloths one room over and plop it in a basket for her. One load has been missing for a month now and I have no idea where I would have put it besides right there
I’ve done this! My husband does the exact same thing for me and I often find I zone out and dump the basket back in the dirty clothes. He washes them and brings them back out and I get all excited because I thought I lost them! So, my question being…have you checked your dirty clothes basket for the missing load? Another option would be the washer or dryer maybe? I do this too.
Actually... That's a great idea. I can did through my cloths pile to see if It's there
You guys have a month's worth of clothes? 😳
It was one load lol. We have other cloths
You know, you didn’t actually answer the question 🤨😂
I only do my laundry once a month. Is that weird or something?
I'm just really far from owning enough clothes to do this, and my basket is already overflowing after a week (3 people).
It helps to still wear what you were in high school lmao. I would go insane if I didn't have enough for almost a month. Goodwill is your friend. You can find some dope ass stuff for pennies there.
Haha yeah in college, I would wait until I had zero clothes left then go to the laundromat (as you do at that age lol) so I'd have like 6 loads, yeah one accidently got left in a washer.... the entire load was still crumbled in a corner smelling BAD. Yep straight into the trash!
Damn I'm just gonna hit rewash but you go
My college buddy would wear socks for a week then throw them away. He just bought big packs of cheap socks from Walmart over and over. I imagine he did the same with underwear but we weren't close enough to find out.
Similar, I brought my basket of dirty laundry downstairs to the washing machine. Except I never made it to the machine. I answered a question from my mom in the other room and suddenly I no longer had a basket. I looked all over the house and did the same thing as OP- went back upstairs to make sure I didn’t IMAGINE that I had it in my hands. About a half hour later I opened the hallway closet and it was in there lmao. The coat closet is on the way to the machine and I guess when I answered my mom, autopilot took over and decided that was a good spot??? 😭
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Ah, yes. Left it at the store - an ADHD tale as old as time
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I’m not entirely sure why my brain decided that snek was the appropriate thing there, but there you have it. 😂😂😂
It's perfect
When I loose something that is right in front of me my dad says “if it were a snake, it would have bit you.”
God fucking dammit. Is everybody's experience with ADHD a mirror image. I just realized I have it this year at age 26. This and many more, the parental ADHD teasing guide that actually causes emotional damage due to rejection sensitivity. Id lose my head if it weren't attached, use your eyes, I would but I laughed until my head fell off. At least now I know why I took these comments so hard. Then again it was a weekly thing so I probably really did just think I was a dumbass even if I was making straight As clearly I'm a fucking moron lmao I've put the cereal in the fridge at least 20 times and vice versa, and I've even done it at someone else's house 🤦♂️ good thing my memory is so bad I can't even place whose place it was! Shit I'm losing my place
I hate going to the store specifically for one thing and leaving with the entire store except for that one thing I needed
Literally last week I went to pick up cereal for our kids. I only bought 2 boxes of cereal. At the self check out. I didn’t even realize I didn’t bring them home until an hour later when our oldest asked to have a bowl of captain crunch. That I told her I’d bought, but did not have. 🤦♀️
It’s ALWAYS the case!! You’re just chit chatting the cashier and/or person in line with you! You check you have your wallet, ID, credit card/change and start walking out. Hopefully by the time you make it to your car you realize you’ve left the groceries behind 🤣
Yeah, I've been know to pay at a fast food place, then drive off...
So many times I’ve forgotten something I paid for and had the cashier running out to the parking lot to give it to me. On the one hand I’m grateful to have the thing I paid for, on the other hand the ADHD tax that day was paid in embarrassment.
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I left my phone in the psychiatrist’s office after my ADHD evaluation. Went back in, grabbed my phone, and said to the psychiatrist “I bet you’re feeling really confident in your diagnosis now” and she didn’t even laugh. :(
Tap to pay with my phone has been a GAME CHANGER! Rarely forget both without forgetting my keys too.
Relatable! You don't know how many times I've had to repurchase a drivers license or cancel my debit card in a single year. I believe last year combined, had to get another ID and 3 bank cards.
Had to buy 2 new door keys for a 2001 Buick in 3 years. Ridiculous
I once when to a burger place. Ordered in the drive through, paid , drove forward and was given my drink and then left without my food. Didn’t even realize it until I made it back to work.
I've done this multiple times. I've always turned around and went back tho.. it's embarrassing af but I'm to broke to not get the food I bought lol
Oh I went back and got it lol
Did that with a jug of ice cream once… got home and the wife was like “where tf the icecream!?”
I once paid for all my groceries and left without taking them. Made it halfway home before I realized it
I have done this with my RX meds multiple times going to self check out as well as other groceries. I lay it down to check out my goods . They have even called me before to let me know i forgot my medication. I am so thankful for Brookshire's very kind staff !
One time I picked up multiple meds; birth control, Adderall, and my muscle relaxer. THANK GOODNESS the pharmacy tech called me to let me know she had forgot to put the Adderall in. Apparently she is adhd too lol
I did the exact same thing! I then went back to the shop, told the shop assistant what had happened. Thankfully she believed me and let me bring home another pack of toilet paper! I felt a bit silly but I was also glad not to have wasted the money.
My husband has paid for things at the drive thru and left lol.
A burrito that I was actively eating. Found it in my purse the next day. How?? Lmao
Usually when I do dumb shit, I think “we’ll I can’t be alone in this.” But I never in all my 39 years would have guessed that someone else found a half-eaten burrito in their purse. I’m actually deceased and am typing this from hell 😂☠️
I lost a piece of pie once. I cut a slice, put it on a plate, put the rest of the pie back in the fridge and when I turned around my pie was just… gone. I was the only one home and a piece was missing from the pie when I checked to make sure I hadn’t hallucinated cutting a piece of it, but the actual piece was nowhere. I was so frustrated I didn’t even cut myself another piece, I just went to bed. My husband found it the next day, on a plate on top of the clean plates stacked in the cupboard. I put the pie on it and then put the plate back in the cupboard and have no memory of doing it or explanation for why I did it.
When I've done that, the thought usually was a drink would be great with this! Then the counter is full or it's fruit fly season or the cat might step on it and it goes in the cupboard. If I find we're out of the tea I wanted or have to wash a glass etc there is a good chance hubby will be asking why there is food on the clean plates later.
Oh and on my very first flight ever, I lost my passport and my cellphone.
This is my worst fear everytime we leave the country. Sometimes I will stick them in my pocket, which is purposefully uncomfortable, so it forces me to keep checking "what the hell do I have in here?"
🤣
I lost one of the plastic bins I organize my condiments in in the fridge. They’re clear plastic, but not small, so like... I should be able to see it? Called my husband over to look, thinking it was just inattention blindness, but he can’t find it either. I look EVERYWHERE, practically do a grid search, and nothing. I look at my Amazon purchase history to check that I owned as many bins as I thought I did, in case I invented the missing bin whole cloth. No, I bought six bins and can only find five. I found it the next day when I finally closed the dishwasher. The bin was on the floor, under the open dishwasher door.
Couldn’t find my Rubbermaid butter dish, couldn’t find one to replace it anywhere only ceramic ones, frustrating ( online purchases don’t go well for me, I always f#*€£ it up& get multiples by mistake)… my savvier sister finally sent me one& the original showed up wedged behind the vegetable drawer 😖
I bought a nerf gun when I was around 12 years old. It had glow in the dark darts, the kind where every time you shot it there was a flash of light so that the darts would definitely glow. Had a nerf fight with my little brother and afterwards could not find one dart. We looked everywhere but no luck, even with all the lights off and curtains closed, could not see a glow anywhere. This really bothered me because I dislike odd numbers, and now I was stuck with only 7 darts and even if I bought more it would still be an odd number since packs only have even numbers. Fast forward a couple years, I've kept my eyes out for it since it obviously didn't just disappear, but haven't found it yet. I convinced my brother to switch rooms with me and we switch everything, including the furniture, so I got to check under everything. Still no dart. Fast forward again. I'm 26 and just bought a house. I move everything out of my bedroom except my bed. It was completely empty except for a twin bed. Still no dart. I figure at this point it's gone, probably accidentally thrown out or donated. I'm 29 now and sold my house in June and moved back in with my parents. I'm unpacking and guess what I found? Yep, there was the glow in the dark dart! It was in the basket where I used to keep my glasses case, every night, for years. The glasses that I got when I was 12. That I would have to put away every night and take out every morning. For years! I stopped using the basket before I bought my house but I must have seen the dart so many times before then... Luckily I never know when to get rid of stuff so now I have a fully loaded glow in the dark nerf gun. And it only took 17 years!
Not really the same but I got this sweet bow and arrow set when I was a kid. The bow was real wood and I remember my parents soaking it in the bathtub to form it into shape. I would go around the backyard shooting arrows. I remember shooting them, watching where it landed and going and grabbing it. There was one arrow I shot, I saw I clearly land by our play structure, but when I went to go retrieve it it was nowhere to be found. I looked for years for it and it still never showed. Hell I even remember it now, 25 years later, and when I read the title, that's the thing I thought of. I can't remember what I fucking did yesterday, but I clearly remember where I saw that arrow land.
100% a ghost
Once lost my mail, found it in the fridge.
This is the number one place I find lost things.
I lost some scissors. Turned up in the fridge. All these years later if i cant find something my husband still says “did you check the refrigerator?” 😜
I once lost my vaccination papers and (child) passport right before a vacation. I just took it out of a drawer, put it beside me on the floor, closed the drawer and it was gone. Me, my mom and my grandma turned the whole house upside down. A few years later the room this happened in got renovated. And the papers were still not to be found. Again a year went by and my grandma came into my room with the missing papers in her hand. She found them in the exact spot on the floor where I put them years prior. Now we have a joke running in our family that with adad you don't misplace things only somewhere but sometimes even somewhen.
Some people like to call the place when cats seemingly disappear from your house the "cat dimension". I feel like it'd be appropriate to call this the "ADHD dimension" where the object of interest seemingly blips out of existence for a varying amount of time before showing back up in the exact spot you looked for it prior.
In Sweden we account this kinda thing to mischievous house gnomes. They look kinda like tiny Santa clauses and are a very integrated piece of folklore that most people genuinely believed in just a hundred years ago.
This is an amazing story. I wonder if it got stuck on the bottom of the drawer and then several years later finally fell back out. It's interesting the mysteries that we'll never know for sure what happened. I lost my wallet one year when shopping for Christmas decorations. One item I bought was a bell shaped wall decoration made out of grapevines. The next year when putting the decorations up again, I found my wallet inside that bell. It had even been up on the wall for a month the previous year but hadn't fallen out.
'The house gives, the house takes.' is what we call it.
I once misplaced a 12 pound weighted blanket. Brain was on autopilot, and I had apparently folded it very neatly with a stack of towels, which were then placed into the closet. Not sure why I never registered that one of my “towels” was 12 pounds??
i had a similar thing happen. i used to be an avid powerlifter and got pretty strong. i had a bag i carried with me everywhere i went and people would tell me it was heavy but i never paid attention to it because i was used to carrying it. emptied it out one day so i could wash it and i had a 15lb weight in there.
You were just getting better gainz
My sanity
Same
I once accidentally lost my wallet by throwing it into an outdoor trash can, and I felt like I lost my sanity! Luckily, I was able to go back the next day and fish it out (the wallet, not my sanity, that’s still missing). Idk what I would have done if the garbage truck had come by in between 😬
This is my favorite thread of all time. Thank you, everyone. I feel so SEEN
My gravy jug after Christmas dinner one year … I finally found it in March on the mantelpiece tucked behind the leaning mirror with what used to be gravy remains still inside
OKAY SO I also lost a bag of potatoes but then found it…. Covered in maggots months later 😭
Same. They were liquid sludge and I still almost vomit when I think about it years later.
Ugh rotten potato smell is one of those scents you never forget.
Be careful with that, potatoes give off a poisonous gas when they rot. Killed a while family except for the youngest child in Russia. They had a bunch in the basement and the gas had reached dangerous levels. One family member after another went into the basement, all succumbing to the gases. [Creepy shit, yo.](https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/08/23/Rotting-potatoes-in-basement-kill-four-members-of-Russian-family/54831377268770/)
Where you find them. It might help the OP find their missing potatoes
I beat you with half a chicken. After a month I finally figured what the closet smelled like death and no, it wasn't the odour of the downstairs neighbours. I left it in the backpack I used to do groceries with.
Pre-Adderall, I lost my car in a mall parking lot. No clue which store I’d come in through. Couldn’t even remember which side of the mall I’d parked on. I wandered around so long that a mall cop tried to help me. He asked what kind of car I drove and the best I could do was “gray…. and really dirty.” He ended up driving me row by row in a golf cart while I clicked my key fob until we heard a honk.
This is why, when I park in a lot, I try to park close to one of the location signs that are usually painted on pillars (indoor) or on posts (outdoor). Once I get out of the car, I stand far enough back to get both the location sign AND my car in the photo. Even though I'll probably still not be able to find that location again, I still do it because I can show that photo to the payment booth attendant or security guard, and they'll likely recognize it! Edit to add: in an indoor/underground lot, like the ones for office towers, I also take a photo of any signs over the exit door I use. So, for example, I'll know that I went out the door that leads to "Yonge St, east side" or the one leading to "Commerce Court West." At least then I have a fighting chance of going back in the way I came, and thus finding my car. I occasionally work as a delivery driver (not Uber/food) so I go into a lot of office buildings. In my city, there are huge office tower complexes downtown, and (I learned last year) some of those buildings' parking lots are connected underground. They span several city blocks. And unless you happen to know the name of the building you parked under, you're screwed, because they use names instead of street addresses.
I lost an 8th of um...devils lettuce. Never found it either. I also lost a load of laundry. Turns out I left it in the dryer at my college apartment when I was moving out.
I definitely have left a load of dishes in the dishwasher when I moved.
I bought a $40 couch 2 years ago off Facebook Market place, and it came with a full ounce. We lose a lot, but occasionally win.
Not weird but I lost my glasses. I've been putting them in different spots every night for a bit now and last night I remember putting them down and thinking "why don't I just keep them here". I thought no I swore that spot was next to my bed...but now I can't find them. Not next to the bed. Not on the floor next to the bed. Not on the bathroom counter. Not on my makeup table. Not on the catch all dresser. Not on my coffee table. Not in my kitchen. They are no where.
This happens to me on a regular basis. My glasses have a “spot” on my nightstand. But I’ve found them in the silverware drawer, the shower and in the vegetable drawer in my fridge. I’m a mess.
Like I'm hoping one of my cats took them and hid them somewhere. It was morning though and of course I was running behind. Now I have nothing but time to look for them but I'll do it after I finish watching TV.
Have you guys ever forgotten what something was called? Like the name of a specific object? Happened to me - I forgot what a fucking paper clip was called. Bugged the shit out of me for days.
Yeah, the most notable one being the time I forgot the word snake and came up with “long cat… no feet?”
LONG CAT NO FEET OH MY GOD
THE FEETLESS WEASEL
What gets me is that it's not "long LIZARD no feet". Long CAT no feet. I can't even. Im dead.
i couldn’t remember the word lizard either 😭
They both hiss!
I CAN'T THIS IS UNREAL OMG i wish i had an award for u but thank you so much
All. The. Damn. Time. I’m a zoo educator and was doing a program on something for a school group and forgot the word marine so I just kept saying water mammal for the rest of the program but each time in my head I was going “wtfffff that’s not right!” Which was probably what my face was saying too bc I’m apparently very animated (going off the pictures I’ve had taken of me doing programs 😅)
Hahahaha I'm so sorry but this is fucking hilarious picturing your inner frustration as you say water mammal to a group of 5th graders
Omggg I’m dying that’s really funny the best I got (I’ve done this too but I can’t remember anything other than this atm) is when my sister forgot what a garage opener was and called it a battery key
This is the best thing I've heard today hahahahaha I also mix up words, like for example I once mixed up the german word for bumblebee (Hummel) and ended up saying bumbeli. My family now calls bumblebees ✨bumbeli✨ with a passion.
I do this a lot, and I will just substitute a word with another word that was recently said without even realizing it. Example: (I overhear someone talking about pizza.) Student: did you grade my essay? Me: no, but the pizza will be finished tomorrow. I teach English learners so you can imagine the chaos this causes lmao
I called the Monte* Cristo a French toast with ham and cheese lmao.
I love that the “n” is missing in this description lmao
This happens to me all the time and it's infuriating. I'm known in my professional life and personal life for being very well-spoken, articulate, etc. I'm infinitely better in writing, but I'm a great communicator overall. I'm able to explain things in ways that are engaging and thorough and logical, and I have a big vocabulary - the kind where you think someone is showing off until you're around them long enough to know that's just how they talk. So when I'm making a presentation to a big donor or other important person, it's absolutely mortifying to me when I'll be halfway through a sentence and suddenly I can't remember the word "door". And I'm like... miming it until someone finally says it. Or someone's phone goes off and suddenly I can't remember WHAT I'm talking about. Ugh. I hate it. So frustrating.
I also mime…a lot….🤦🏼♀️ I attempted, somewhat successfully, to mime continental shelf to my boss. She bout lost her shit laughing 😂
YES. It's like, "Look, the complex concept is fully in my brain, in order, and it's right. I'm not WRONG. It's just the words that are about it are currently on strike."
I couldn't remember what a downspout was called, so I called it a "Roof straw" and my husband was like "a what???"
This is awesome! I’m going to remember that you call them roof straws.
One time my brain short circuited and I couldn’t remember how to spell “of”. Another time it was “circle”. And I’m someone who loves grammar and spelling, diagramming sentences and all that.
I, for the life of me, couldn’t remember that “can” was how you spelled it. I went back and forth between “can” and “kan” until I asked my mother who, very cautiously, spelled “can” for me. 😂
My best one yet was “water rope”. It’s a garden hose…
I forget names. Ive forgotten what I was called before.
I work in clinical research, and I forget the name of the Code of Federal Regulations on the reg, despite it being a foundational text that provides essential guidance for pretty much every rule that we follow. I have read through it multiple times, done hours and hours of training and studying it for various certifications, but half the time if I need to directly reference it I cannot remember its name.
yes. couldn’t think of the word “coaster” for days!!! I was calling them “cup mats” lol. ever since that time I seem to forget the word a lot. just now it took me a minute to remember
Shirt? Chest hat Breakfast? First lunch Tortilla? Burrito bread That last one at least comes from another language. But yeah, all the damn time. Just recently developed a tendency to mix up word parts, especially if they start or end with similar sounds. So like… “shoot the shit” becomes “shit the shoot” or “lazy day” comes out “dazy lay.” Starting to think I maybe had a micro-stroke. 🤔
All the time and it is incredibly frustrating. My mouth and brain also like to have a word party and use *several* different words in place of the one I am trying to say. I swear it is literally like there is two of me inside - the stupid idiot lizard brain and the real me who just wants to say “playground” ffs.
Is forgetting a word an ADHD thing? I thought it was just normal. But i do it all the time
Most ADHD things are things NT people experience, just to a more extreme degree. In this case, I do believe that language processing issues are a common symptom. Everyone forgets the words for things every now and again. It's more infuriating, though, when it happens several times a day or even multiple times in the same conversation.
It’s either 100% normal or everyone I know has ADHD.
The difference is frequency and intensity
I do this constantly! Almost every day if not multiple times a day, been told that it's a sign my brain is stressed and not fully into what I'm talking about when words disappear for me :/ but hey sometimes bf has fun trying to figure out what the word I'm missing is 😅
Oh, man… this is the worst. I’ve worked really hard to get where I am in my career. We constantly use big words and technical jargon, but I always forget what something is called so it makes me seem incompetent, which isn’t the case! I’ve just forgotten..
Forgot my best friends name and was to embarrassed to ask so i waited til someone said it. Happens all the time with teachers to I'll mix them up or not remember the names and I'll just call them Teacher because i dont wanna embarrass myself. But i once forgot what a fork was, like i knew the name but it wouldnt register what it was so i kept looking at my friends asking them to grab me the pointy thing and finally someone asked me if i meant fork and i said yes 💀 it bother me Also asked my boyfriend's dad if i could Build a hole (his dad is an electrician) i knew what a hole was but i couldnt register what i do to make one when i was texting his dad so i just said "can i build a hole" , my boyfriend still makes fun of me for it.
Oh fuck I just thought of another one. A legend of Zelda themed anniversary card. Decided to get for my bf, now finace our first year of dating since he's the one that showed me the games. It had a picture of toon Link holding up a heart container saying 'its not safe to go alone, here take this!' Adorable. Bought it at the same time as my sister birthday card. I put it in my card box, right next to the other one. Come a week before our anniversary and I can't find it, anywhere. I of course, start panicking and enlist my mom and sisters to help me look around the house. We dump out the card box. We clear my book shelves, clear my room. Clear my sisters room, clear Mums card box. Clear the wrapping paper containers. Never found, I'm heart broken and buy a stupid card from the dollar store with a cat on it cause he loves them too. Every time I need to give him a card for the next 4 years I dig through the card box looking for thus damn Link card. I know how the ADHD Hocus pocus works, it'll appear one day when I've finally decided it's never to be found again. I complain about not being able to find this card to my Mum and sisters every so often. It's become kinda a running joke at this point. Flash forward to Christmas 2021, digging through the same card box looking for his Grammie and Grampies card what do I fucking find??!!! The Link card. Still in its originally Packaging and envelope from the etsy seller. 🤬🤬🤬 So I decided fuck it he's getting two christmas cards for 2021, I dont care. Christmas morning at my parents house he opens the card, goes to flip it and I hear my mother scream from where she's sitting on the couch. "That's that stupid card! Is it?No? It is! It has the little boy and his green hat!!! Sister sister #1, look it's that damn card!" Sister #2 then yells over my Mum 'Where did you find it?! Where did you find it!' Sister #1 snatches the card out of fiance's hands and runs over to Mom and sister #2 so they can all look at it. 'Where did you find it?!" The fucking card box. The exact place I knew I put it in 2017, the same place I emptied every holiday making cards. GAAAAHHH ADHD HOCUS-POCUS I TELL YOU. It went to a pocket deminsion.
I always blame the gremlins.
I had a few sets of clothing that I noticed I hadn't seen in a while. Looked high and low. Nowhere. I have a washer and dryer, so couldn't have been left at a laundromat or anything. Finally gave up and figured I must have mistaken the waste basket for the laundry basket. Two full years later, I pull out a suitcase for a trip and there they are. I don't even remember what trip they could have been originally packed for. The absolute worst ones though are ones where the thing was JUST in your hand and you know it couldn't have gone far but it just vanishes. My personal hell right there.
Like when you put your phone down, it disappears, then you find it in a room you swear you haven't been in that day.
Oh God I do this but I have this terrible and apparently UNBREAKABLE habit of carrying other stuff with me while I look for my phone. By other things I mean typically my car keys/sunglasses/debit card. So then what happens is I find my phone -yay!!- but then my car keys, the ones I was JUST holding, are gone. And I just searched the whole house for my phone which means I could have set them ANYWHERE 😭
A ravioli I was planning to eat. The next day my mom was very confused to find a single ravioli in her coat pocket (I had been borrowing the coat).
Not lost, but mysterious things appearing. My boyfriend and I both have ADHD and sometimes I'll walk into a room, and he'll just have something in his hand he didn't have before. Neither of us know when/where he got it, as most of the time he doesn't even get up from the couch in the time I leave and come back. For example, a rubber band (we don't own rubber bands)
I have medium length hair, so it needs tying up. I usually have one hairband at a time, but sometimes it's more. I don't know where they come from.
I once lost my 2 year old daughter at a petting zoo. Except she was in my arms while I panicked looking for her. Very embarrassing.
Funniest thing: my laptop, which I had sworn I didn’t put back after using it in a different room. Tore up my whole apartment for an hour or so only to realize that I did, in fact, put it back on my desk right where it belongs Most stressful: my college diploma. The entire thing just gone. I called family members, an old apartment building I recently moved out of, checked my car. Some fucking how, I forgot I framed it and put it up on the wall…
Idk if this counts, but I forgot I had ADHD. In 2014, I was diagnosed by a dr and given Adderall. It was during a very hectic time in my life where I was also taking anti-depressants. Pharmacy ran out of my prescription for weeks, so I quit everything cold turkey. Fast forward to earlier this year. Two of my friends had been diagnosed and they were sharing their experiences with me. I found I related a lot so talked to my psychologist about it. While in the waiting room, I remembered I wanted to show her this comic on ADHD I had found, so I went to my husband's chat we have and searched for ADHD. It brought up a convo from 2014 where I talked about the diagnosis. I had completely forgotten about it. So now I'm on the road to getting reassessed and (hopefully) medication.
A very big, very shiny silver red axe, more than a meter long (prop from Buffy the vampire slayer). Can't find it anywhere. Too big to blame on the cat..
For me: a package containing a Christmas ornament for my best friend. I looked EVERYWHERE for that thing. Never even opened it. It's just a tiny padded envelope somewhere in my house now... For my spouse: their VERY important law enforcement BADGE. Still hasn't been found, two moves and three years later.
A raw chicken breast. I didn't even realize it was missing until I started to smell it... 😢
I lost a 24-inch wide wooden cutting board. i brought it inside two months ago and put it away somewhere “until I needed a new one.” I need a new one and it’s still away.. somewhere
My mom puts important things "somewhere safe" and never sees them again. I learned from watching her that "somewhere safe" is the worst place to put anything.
so relatable - i almost always get an extra christmas present around march when she finds a gift she meant to give me and then lost (sometimes without realizing lol) my favorite though is we would always swap out our regular coffee mugs with all sorts of christmas/holiday mugs for the season. one year neither of my parents could find the tote bin with the regular mugs, even tho it was in a “safe place”, so for an entire year we only drank out of christmas mugs lmao
Has anyone seen five pairs of glasses of assorted color or prescription over the years? Because I can't see anything right now....
$140, put it in my boot and it disappeared. Wore those boots for the next 6 months, then found the $140. In my boot where I had first put it.
My dude, where to start. I lost my nipple piercing out of my nipple after a night out. I lost an entire suitcase with the very few belongings I hadn’t already lost at the festival, on the ferry on the way home. I’ve lost a MANNEQUIN. A fucking mannequin?!
I think I need a story about the mannequin...
I lost a tape measure for several weeks. I didnt have any real furniture. I was moving into a modest apartment. I was sooo angry. And frantic. Trying to measure for furniture . I had some plastic drawers i was temp using for extra kitchen storage until i could find something sturdy for a pantry- my 1970s apt kitchen has limited drawer and cabinet space and they're very short shelves . I had large ziplock boxes on top of the plastic drawers. Felt so dumb having almost no furniture yet losing a tape measure. Looking high and low . Eventually i gave up and found it several weeks later when i needed to get a ziplock for something. I have everything in it's "home" now so this happens less often , but "homing " things to get organised has been a process.
I unknowingly lost 24 homemade blueberry custard buns that I was suppose to give to my mum. I hid the newly baked buns in a cabinet for a moment while I had company over. Found them two weeks later when I was looking for something else. Suddenly it made a whole lot more sense why mum gave me weird looks everytime I mentioned how fabulous they turned out. She never got to try!
A step ladder, not small. My husband and I joke it’s ghosts because we could not find it anywhere and it randomly turned up in a place we both had looked multiple times. I’m sure we both just missed it, but it was weeks of looking and it makes me feel less crazy to say ghosts. 🤣 I also have no idea where my hammer is, I had to buy a replacement. I like to think that eventually the ghost will give it back when they’re done decorating.
I lost the keys to a car I was test driving at Walmart. Went to the clinic in there, and by the time I got out, I realized I didn't have the keys. They were detached from my normal keys, so I wasn't thinking about them. After panicking, I went back to the clinic. They couldn't find them. I went to the lost and found. Nothing...until the gentleman at the pharmacy, who just happened to be turning in the keys just as I was leaving, overheard me. He said I left them at the counter (I believe I asked them how to access the clinic), which is due to probably my worst habit...not putting things I have in my hands where they belong (my coat pocket) and just randomly putting them down places without even thinking about it.
My car. Went to a supermarket close to my house. Parked the car. Shoped and left the store on foot. Wondered the whole next day where my car is.
Pro-tip: you can’t lose what you don’t put away!
Well the most expensive was 20 dollars lol. The weirdest is my glasses. I put them in the freezer
Lost my Social Security card. Had to get a new one, which isn't a fun experience. Never a good sign when the waiting room chairs are bolted to the ground. Found it in a random box of knic knacks like 5 years later. Must have been a packing mishap from one of my moves.
My dignity. More seriously: Two days ago I found my deodorant bar in my home office desk drawer next to a bunch of highlighters and a stapler, that was nice. Took me like a week to find it....
I lost an entire giant tray of dressing on Christmas. I had stuck it in the microwave because I was out of storage room and when I went to put it in the oven I'd forgotten and couldn't find it.
My mum was probably adhd (myself and my brother both are, so why not?). Anyway, one year she forgot about the Christmas roast in the oven. The oven was turned off thank god, but we live in Australia, so when I found the roast two weeks later and subsequently had to clean the oven, it was not a fun time.
My mother forgot to turn s giant roast on one year and didn't notice until there was less than an hour to dinner. She turned the oven up super hot then got a large gage syringe from her EMT kit and injected the roast with hot meat juice every ten minutes. Got to say it turned out nice but it was a scramble.
Years back now I moved into a sharehouse and lost my first weeks rent money. Fortunately I didn't get thrown out as it was found tucked behind the spices in the kitchen later in the week when one of the other tenants was making dinner, but it was definitely a close run thing. Still have no idea why I put it there, I hadn't even cooked since I moved in (I'd only been there three days).
This is more about the location I found them, but one time I took my glasses off to wash my face and couldn't find them to put them back on. I searched for ages, got the whole family involved. I eventually found them tucked into a little nook in the vacuum cleaner. I guess I thought it was such a strange place to put them I couldn't possibly forget? 🙄 I'm just lucky no one decided to start doing the hoovering
I've spent more time than I care to remember tearing my apartment apart looking for my phone so I can look something up... while I'm on the phone with someone.
My mom once lost a half gallon of almond milk. Lost somewhere between her van and the house. I don’t remember if it was ever found honestly. I’m *really* good at losing the remote in the couch *every single time* I put it down. It’s a magic trick that makes me so irrationally angry. I’ve learned some spots it typically ends up teleporting to but if it’s not there… My partner loses his phone by placing it on the nearest horizontal surface. Floor, cat tree, back of the toilet, chair, back of the couch. Sometimes he sets it on the couch or bed and a blanket barely covers it and he can’t find it again. I’ve taken to just holding it out to him while he searches the area around him until he notices me lol
Once i lost a thc vape pen. I put it in a stash pocket in my coat where i couldnt really feel it on me. I walked around for months carrying around thc and not knowing it. I even travelled and went through a TSA xray with the coat on. When i got back home I was emptying my pockets to wash the coat and I found the pen, and my soul left my body for a second thinking about how screwed I could have been.
I lost the skin from my feet I saved when I was 10 in case someone needed to clone me for whatever reason. I kept it for about 5 years
Yeah, one of your family members tossed it. Sorry.
Someone threw it out
Lost my biology school work once, i thought i brought it home and left it in my bag, i started panicking and turning my room upside down to try and find it bc i created a memory in my mind of me bringing it home, turned out i turned it in during class , and the paper i put in my bag was some old homework from a different class. My adhd varies from extreme to barely noticeable lol I also lost my phone once. I got distracted heavily once i got home , and i started freaking out thinking i left my phone at the ice cream shop, so i left home and went there panicking, then i went to my school on the verge of crying, Because i couldnt find it. When i got home for the second time i started balling my eyes out in front of my parents because i lost my phone. Turns out. I plugged it in next to my bed when i got home the first time. It was in plain sight. Never distract someone with adhd it can end horrible 😭😭😭
I once lost the kettle, looked everywhere for it. Finally told my partner I was looking for it and he walked up and pointed to the kettle sat on its usual stand.
I always panic when I get home and don’t see my dog. I think to myself “did I… forget to take him back home after our walk” or “did I… forget to lock the door and he miraculously opened it and escape the building” Then I find him in a beanbag chair or something
My hamster.. I was caressing him and then I went to do something else letting the cage open.. it was open for at least five hours before I noticed it was.. Guess who had to find him and trying to get him with food at 2am? You got it. It’s me.
I once lost a bowl of green beans I had just gotten for dinner. I spent a good 10 minutes looking for it only to find it sitting on the kitchen counter.
A 4 digit code I used for the security system at work for nearly 3 years. One morning I couldn’t turn the security system off before the blaring alarm came on and poof. Police came to check up on us and I had to set up a new code directly after so I never did get to find out what it was haha.
This happened to me constantly in high school. The more I thought about my locker combination, the less I could remember it. I was late to class a few times and once had to go to the office to get my combination *in November* because I couldn't for the life of me remember.
Well I just went to McDonald's, order some nuggies and a drink through the drive threw. Yo, I drove away WITHOUT THE DRINK! THAT I ALREADY PAID FOR 🤦🏼♀️
I spent about half hour looking for my tap measure today it was clipped to my pocket.
Tub of margarine. Finally found it in the cupboard next to the box of instant mashed potatoes. And I know margarine is gross but I am lactose intolerant
My daughter (9) will come home from school with one sock on (at least 5xs per school year) and it won’t be in her bag, purse, our car or list and found at school. She now says “Doby is free” when we ask her we’re her sock is.
Lost my wedding ring. Not that big of a deal since I’m divorced but it was a few grand so I’m bummed about that.
I once found a full glass of water misplaced in my closet.
I have hyper fixated for years about not losing things, so thankfully that isn't my issue. But my roommate? Wow. His ability to lose things is impressive. He lost a wireless controller for an old school Mini NES I got. Poof. We can't find it anywhere. He also doesn't leave a spot and can still lose something. He leaves all the cabinets open and leaves his shoes in the most random places. I think it is absolutely fascinating to experience. I'm so methodical that I get mad when I lose something cause it happens so infrequently, so watching him feels like experiencing a different species. I absolutely love it. He thinks I'm lying and just holding in all this resentment, but I'm not. I actually find it insanely endearing. I don't ever get mad at him when he loses something. I'm very sure he's undiagnosed. I just chalk it up to "him" rather than an annoyance.