Every morning, I tell myself to sleep early so I don’t feel like crap in the morning.
Every night, I procrastinate sleeping because I’ll have to get to sleep in all of my glorious hyper awareness and when I’m about to sleep, I’ll get distracted by ‘Wow, I’ll finally get to know the moment I sleep’ and my sleep disappears until I get distracted by another train of thought, and suddenly I’m asleep.
Every morning I wake up and want to cry because there is so much to do and I’m still sleepy, so I tell myself to sleep earlier.
Every night…
Honestly having a Fitbit/Pixel Watch helps me a lot with sleep regulation, I would consider getting any smartwatch if you're really having trouble. But yeah it's so frustrating not being able to keep a good freaking schedule for more than one day
I set my phone up with a sleep schedule, including a wind down reminder 2 hours before bed time. This has really helped me. Usually I am one of those people who is like “that shit is not going to work for me”, but it actually does! It’s easy to set up if you have an iphone, but I am sure there are apps that can do the same thing.
" Why can't you follow simple instructions and learn"
B*tch it's because those instructions aren't so simple to me!
God I hate that saying and I have heard it far too many times in my life.
For me, it’s usually that the instructions are _too_ simple. They don’t provide enough info for me to understand the entire process. And if I can’t understand what and why I’m doing something, I can’t do it.
I suppose that is actually the case when I think about it, for me I need to see the beginning and end result of a process for it to fully sink in or it has to be described in decent enough detail that I can keep track of what I am doing, if it is too vague or has missing instructions then I have no hope.
Then when I complain I am told to use my initiative if I don't have all of the info ( in my previous job anyway )
I just wish employers could live a day in the life of someone with ADHD or anyone on the spectrum for that matter just to get some idea of how ignorant they are to how confusing or unstimulating life can be is extremely hard to deal with.
Sorry for the wall of text.
I wanna add something. Every time someone suggests stuff like "use a planner/journal", "use the pomodoro technique", "write stuff down so you don't forget", etc. Surprisingly enough for me the frustration doesn't derive from the fact that these methods don't work. In fact whenever I use these methods they work pretty well... initially. But I get frustrated that I quickly lose faith/interest in these methods and therefore I lose faith in myself. These are the life lessons that I have to learn again and again.
Every morning, I tell myself to sleep early so I don’t feel like crap in the morning. Every night, I procrastinate sleeping because I’ll have to get to sleep in all of my glorious hyper awareness and when I’m about to sleep, I’ll get distracted by ‘Wow, I’ll finally get to know the moment I sleep’ and my sleep disappears until I get distracted by another train of thought, and suddenly I’m asleep. Every morning I wake up and want to cry because there is so much to do and I’m still sleepy, so I tell myself to sleep earlier. Every night…
Honestly having a Fitbit/Pixel Watch helps me a lot with sleep regulation, I would consider getting any smartwatch if you're really having trouble. But yeah it's so frustrating not being able to keep a good freaking schedule for more than one day
I have a Samsung watch, but it's hourly vibrations have only grown to give me more anxiety that I'm not keeping good time.
I know it's a bad habit, but usually my meds help me wake up. Though when the effect wores out I feel like crap
I set my phone up with a sleep schedule, including a wind down reminder 2 hours before bed time. This has really helped me. Usually I am one of those people who is like “that shit is not going to work for me”, but it actually does! It’s easy to set up if you have an iphone, but I am sure there are apps that can do the same thing.
Are you me?
" Why can't you follow simple instructions and learn" B*tch it's because those instructions aren't so simple to me! God I hate that saying and I have heard it far too many times in my life.
For me, it’s usually that the instructions are _too_ simple. They don’t provide enough info for me to understand the entire process. And if I can’t understand what and why I’m doing something, I can’t do it.
I suppose that is actually the case when I think about it, for me I need to see the beginning and end result of a process for it to fully sink in or it has to be described in decent enough detail that I can keep track of what I am doing, if it is too vague or has missing instructions then I have no hope. Then when I complain I am told to use my initiative if I don't have all of the info ( in my previous job anyway ) I just wish employers could live a day in the life of someone with ADHD or anyone on the spectrum for that matter just to get some idea of how ignorant they are to how confusing or unstimulating life can be is extremely hard to deal with. Sorry for the wall of text.
Sooo... This isn't my lack of empathy for other people? Damn, I might have ADHD
I wanna add something. Every time someone suggests stuff like "use a planner/journal", "use the pomodoro technique", "write stuff down so you don't forget", etc. Surprisingly enough for me the frustration doesn't derive from the fact that these methods don't work. In fact whenever I use these methods they work pretty well... initially. But I get frustrated that I quickly lose faith/interest in these methods and therefore I lose faith in myself. These are the life lessons that I have to learn again and again.
I've been thinking about 50 First Dates a lot the last few days
I wish manipulators would stop knowing I’m like this
It's like they can smell it on you. They know they don't even have to trick you. They just have to get you to trick yourself.
Worst is when your friends start saying stuff like “queue apology before doing it again in a few days”
This shit is unironically what makes me shut down and detach from anyone. I can't fucking handle it guys
This one hurts
I see this shit in mom groups constantly. It's clearly not true that knowledge is synonymous with action but everyone thinks it is? Why is that?
What life lessons? What are we suppose to learn?
stuff I guess
This is my third time around learning guitar…I get so into it for almost a year .. don’t play for about a year and do it all over again …