Is misreading things because your brain is 10 steps ahead part of this list? Cause I definitely read AD Home Depot.
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“You can fuck it up. We can’t help.”
Wait 70% of people are really mad at me??
…that’s actually an improvement over earlier today.
I’m happy when crisis mode hits. I have that on lock
I was a paramedic back in my 20’s and 30’s. Constant crisis mode. I am a master of that shit. Clearest I ever am is in complete and utter chaos. That shit breaks your brain even worse though.
What do you mean it breaks your brain? Isn’t it good if you feel engaged in your work?
Imagine what you see and do every day as a paramedic. Now make it 100 times worse than you can even imagine and immerse yourself in it every day. The worst people have to offer as your daily routine. That is not good for anyone. PTSD is real. Added to ADHD it’s a nightmare as we have been told repeatedly by doctors and researchers who study it.
Damn bro, I hope you’re in a better place now.
I get shit done. But it also accumulates stress & the reason for crisis might not be relevant or sensible. But I guess it floats the goat, and I have no (good) other options.
I’m still convinced the stress of crisis mode is subtracting years from my life
Yeah, I think it’s pretty evident in my case already. I used to intentionally rely on adrenaline from stress to do my job.
Then again, it’s not like I wanna live that long anyway, but I think stress worsens the later quality of file as well.
Yeah I’m definitely aging faster than most of my family.
No I mean like shit is on fire crisis. It calms me down because my full attention can be focused instead of having the background track monkey jumping everywhere
Oh, yes, that makes more sense. That sweet calmness in my brainhole chuckling at everyone else in panic mode not making any sense.
In came here from All, I like your memes but I am confused: what’s the deal with the 70% of belongings gone? Are they just AWOL or something else?
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Thanks
I almost have the opposite of this, I’ll have an image of where everything goes in my head, and if it’s not there I’m like that T Rex in Jurassic park staring right at it but not seeing it.
I can definitely see the frustration and difficulty that would cause for you.
it can be both for us. We can remember where various trinkets are that we placed somewhere months ago if we want, to but the thing is we won’t remember to want to remember that.
Example: my spare lens cap for my camera is currently in my cupboard in a bag full of rechargable batteries and some spare USB C cables.
Example 2: My journal in which I’m supposed to write in daily has become a part of the table and therefore I don’t acknowledge it being there at all. I can walk past it and look at it but not see it multiple times a day.
Example 3: I need reminders on my phone to call my parents from time to time because if they’re not in my immediate environment they sort, don’t exist in my mind.
My mind works purely on “if I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist, until I’m reminded of it by something else” with an additional qurik that seeing isn’t just looking, because things can simply become a part of the enviorment.
This last summer I decided to fire up the grill, and when I opened the lid I discovered my missing baking sheet covered in aluminum foil. It had been there for weeks.
Our temporary memory is bad. Memories that are supposed to last a couple hours or a couple days, but not forever, end up lasting a few minutes.
That means if we put something somewhere, we easily forget where we put it and it ends up lost. If that place is in public, that item might be lost forever.
If it’s in our own home, it’ll show back up eventually, but not when we need it and it can easily end up lost again. I spent a significant amount of time over the summer looking for my bike lock. I found it yesterday while looking for my glove to go skiing.
Having a messy house (also a side effect of symptoms) compounds this by facilitating things going missing.
If it’s in our own home, it’ll show back up eventually,
You’d think so, but I’m still looking for those shoes I lost 10 years ago during a school break. I basically spent the whole break indoors and so lost track of my shoes. They MUST be inside somewhere, but fuck me if I can figure out where.
I like to think of it as having low RAM (and sometimes a random program/thought has a memory leak). It’s not that someone just fully and completely forgets they put their food in the (muted) microwave, it’s that the task is no longer running because they had to pick up the loaf of bread that fell on the floor or maybe their ponytail needs fixing. There’s not enough RAM to run Eat Microwaved Food AND Fix Ponytail. With Fix Ponytail running and ending there’s enough RAM to run something else but it has to be manually initiated.
A lot of people with adhd have bad memories. Well a certain kind of memory. Very easy to either forget where something is, or take it with you somewhere and forget you have and then leave it. I’ve lost so many coats that way.
Or take that one random memory with you to the grave.
I honestly don’t remember what I was doing 4 hours ago, but my uncles car in 1992 was a light brown BMW 3 series.
Thanks, that makes sense and sounds like it would be very frustrating
I’ve lost so much stuff in coats this way
To add to OP’s answer:
I have to put things that need to be attended to somewhere incredibly obvious or else I will forget to attend to it. Like if I have to do laundry but the washer is taken, I have to put the basket in the middle of my doorway so that I literally can’t ignore it. Otherwise I won’t remember until I’m going to sleep and see the pile of dirty clothes. Or if I want to put off dishes until later I have to set the dirty ones that accumulated on my desk on my staircase or else they just won’t get taken to the washer that day lol
Or like, if I have to do something extra at work that’s outside of my normal routine, I have to set an alarm/reminder or be hyper-conscious of it without breaking concentration or else I’ll just continue on with my normal routine.
They have been misplaced and refuse to identify their new location.
And 70% is kind of a low ball in my case.
There’s a part two; Looking for that One Thing, Found that Other Thing and now you don’t remember what you were looking for.
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They’re around here someplace. I think?
tbf I don’t have this one, I know where everything is at all times to an insane level of detail, unless of course anything is moved or I’m trying to get things together to actually use them LOL
For me, they’re AWOL. I.e. they still somewhere in my space, but I don’t know where, so they’re as good as gone until I stumble upon them.
I go shopping there every day, got a loyalty card but I refuse any discounts offered & insist to always pay in full.
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Nah all that happens then is I sleep for 20 hours a day and eventually start reading books again. I tried this when I couldn’t pay my phone bill.
