The lighter side of ADHD
Successfully managing ADHD means throwing the empty shampoo bottle towards the bathroom door so you'll see it when you walk out and then write "Shampoo" on the chalkboard hung up next to your front door where you'll see it before you go shopping so you can put it on the shopping list on your phone.
Seriously my adhd management system is basically "putting shit where I'll trip over it" and then waiting to get sick of still deliberately stepping over/around the inconveniently placed item.
Until watching a different member of the household step over it ONE TIME, at which point it becomes the #1 priority.
it's this, or recognizing that you don't actually need shampoo and can just buy a life supply of soap bars all at once and use that for washing every part of your body.
i've come to recognize that a big part of why i find minimalism so nice is because it brings the amount of things i need to remember down to something vaguely manageable.
If you're curly, that means having straws in place of hair
Secret tech is to just buy like 4 bottles at a time, then you only have to deal with the problem 25% of the time
But you still have to remember to bring it into the shower before you get in.
My OSHA unapproved slip and slide flooring says otherwise.
Exactly, I buy a big pack of soap bars so when it's getting low I tell myself to open a new one when I get out of the shower, only to tell myself the next day until my soap bar runs out and I have to use my wife's body wash
When my soaking wet self has to do the shuffle from the shower to the soap under the sink and notice it is low I put one of the rmeaining bars in the sink so I can't miss it later as a reminder to pick up some more when I'm not soaking wet.
Putting stuff in my way is the best way to make sure future rlme does something about it.
Shopping at big box warehouse club stores has this solution built in, with the unfortunate downside of having to go in to those stores.
Also a good way to end up with 16 bottles because you can't remember if you're on the last bottle or just bought it. Especially when doing the wholesale store where I only buy it when it's on sale once or twice a year.
Also doesn't solve the issue of bringing a new bottle into the shower.
My trick to this is to leave the bottle on the tub/shower floor when I'm truly done with it. It increases the chances that I'll get rid of the bottle once I'm out of the shower. It does not necessarily guarantee that I'll remember to grab a new bar of soap or shower gel, but it interrupts my usual post-showdr flow of things enough to up the odds that I will
I open the shower door and immediately throw the empty bottle into the basin that way it will bother me at some point and take care of it
This was one several things I've seen throb this community that made me, eventually, do a test. Turns out I've got adhd, just went undiagnosed my whole life, was called hyper active, was told not eat certain foods with e numbers in the 80's, not drink coke (caffeine), I've a follow up doctors appointment, but being nearly 50 and only figuring this out now, is been a real mind fuck, positive feeling though
Yeah, I'm in my 40s and just now being tested. Based on the one test I did, it seems I probably have it. If I do it will explain a lot of my struggles, but thinking about all that lost time being untreated is gonna tear me up a bit. I always heard ADHD was one of those made up illnesses and all boys are hyper, and I believed that for a long time.
Make sure to take care of your mental health during and after the diagnosis. No matter how insignificant the diagnosis may seem it is very likely to have at least some impact sometimes lasting a few months
Not sure that I have ADHD, but when I remember to, I put the empty bottle on the floor outside of the shower. I still forget or can't deal with it when I get out sometimes, but it won't sit on the floor indefinitely like it will if left in the shower.
exactly. Squeeze the fucker out and yeet it right out. Some time the same day you'll walk into your bathroom, find a shampoo bottle on the floor, ask yourself "da heck?" and will remember that you gotta go buy some.
And then Wifey will throw the bottle and yell at me because I don't throw my junk, and then she will yell at me again because I use her shampoo.
The FOSS-only crowd might flame me for this, but I’d argue this type of scenario is a legit use-case for voice assistants, because “remind me to buy ________” is a fairly easy habit to get into and it’s a single step, fast enough to beat the attention bounce.
Edit: I meant no offense. Reworded to “FOSS-only.”
It absolutely would be a good thing for a voice assistant.
But most kickback against voice assistants isn't the lack of use case, it's all the other bullshit you have to accept alongside it.
If I could install a voice assistant that didn't require a constant internet connection and could work alongside other services, I'd use it.
I think there's one on F-droid? Starts with a D. I'm sorry I just woke up and can't find it.
Edit: its Dicio, oof tho it doesn't look offline but it does tick the rest of the boxes.
I've tried voice assistants, won't be viable until there's at least half a million autistic linux users who iron out all the kinks for a self hosted service.
We did that for years, until the products we bought switched APIs making us have to change shopping list apps a couple times, then shut off the feature altogether.
Any tech that requires an outside server eventually gets shut off and you spend my more time managing it than you saved in the long run.
Just toss the shampoo bottle on the floor to remind yourself.
And then I "remembered" to buy more but forgot to bring it into the bathroom and think I need to get more, and forgot I bought some, so I "remember" 2 more times when I'm getting groceries, and now have 3 bottles sitting on my kitchen counter now.
I just went to put one in the shower and left the other 2 on the bathroom counter. So I'm good for a while.
Have I ADHD? I thought I was just stupid ^^.
Despite the way it’s portrayed in the media, ADHD is underdiagnosed in some groups (women and anyone not white is less likely to be diagnosed in the US, for example). So, maybe. It’s worth talking to a psychiatrist about it if it’s regularly impacting your life.
It can be difficult to figure out on your own whether or not your symptoms are ADHD, because everyone has moments that could count as ADHD symptoms. But for people without ADHD they only happen occasionally or rarely. To steal an analogy, everyone pees, but if you’re pissing 40 times a day it’s time to see a doctor.
That said, if you’re in the US now is a super shitty time to get diagnosed because there’s a terrible ADHD med shortage. My husband’s been without meds for about 2 months now.
I toss the empty bottle into the sink while still in the shower. That way I find it again later.
I buy multiple so you have multiple to squeeze the death out of.
I throw it on the bathroom floor over the curtain. Then i add it to my list on my phone after i dry off when i pick it up to throw it away.
quietly adds shampoo to the grocery list...
I try to throw the bottle to the bathroom entrance, and once I'm done in the way of the front door to make it a physical inconvenience to forget it (then hopefully goes on the shopping list)
Oh yeah I've been out for like 4 days, just keep adding water to it
I always have a spare ready, when I put it on my list once I'm down to just one.
How do I know my phone is waterproof enough to withstand the shower?
I ain't watching or filming porn, I'm ordering toiletries.
Fill the bottle up with water and you can get at least another week out of it
It doesn't even have to be hidden away, the thing you aren't remembering or even do occasionally remember to do could be in the middle of your living room.
Add water. Rinse and repeat. Literally.