Do you all get super thirsty, or am I an extra-special snowflake who just doesn't drink enough water in general and who is now feeling the compounding effects of more regularly focused work?
(This is a serious question; I know I don't drink enough water and I'm trying to work on that. The #ADHD meds seem to be exacerbating this because with the productivity comes long stretches of not getting up to grab a glass of water even though it's RIGHT THERE.)
What some people don’t seem to be able to understand is that for the ones with executive disfunction number of steps matters a lot.
I just put away all my dried laundry aside of duvet cover.
Why? Because for all the other things it’s easy one-step task: grab all the knickers and shove them into the drawer, get the home clothes and put it into home clothes cube box(that cubed Ikea shelf is such a helper for people like me, I just have a cube for every thing).
But the linen shelf is at the top of the bathroom closet, and it’s almost full. So I need a stepladder to be able to put the duvet cover there(I can try to shove it there without, I kinda reach the shelf itself, but in its current state the cover is likely to fall from there, and probably with some other things, so that would upset me which I am not ready to deal with now).
But the stepladder is now occupied by my winter shoes which were drying there before I put them away for summer.
But to put them away I need to get two big boxes from under my bed, empty one by putting everything that is there into the other one, put all the shoes there, put the boxes back under the bad, ensure all the boxes there are arranged in a way that is allowing my cat to play in that labyrinth, and probably clean up after that as I suppose there’s going to be a few dust bunnies.
Gosh, I got tired by just typing all that.
Going through all those steps may bot take too much time(if I don’t get distracted by something, including the urge to sort everything perfectly), but the very thought of going through all those steps just discourages me so much that I can’t find energy to start. “It’s just one duvet cover!” - they say. “It’s a shitton of steps!” - I answer.
Well, the cover is drying in a way that obscures a view from my bed which irritates me enough to maybe develop enough anger to put it away in the weekend.
I'm facing a garage re-organization and felt the same way yesterday. Too much mess, too many things. Can't we just burn it down a build a new garage?
Hubs bought some tool organizers and swept the floor, and now I'm fine. In a few minutes I'll go out and sort the tools and put them in neatly labeled organizers, then start arranging the shelves. Problem sorted.
@ScottSoCal@Drude@actuallyautistic organizers are life-savers for me. Well, sanity savers at least :) When there are easily accessible clearly categorized storage containers for every kind of thing, not only clearing the mess, but keeping the home organized is so much easier
Good news, the medication I started for my #Narcolepsy is helping a lot! I feel more awake and energized than I’ve felt in the past ten years! :) And I just like, have the energy to do tasks, which is really nice.
Bad news, my #ADHD is so much worse now lmao. I am getting distracted way more easily, and I’ve been really frustrating in serious conversations because of that. So I’m gonna try to figure out what to do about that, but hey, at least this is progress?
@christianp I was worried about this actually! But it seems like the effects of taking too much of this medication (as well as the side effects) don’t include being unable to concentrate, mostly just headaches and abdominal pain. So that actually inspires some confidence in me!
Fedifriends I need your help!
For an article, I need a quote from recognisable source about how you need to know your home before you travel. If one such exists. I have the Allende about seeing with new eyes and the Pratchett about not really having been anywhere till you've gone back home, but I need a beginning. Bonus points if relatable for neurodivergent peeps. Deadline today obvs #ADHD#WritersCoffeeClub#AmWriting#JournoRequest#Help
i should finally seek out #ADHD treatment (and diagnosis), but somehow people saying "there'll be a 3 year waiting time" really doesn't help me get motivated 😑…
I was reading an article about trying to do a daily schedule with an ADHD brain, and while reading that, I wondered what was in the sweetener I was pouring into my tea, and so launched a rabbit trail researching Truvia and erythritol… and five minutes later, I close the terminal I was wikipedia-ing on, only to find the same article I had started with staring at me.
I had completely forgotten what I was doing because…
For all those people out there who still claim that we are getting our kids high by giving them Adderall:
I took my dose at 6:30 AM , went back to sleep, just getting up now 10 minutes before nine.
#ADHD brains are chemically different. Normal brains, get high or focused or whatever. I become slightly more able to find the thing I set down three seconds ago.
@masukomi SAME. It doesn’t wake me up, it means I don’t have to go back to the kitchen five times before I actually bring my coffee to the living room like I wanted to instead of the five other things I did instead.
The hostility of governments towards tourists with ADHD who just want to take their medication is a true test of the effectiveness of that medication.
Within the EU, I must fill out a form with my pharmacist for them to file for each trip beyond Sverige’s border.
For my trip to Korea, I must download 2 Word docs from a website in Korean, submit a copy of my passport, flight information, notarized English translation of my Swedish prescription, and email it all 10 days before travel.
Given the decades of research, prescription, and millions of people using the medication, I think governments should stop treating people with ADHD like they are potential drug mules.
People buy enough alcohol in duty free stores at the airport to get shitfaced and that’s ok, but someone with a pill a day for the duration of their trip so their executive function works is a 🚩? Sure, Jan…
Update: Korea told me to “leave [my] narcotics at home” or “postpone [my] trip if cannot function without” because I submitted my application less than 10 work days in advance of my trip. There are 2 Korean holiday periods coming up I did not account for not being work days.
@kamikat yes, but for me this is somehow only for tasks I don't like or I don't want to do. As soon as I am doing / get to do something I am passionate about, I am only doing that and can't really be distracted... (Also I am still not sure if this is AD(H)D or just humanness or something completely different :neocat_googly_woozy: )