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Them: You should make sure everything has a fixed place and is visible so your ADHD brain doesn't lose track of important items!
Me: I own a cat, motherfuckers.
Me: I own a cat, motherfuckers.
My fixed place for important items will include, at any given point of the day:
- the living room floor
- the kitchen floor
- behind my desk on the floor
- behind the bookcase on the floor
- under the bed on the floor
- under the sofa (also, sing it with me! on the floor)
- the living room floor
- the kitchen floor
- behind my desk on the floor
- behind the bookcase on the floor
- under the bed on the floor
- under the sofa (also, sing it with me! on the floor)
So my ADHD coping strategy for finding important shit starts with:
- Try to remember if there was a suspicious skittering noise behind me recently
- If yes, check the floor.
- If no, check the floor anyway.
- Try to remember if there was a suspicious skittering noise behind me recently
- If yes, check the floor.
- If no, check the floor anyway.
One reason a morning routine is hard is because it always has to include both "I'll put this here so I won't forget (and then promptly forgetting)" and "has my cat hockeyed shit under the sofa again during the night".
This thread brought to you by the fact that I can't find my deodorant. It has a place. It lives on the desk or
...
you guessed it!
The floor.
...
you guessed it!
The floor.
