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I can always feel the memory of what I came there for slipping away the second I enter.
For real, the worst part is that I always remember the number of things I wanted to buy, and then am wandering, trying to figure out what are the remaining 3 out of 4 things I planned to get
I have that conversation with my wife but in reverse where I say “hold up, let me make a list” and she’s like “no need, it’s just a few things, you can remember”. This is when I remind her, yet again, that my ADHD is so severe that I have to set the navigation everytime I drive anywhere in order to make sure I actually go to where I originally intended to.
I Officially™ don’t have ADHD and yet every time I see someone with ADHD describe an ADHD experience I think “that’s me, I do that”
I’m old enough that my official diagnosis is “adult ADD”. Back in my day, we couldn’t afford no fancy H.
Wasn’t it great that, if you got diagnosed as a child, you would need to get re-diagnosed as an adult because you might have “grown out of it”?
I mean, these are issues for neurotypicals as well, ADHD amplifies them but it’s like, essential human experience pretty much
My partner and I share an online list - we can update it at any time and you automatically have it with you when you go into the store. Quality of like improvements!
What app or website do you use? If you don’t mind sharing.
I didn’t want the post to become an unpaid add, but we use Todoist and I think it works quite seamlessly. The free version is perfectly adequate for this kinds of uses!
last week my boss asked her husband to get one specific thing when he went to the store. even took a picture of it (an empty bottle of what she needed more of) with his phone.
yesterday i saw her at the store–exchanging what he brought home for what she needed.
Meanwhile, me at the store “I ahve my list! It says cereals”
10 seconds later, in cereal aisle: “Why am I here for again?”
