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You go to the stores to buy [item]
Short-term memory gets erased when passing through the magic entrance door
Can’t remember what you needed to buy
You buy everything you can think of, everything that will be needed at home
Finally arrive at home, tired and carrying a lot of stuff
Spouse: did you buy the [item]?
You: …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 used to randomly start driving home no matter where I was originally going.
Headed back to work after lunch? Get lost in thought and start driving home.
On my way to see my SO? Get lost in thought and start driving home.
Going to the Doctor? Get lost in thought and start driving home.
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”?
happy cake day!
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’m not who you asked, but I wrote PHP website years ago, that stores everything in an .ini file. It’s super simple, and has worked for us for over a decade with minimal updates.
Google Keep works well enough if you don’t mind using Google software.
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!
I didn’t even consider that, but it makes sense. Thanks for sharing though! I’m always curious to see what other people are using.
I’ve been using eTilbudsavis, because it has all the store magazines in it as well. I thought it was only a danish app, but it seems like Finland has an identical version called eTarjouslehdet. So I wonder how many countries it’s in.
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?”
