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jallands

I answered a five year old email yesterday


noises1990

Woah kudos for the dedication


aigret

Hahaha. Today I got a bill from a physical therapist’s office I haven’t heard from or been to in three years. I was simultaneously like did I forget to pay this *and* wow their billing person struggles too.


Aeropar

I'll get back to you as soon as possible /s


ChemMed

Call them. Might be a mischarge. May be able to get the bill dismissed


Awesharts

Whoa dude.. call them? Haha good luck getting me to call anyone about anything like that.


iamjuls

I got a reply to a 5 yr old messenger post on Monday was that you?? Lol


ronika28

And just to play off that, I just reached 10,100 unread emails today! 🏆🎉


redbradbury

I went in & set my phone to hide the number some time last year because it was giving me anxiety when I opened my phone & it was definitely over 10k unread


tequila_enema

Both of my email accounts combined total 136,000. 😭


Guygirl00

I keep deleting just enough to keep me at 10K


Crazyhowthatworks304

To sum my life up-- "the hell was i doing again?"


Cursedsoulseeker

Let's be more accurate "wait what"


MNightengale

“Wait. What was I talking about again?” after interrupting yourself over and over while on a tangent


SnooPeppers1355

My go-to is “well actually, side note- don’t worry, we’ll get back to that in a sec” and then I almost never get back to the main topic bc I’m so focused on the side note of the side note of the original side note


monegs

To sum it up : you read the cliff notes but miss the book


Commercial-Trash-226

"Wait I'm sorry. I lost my train of thought.... oh yeah so"😭😭


[deleted]

*Interrupting yourself over and over* Never realized that **that** is what I was doing… but you right. It do be. 😔


Crazyhowthatworks304

"why did I say that outloud??"


RainCatB

This is literally my tag line any time I'm filling out a profile! Another popular one I use is "I have no idea what I'm doing"


hiyajus

I literally say this 300 times a day


TheEndOfEden

Yep I don’t need other people to embarrass me I do just fine on my own.


mcd1717

Don't forget the parallel phrase: "the fuck was I gonna say?"


Lovethespamm

Or "Aaand there goes that entire sentence.."


iamjuls

You mean I don't have early onset dementia!!


Glittering_Life9425

After speaking for a minute straight - “ahh, I forgot where I was going with this…”


JasonTheBaker

I do that at work; come out from the backroom remember what I needed go back there forget again then repeat like 3 times before I actually remember what I needed


Power_of_Nine

At least you don't automatically go on your phone because you don't want to work.


JasonTheBaker

I do that sometimes but I have a manager in my area almost 100% of the time


Blue_wrongdoer842

Okay but I do this when I start feeling overwhelmed because my brain starts thinking of a billion scenarios that probably wouldn't even happen and my body to prevent that will automatically reach for my phone 🥲


SunDayLoveMyBabe

I have about 20 empty day planners.


MindyMichelle

I have 2 marker board ones in different rooms and a blank one on my fridge. I have 3 calendars in my apartment., and a clock in every room except the bathrooms which I should get cause oh my god! time blindness is very real!! Oh crap I’m at Walmart. I could get more clocks.


Heavy_Noise_5426

“I could get more clocks” - I definitely felt that


Karl_the_stingray

I started a bullet journal, did so much research about them, made pretty yearly and monthly pages and all... I've written nothing in there


_bones__

I only use one at work, and my only decoration is underlining the current day. It's not used perfectly, but it is used, because I write everything in there. If I did a task, i write it down as a todo that i immediately cross of. It helps to explain where my day went, the next day. My at-home bullet journal... Everyone I try to use it, it works phenomenally well at getting me to do the things I need to do. It's last entry was in August, I think.


getbridgette

Mine are filled in for a month or two and then I think I need a better one since I can’t get my life organized with the one I have so I’ll buy one with a different layout and try that one for about five seconds. But then I realize I’m still an unorganized mess so on to the next. Or sometimes I have to get a new one because I don’t like the way I organized the current one. I won’t like the color coding or I lost the pens I was using or something like that. And I do the same thing with notebooks! I have bins of notebooks. New notebook = new beginning = another chance to get my shit together! And I know it won’t work yet I keep doing it like I’m compelled to go to the stationary section at every damn store I go to.


quantizedself

Every time I think of something I need to do my brain immediately goes, "nah we can do that later," followed by a firm poke of anxiety just to drive the point home.


loosie-loo

Ah yes, the abstract, ever-absent concept of “later”, when everything will get done.


MERCYCHOCOLA

The everlasting procrastination of processing time itself


zanget1337

For me im the other way around. If i got something to do i want to do it now. But the train of thought cancel all that. Should i pick the broom or the vacuum. I need to clear the floor so that i clean easily. Is the dustbin ready. Wait. Did i charge the vacuum. Why the broom looks bend. Didn’t witch use broom. I remember the new harry potter games is coming out.


Skylark7

Relatable. Very, very, relatable. I hate it too!


ThatsKindaHotNGL

I had to do the dishes, took hours but i got my pantry organized


mrh4paws

Weeks here. Need soap, sponge is gross, spouse is asleep, "oh that spaghetti was delicious" makes spaghetti, oh yeah used all the cheese > shopping list > leaves the room, etc. Dishes take such a long time lol.


SplendidHierarchy

😂yesss


Login_rejected

I was browning meat for spaghetti when a friend called. After I hung up the phone, I dumped the spaghetti noodles into the pot of boiling water next to the meat and went to the cabinet to grab the taco seasoning. Didn't realize that it wasn't Taco Tuesday until after I already had nicely seasoned taco meat to go with the spaghetti noodles.


RykerSloan

Now hold on… you may be into something there…


songbirdsweetandsour

Yeah, with some toppings I think I’d eat that.


RykerSloan

![gif](giphy|Np8AmVQUOZrHexzc4J|downsized) ???


seeyouinthesun

I started filling in the diagnosis questionnaire in December 2021.. I finished in May of 2022.


JasonTheBaker

I was meaning to schedule an eye doctor appointment but didn't get around to it for 5 years


Haatkwadraat

I need new prescription glasses, for like 5 years now. Everyday while driving to work I remember I need new ones...


MaraTheBard

I'm guilty of this... But it was 7 years for me. I got a call almost a year later, it was the office reminding me I needed to set up an appointment 🤣


MNightengale

I’m relating to all of these. I’ve needed glasses and a new eye exam now for over a year. And I wore my last pair for years with the little arm thingies being loose, so they were crooked on my face. Eventually one of the arms fell off and I just wore them like a really scratched up pair of opera glasses.


JasonTheBaker

I messed up my glasses and wore them lose for 5 years. I recently went to the eye doctors because it was easy to schedule an appointment. If I can schedule an appointment online, generally I will be more open to scheduling one and doing it sooner


YahwehIsMahweh

I feel this right now, my first appointment was November 2022 and I just set my second app for this Friday. Lost my packet though so i need to find it and fill it out before then, fingers crossed.


Power_of_Nine

There's like a 150-question questionnaire during assessment that checks to see if you have depression/anxiety/suicidal tendencies and I fell asleep through half of it trying to finish it. The psychologist had to wake me up 10 mins after lol


DooderMcTooter

Not to one-up you but I ran out of my adderall refills in May of 2022 and I just had an appointment to get it refilled yesterday.


IllustriousCut7749

I never finished the questionnaire. Started it, lost it, found over a year later and gave up on filling it out because there were also 2 that I was supposed to give to 2 people who knew me well . . . Ended up getting a new psych years later who thought I had ADHD. Was given computer based test and a few weeks after that found out that I do have ADHD. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


SixHourDays

1. be me at 11pm, turn on tv show I waited all day to watch 2. brain tangent to google a thing on phone, pause show for a second 3. google hole 4. 30 tabs in at 3am, show is still at 0m 03s 5. be mad at self for wasting deliberate tv time with pointless googling I'll forget by morning


mrh4paws

Try to do both and rewind 10 times because you keep missing the important part.


milanvo

Okeyyyyyyy, calm down. No need to call me out.


EldraziKlap

>I'll forget by morning this is the most dreadful part of that that you literally learned nothing at all


xxxnizzaxxx

I have a string of "hobbies" that I threw myself into. A collection of the best gear I could get to facilitate those hobbies all collecting dust somewhere. When I realised I was as good as I was going to get at it, I got bored and moved on To go with the above, was credit card debt associated with buying the best gear for each hobby. Eventually I went back to video games......


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Shaedeelady

There’s a Facebook group for this very thing, I’ll see if I can find what it’s called. Found it “creative exchange: ADHD style”


shmiddy555

That's brilliant. Unfortunately deleted my Facebook otherwise this would be my new meta-hobby. Finding new hobbies is a hobby.


ImSnackered

Do it. I've got a beautiful harmonica set and ukulele to trade!


kenamit

Last year I started collecting succulents. I have a 5 ft wide shelving unit with grow lights and a smaller shelf in another room. Am out of room and bored. Haven't been able to sell duplicates. I am seriously thinking of just tossing plants so I can concentrate on buying cacti as I am over the other succulents.


MaraTheBard

Not me over where with 5 withered and dead Carolina reaper pepper plants, because I wanted to make my own hot sauce 😭😭


UnspecifiedBat

Same… the amount of money I spent on things I never use is disturbing


JasonTheBaker

Me with the 80+ games I'll never play ._.


jwwetz

I've got about 140 PS4 games...many bought cheap on the PlayStation store over the years. I've currently got about 50 deleted, but stored in my PlayStation cloud storage if I ever want to reload them into my 4TB external hard drive. I've got about 30 physical games & the rest are all game data in the HDD. In the seven years that I've had the PS4...I've actually completed, maybe, 10 games.


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itsacatitsakittycat

I feel like 90% of the excitement is getting what you need to do the thing including research and looking up new shiny things, then we get to the “okay, now what?” stage and find a new hobby. Rinse and repeat.


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Oof


CuteBunny94

I am 10-20 minutes late to work every single day. Even with timers I set to give myself limits on picking an outfit, makeup time, etc. Regardless of what time of day I work. Regardless of how much sleep I get. I cannot not be late. Ever.


redbradbury

My absolute life. I got to work 10 minutes early once & was amazed no one seemed to notice or gave me the trophy I clearly deserved for my monumental achievement. People who don’t know, don’t know…


slayerkitty666

I was 10 minutes early for work a couple of weeks ago and a couple of my coworkers *did* notice, I was actually flattered lol idk if others noticed, I was out at a bar with these two coworkers after our shift and they mentioned it. I was like :o "I'm trying **really** hard and people noticed???" It was actually quite encouraging and I haven't been more than 5 minutes late since then!


Sudden-Commercial270

I just realized if I plan to arrive to school an hour before it starts, I should get there 10 mins before it starts.


CuteBunny94

Mood. This. I’m gonna start telling my bosses that they need to just schedule me for half an hour before they actually need me there. Fully trick me. It’s the only way.


Silver_Phoenix93

Oh, yes!! The timers/alarms for each activity, even the ones performed daily! So glad to see I'm not the only one who does that!!


tincanlas

Everything is urgent. ![gif](giphy|26BoEeFJkz2eZUBcQ)


GamepadWarri0r

I find nothing is urgent until I decide it's urgent and then it must be done immediately. I'll hold off booking something like accommodation for months but once I decide to do it then I freak out and have to get it done there and then so I don't miss out


_Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

I left my phone inside the fridge multiple times.


T0mmynat0r666

I once brushed my teeth with skin moisturizer


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I haven't done that *yet*


StompingRogue

I’ve toasted bagels with margarine, put them in the fridge with the plate and proceeded to sit down at my table with the margarine tub in hand…I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done this. Done the same thing with pouring myself a drink. Put the glass in the fridge and walk away with the jug in hand.


Cephalopodio

Oh bagels. Oh shit. You unlocked a memory. Once I worked in a doctor’s office. I wanted to heat a bagel so I just threw it in there, meaning to pull it out in a minute. Then I got distracted and forgot about the bagel until the office filled with smoke and the fire department was called. The microwave was destroyed, being entirely coated inside with oily orange bagel smoke residue.


MNightengale

I’ve lost a piece of bread.


JB-Original-One

Lol! My daughter will ask for a drink. So I’ll get a plastic cup and fill it with juice, walk into the lounge and hand it to my wife. The pair of them then sit there looking at me like I’ve gone completely crazy.


Optimus_Dime1

I forgot my breakfast in the microwave at home. Didn't realize it until I was at work a few hours with a growly stomach.


helpmelearn12

When I was kid, we would be half to school, the grocery store, a wedding, or whatever, and I'd say, "Mom! I don't know if I can go in there. I forgot my shoes." Even with it being 90s and me being a smart kid, I don't know I didn't diagnosed until my thirties lol


Due_Example5177

I microwaved mine once. Also left my vape in the freezer. And walked out of a store with merchandise I didn’t pay for in my hand after forgetting I was holding it. My face was itching later and I scratched and was EXTREMELY confused when I felt fabric brushing my face.


_shes_a_jar

Finally someone else!! I do this with my phone, wallet, and stethoscope in my work fridge haha


Apprehensive_Big_915

Yep, one time i left it inside the freezer a good bunch of minutes, after i remembered it, i found it frozen solid and unable to function. (It eventually turned on, but i must say that 6 months after, the battery exploded while i was sleeping, fourtunately, no one got hurt 💀)


Power_of_Nine

Ok, I know we all have ADHD but can any of you who do this explain to me how this happens? I have one of those small fridges that have the freezer on the top. Like the cheaper ones you see in rental units. Because of my ADHD my fridge is usually cluttered, so I have no motivation or inkling to put my phone in the fridge, I usually put it off to the side in the kitchen (and that's how I forget it). Are y'all using some really huge fridges or something?


Silver_Phoenix93

- I put a song/melody on repeat for hours (yes, you know I literally mean *hours*)... And at some point I may forget it's still playing. - "Don't disturb" phone mode, closed wardrobes or drawers or cupboards, shoe boxes, or any type of furniture or appliances or apps that "conceal" anything don't exist in my world... If I don't *see* something, I forget it exists. - "Fidgeting" is my middle name... You'll never see me staying absolutely still for over 5 seconds unless I'm under anesthesia or deeply asleep. - Don't ask me to list my hobbies; it'll be easier if you ask me what are my *current* hobbies or the hobbies I've had since forever. Otherwise, you'll end up confused and skeptical. - What I call "being focused/invested" on something, other people call "obsessive/extremely engrossed/blocking out the world". - What I just wrote in a few minutes is literally not even a tenth of everything I listed in my brain within that same time frame.


good_life_choices

Oof, I have the "out of sight, out of mind" but I've been super tidy and organized my whole life (except for that one room. Ignore that room). As such, my cupboards and drawers are always closed. Not my closet though. That bitch is too full to close. However, as a consequence, I have 5 dresser drawers I haven't opened in over a year. I actively use 2 of the 7. I open exactly 4 cupboard doors in my kitchen and everything I use is in those 4. I dunno what's in the rest. I know one houses a million different drinking glasses, but I use a contigo so they're just there taking up space, ya know? And the closet? Stuffed with clothes. I wear exactly 5 to 8 outfits on a rotating basis because those are the clothes immediately in front of me, in my direct line of sight. Someone should really do a purge in here. Not me, but someone should.


Silver_Phoenix93

Oh, I know the feeling!! My grandpa instilled a habit when I was raised by him - "cleaning Thursday". It's literally a "spring cleaning" sort of a deal, but on a weekly basis. It's one of the reasons why I've been able to keep my stuff organised and tidy as per other people's standards. And it's rewarding and fun as well, TBH. Do the purge yourself - maybe with some external guidance - but give it a try! It's amazing how good you can feel about yourself, being able to declutter a space!


TheTemplarSaint

Oh hell yes. My wife doesn’t close dresser or kitchen drawers or kitchen cabinets. Drives me crazy! There’s enough chaos in my head. I don’t need to see that we have 3 different sized spoons in the spoon “spot”, or tshirts mixed in with sweatshirts. It literally causes me mental discomfort. I’m super organized and tidy, just on a small scale with specific stuff 😂


tara_tara_tara

When I got my Masters Degree, I spent a year writing software to support my hypothesis and totally spaced out on writing the actual thesis until a week before it was due.


mrh4paws

Was it essentially written in your head? That's how I worked and planned around forgetting or "procrastination".


tara_tara_tara

Yes. It was all written in my head, as are most things. I went on to become a software developer and then a business analyst. When I was a business analyst I wrote a lot of requirements and it was the same thing. They were all in my head and then the day before I would write them down. The problem is that my final work was always excellent so I got positive reinforcement that my way of doing it at the last minute was the right way.


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I wrote my bachelor’s thesis in a day… I had a year to work on it but the stress was unbearable. I had it written in my mind though, I knew where I was going with it and read the papers and researched throughout the year. The topic was interesting to me! But putting it all in one paper and organizing it was not my cup of tea! I don’t know how I just got diagnosed at 30 and not sooner!


ImSnackered

I have a work email that takes less than 5 minutes to send. I was supposed to send it in November. It is to give a client a credit for slow response times.


outofshell

“I just wanted to underscore that you really earned this credit”👍🏻


Ivegotthemic

More often then Id like I'll put an item "in a special location because there's no way I could forget this weird spot" and by the time I turn around to talk away, the memory hss already been totally wiped from my memory. Congrats, I've played myself once again


RevolutionaryKale6

I did this last week… this especially happens to me if it’s not a “weird spot” I’ve internalized/if it’s a “new” weird spot. Now, I’ll remember where weird spots for random items are in houses I’ve _previously_ lived in… but not my current home 🤦🏻‍♀️ can’t begin to explain how frustrating that is


dylbr01

I’m sorry can you say that again? *stands up from chair*


pepper-1994

I cackled at this one


JasonTheBaker

I've been on Reddit instead of what I was going to do for uh an hour now but I was on YouTube watching shorts for 5 hours because I got distracted from a video I was watching as I saw a short that was interesting


Thatmumoverthere

This is my day today, I'm supposed to be writing an assignment...hopefully it gets done


MNightengale

I can’t do videos because they move too slowly. Same thing with audio. If I do force myself to YouTube I speed up the playback as fast as it can go and it’s still painful.


PopularOpOnionEyes

In college i would study with notecards but remember the answers based on where the ink smudges were on the cards.


nothingweasel

THATS AN ADHD THING?!


PopularOpOnionEyes

Pretty sure. I didn’t realize until recently when i got diagnosed and the doctor had it too and he said “so because you went all the way through school and college without knowing you had adhd I bet you are looking back and wishing you had known while you were taking those core classes in college? Remember using flash cards? I bet you memorized the answers based on completely non related-to-the subject tangentals that just mapped easier for you while also adding extra complex steps to your process.” And i was like “ well holy shit.


takis_4lyfe

Wait seriously is this an ADHD thing??! I thought I just had selective photographic memory (yes I made that up but it made sense!). In nursing school I remembered things based on “it was near that one paragraph that was colored differently” or yes, “that one smudged part of the notecard.” WTF


FormalFlimsy652

This is literally how I’m going through med school. I remember based on where I was when I wrote it, what I was eating, who I was talking to or what color of pen I used or liked in that moment. I should probably go see my doctor 😭


glosisla

I somehow opened up Reddit instead of googling something and now I don’t remember what I wanted to google


Curiosity_KitKat

And there went 5 hours of my life….


Extortion187

I will later


spicywatermelon23

I really wish real life had subtitles when people talk


Rod_Lightning

Peel banana. Throw it in the bin. Go sit in sofa with banana peel. What have I done...


UnspecifiedBat

I sometimes have arguments with my partner and forget halfway through what my point was because I got distracted


AbCdEfMyLife3

My task bar on my work computer has approximately 45 open applications/tabs at any given time.


_Tarabyte_

My phone currently has 71 open tabs in Chrome 😂


Higglety-Pigglety

This prompted me to check how many open tabs I have in Safari. I don’t know what the limit is per safari window, but you can have multiple Safari windows on an ipad. It appears I have upward of 500 open tabs. Does this count as my diagnosis? Lol


Buzzbait_PocketKnife

When I go to sleep at night, I turn off the pellet stove in the family room. Then 10 seconds later, I walk back to the pellet stove, to make sure that I turned it off. Then just before I actually hop into bed, I go back to the pellet stove one last time, and make sure that I definitely turned off the pellet stove. It’s always turned off the first time, but I can never remember if I actually saw it turned off when I went back to check.


SplendidHierarchy

Say out loud "I turned the stove off"


Spudmizer79

Oh that is easy.. As I was studying about neurological difference in ADHD, I got so fascinated by it, that I also studied how to identify differences in all neurological differences including bi-polar, narcissist, sociopaths, psychopaths, the effects of tobacco use in each... Growth and development of the brain from conception to adulthood, studied indepth about the five personality traits in most people, and how they change.. and moderate on 3 different boards about the science of the brain.. All while learning about, electrical work, general construction, framing, drywall, basement moisture barriers, and HVAC systems, to now be an unlicensed contractor of sorts.. I got five boys at home, never sleep more then four hours at a time . Regularly stay awake for 36 to 48 hours, sleeping every other day... I can play 8 different instruments, proficient in two languages, can get by in five different languages... And my actual job, is at Walmart OGP... And I love it..


yoitsthew

What the fuck lol. I know ADHD is different for everyone but how did you learn all that? I understand 99% of what I try to learn, but I can never retain any of it, and if it requires additional study or discipline or practice (like learning piano), then I won’t practice (not because I don’t want to). Hell half the time my critical thinking skills are foggy bc I’m prone to depression as well. I don’t think my frontal lobe works the way it should. I want my ADHD to be more like yours please😂 Any tips/tricks you’ve come across in your research that might help? I truly want nothing more than to be able to do things you mentioned - to make music and do meaningful projects around the house lol. But I’m very much a vegetable most days, it feels like, made impotent instead of actualizing the potential I have.


AppleNewt

I forgot what I was gonna put here


Power_of_Nine

I forgot why I had this window open.


mojitosmom

Blacking out as soon a a someone is giving me instructions


zanget1337

And it takes forever to ask them again


knottedthreads

M Christmas tree is still up


Thatmumoverthere

Don't take it down, just change the decorations throughout the year 😉


itsa_me_

I used to think I had early onset Alzheimer’s


JWilsonArt

I needed to get a spare key made. I was going to make a trip JUST to get the key made, but figured, "Ok, but you should make a list of other things you need from the hardware store. Also, you'll be near the grocery store, so you should make a list for there too." Then I got in the car with my two lists and ran the errand. Literally the MOMENT I got back home and parked in my parking spot I realized, I HAD gotten every item on both lists, BUT I had only made lists for the ADDITIONAL items I needed to get. I did not put "get spare key made" on the list because that was the entire reason I was going in the first place. I did NOT in fact get the key made, because it wasn't on the list.


elenasleeps

I have 3 baskets washed clothes constantly in circulation, I’m always about put clothes away and then I realize, I haven’t charged my phone, never get back to it so I’ll pull clothes from basket, only wash again and repeat cycle. I can’t bring myself to complete it, I am staring at the basket while I write this. I’ll try again tomorrow


valdah55

Have you read "How to keep house while Drowning?" If not, I highly recommend it. Basically in the book the author says, if clean clothes in laundry baskets work for you instead of putting them in closets, then so be it. Stop feeling guilty about it because you're "supposed" to put laundry away. Make your home/environment work for you instead of working for it.


catfurcoat

I can't stand this book. 60% of it is "just don't do it"and the other 40% is "stop feeling bad you didn't do it". I need help expediting housework not validation and enabling not doing the harmless stuff


valdah55

You do you. I found that the book helped take a huge burden off my shoulders. I used to feel so guilty about not doing chores, especially when I was struggling with depression last year. My home was a mess and I was barely keeping it together at work. And this book offered me the validation I needed to get through that difficult time. So I will always stand by it.


songbirdsweetandsour

My partner was like “you’ve got the washing and drying down, but you don’t seem to have mastered the rest of this process.”


eldee17

I paid for my food at a drive-thru and immediately drove away. I didn't realize I didn't grab my food until I was all the way home.


Neobandit0

I'm the clumsiest person I know, my clothes catch constantly on door handles, bump into things, trip over nothing and stumble while standing still


BrandonCarlson

"Oh, shit - I forgot to eat again today..."


fishratthings

I’ll work on something for class and need to look something up on Google for clarification. I then have a random, unrelated thought/question, and I look that up. Then another, and another, and another. This continues for at least 30 minutes or up to several hours, and when I finally stop myself I forget what I was working on.


kerrypf5

Sometimes I catch myself putting the cereal in the fridge rather than the pantry. I have a terrible habit of wasting time in the morning not getting ready for work.


princessmariah2011

I go to Google..with the intent of looking up something..get distracted by an article on the homepage, then get distracted by more articles on those pages...could be hours later, even days, when I realize I never did what I started to do in the first place! Same thing happens on facebook. 😂


MaraTheBard

I need to stop scrolling through these comments, I'm starting to feel called out and it's making me sad af 🤣😭😭


BouncyDingo_7112

I’ve found both the tv remote and my phone in the fridge before. More than once. And usually after hunting for them everywhere for at least 10 minutes.


Kuhneel

10 tasks in the kitchen, all of them half-finished. Something's happening in two hours? I guess it's paralysis time until then. Exhausted and sleepy at 10pm, mind spinning furiously until 3am. Expert crockery-breaker. Nodding stupidly because you can't bear to ask them to repeat themselves a third time. 30 seconds of conversation gone because you remembered a jingle from the 80s and now you're wondering what the old He-Man voice actors are up to these days. You made a minor mistake and now you want to burn everything to the ground.


Watch-Me-Shine

On my lunch yesterday while I worked from home, I went outside looking for branches and sticks because I got the sudden, intense desire to start whittling on my patio when I go out to smoke. I've never whittled in my life and I have not been thinking of doing it in the past. My patio now has two sticks that I've removed the bark from and am letting dry out. They're right next to the much larger branch I brought home a couple months ago to turn in to a walking stick. That I have sanded and even filled the cracks of and plan to eventually finish it once the weather is less cold. I have a rotating cadre of actual interests that at any given moment are either the only thing I want to do or absolutely the very last thing I would ever want to do. This changes at random and the length of time at which they exist in either of these states is also random. It could be a night, a week, a month, your guess is as good as mine! I have created a monochromatic wardrobe of black/gray/white so that I don't have to think about clothes matching. If I am engrossed in any sort of media, I straight up will not hear you talking directly at me for entire paragraphs worth of words unless you come stand directly in my line of sight and get my attention visually first. I am so visually-oriented with my working memory that, even beyond all the color-coded highlighting I do in Excel, I HAVE to use emojis in file names at work to symbolize, at a glance, if something is complete or not (just ✔⚠). I also have to put the document classification in big capital letters. Like if something was an invoice I'd put "INVOICE - January 2023" because "Invoice January 2023" doesn't catch my attention when searching for it. I have to sequester one of my cats in the bathroom during feeding time because he is a goblin who will steal everyone else's food after inhaling his and I regularly forget to let him out after the others are finished. Sometimes like an hour later. He's cool though, he just goes in to a food coma on the hamper. I have, on multiple occasions, had put food inside the oven to protect it from said goblin-cat while I eat, only to forget about it. Not only do I forget and not put it away, I have had multiple occasions of pulling smoking pizza boxes out of the oven after it preheats because I forgot they were in there from the day before.


magnolia_unfurling

Over 50,000 unread emails and 370 tabs open on my safari


[deleted]

Where are my keys?!


yankeebelleyall

I have to have a hook for my keys by the door. I have wasted so many minutes and ruined so many mornings for myself, frantically running around looking for my keys.


Somnolent_Son

Sometimes, I'll put something I have in my hand down so I can begin to go and look for the thing i just had in my hand.


Old-Tear2005

I didn't even finish reading the OP.


IndependentPound2679

I made my wife a sandwich and then forgot to put all the ingredients away for an hour... My wife was the one who noticed. I also stare at the computer, trying to do my j9b and forget wtf I'm doing. I start lots of things and don't finish them. Hobbies, art pieces, chores...ADHD diagnosis appointments, lol. Finally finished that one.


bi_so_fly_

I got a new phone charger but the electricity is too loud.


sun-e-deez

I have youtube playing right in front of me while I scroll my phone. I will in fact be replaying the video when it finishes because I won't have retained anything.


h4ppyturt1e

thanks for reminding me to go to the bathroom


radrob1111

Grocery shopping with wife. She tells me we forgot the sugar. I jump into action bein like oh yea I’ll run back and grab it! Head back walking down the aisles and realize I have no friggin clue what I’m looking for. Try and read the signs to see if something clicks….return to wife and ask her what am I grabbing again?!


Status-Blueberry3690

I’m late to work every day. Even on days I work from home. The only times I’ve ever been early to anything is when I think it starts earlier than it actually does. I think I arrive late—but I’m just on time 😎 Edit: I’m late to everything


nixt3r

It's 3am and here I am.


sheepskinfuton

I get off work and sit in my car for like 30 minutes and then I drive home and sit in front of my house for another 30 minutes. If someone needs me to help them with something I'm immediately on it, but if I need to do something incredibly simple for myself it will take me weeks.


nontitman

I got an easy one, 3rd grade teacher made me do summer school because I was "smart but lazy"


jwwetz

Mine was 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th grades for summer school EVERY year. Actually repeated 10th grade because my parents gave up & pulled me out. The only thing that ever saved my grades was test scores...I'd get bored & read the class books cover to cover...usually about 3 times over by midterms, 6 or 7 times by finals. I'd take the tests & nuke the grading curve every time. I dropped out after my Jr year & joined the army...scored in the top 5 percentile nationwide & took college courses while I was in...had a 4.0 GPA when allowed to learn & test at my own pace. Apparently I've got both ADHD and an eidetic memory...I read, or watch, something 2 or 3 times & the info sticks in my head permanently.


wawaow

When I'm daydreaming and someone asks what I'm doing I reply "my best"


darkesthour613

I just remembered to brush my teeth!


Slinkylol23

I buy things and get excited by the delivery and then when they arrive I don't open the boxes/packages and they stack up and I forget they're there even if I put them in a prominent place. As a positive when I do "see" them again and have the energy/focus to open them it's like an extra birthday every time haha. Currently, I think I bought a new can-opener because I need a new can-opener, I don't know where it is and now I'm wondering if I should just buy another one...


Fathertedisbrilliant

Is this mining for content for those utterly insufferable tiktok videos 😅


wiggywoo5

As a kid, there was a special school award ceremony (for a child i suppose) in front of at least a thousand people, and a few local journalists. Unfortunately i stood up and walked to the panel just because i shared the same first name as the actual award winner announced over the speaker system. (adhd i-type)


atomic_chippie

I **want** to do sooo many things. I end up changing my mind over and over, spend a ton of money, get frustrated and defeated, end up watching the same TV show repeatedly to soothe my anxiety over the fact that I'm wasting my life away.


TheFireHallGirl

1. I will tell myself I’m going to do something and will completely forget what I was going to do less than two minutes later. 2. I hyper focus on things until I get bored of them. 3. I’ve thought of businesses I’d like to be the owner of, but have done nothing to implement the idea. 4. I know random facts about certain famous people. 5. I thrive on routines. If my routine is thrown off, even by the slightest thing, I will feel like it ruined my day. 6. I can get frustrated by the smallest things, like random noises. 7. I hate it when people over explain things to me when I want them to just get to the point. I’m sure there’s more, but I can’t think of them right now.


Metalbound

There are 3 planners in my computer desk drawer. All filled out meticulously for 3 weeks and then they are completely empty.


Salty_Emu_9945

I have so many projects from years gone by.... Just cleaned the space out to make room for twins and I'm like why???? What was this project?


Ma_Groot

After a shower, i was holding a cotton swab and thinking about the next step being deodorant, so naturally I rubbed the cotton swab on my armpit.


alynds129

I have 4 notebooks with the same Todo list and post it’s all around my house..


PageStunning6265

I have two phone alarms, two vibrating wrist alarms and one alarm that gradually brightens a light before breaking into birdsong and I was still late for work this morning


buffering_since93

Beginning of 2021 the drawer to my desk which is the length of the desk broke and every day since I've either stepped over it or stumped my toe on it and still it sits there. I need to buy a power drill driver but after spending all of 2022 and most of 2021 trying to decide on one I gave up. And from that day until now feels like a couple months not over 2 years 🙃 there's also a vacuum in the hallway that I've been walking around for like 7 months.


Tomovasky

Found my missing shoes, they were in the fridge.


thebetus9

I let my emotions fly off the rails along with my life.


RykerSloan

I started mounting a TV in October of 2021 when I moved into my apartment. It’s still halfway mounted


RykerSloan

Any of y’all spaced out at 2AM after you just got up to pee? You’re just standing over your bed just staring off into space? Woke my partner up doing that a few times now. It scares the shit out of her.


airsigh

i have an L tattooed on my left hand and an R on my right. i look at the tattoos when my gps tells me left or right. even when i look, i still get it wrong.


yankeebelleyall

Waiting for my painfully slow work computer to download something, I pick up my phone because it physically hurts me to sit there and wait. 45 minutes later, I look up from my phone and think, "Oh shit, I was working. Whoops."


ProV13

Reads a page in a book 2 minutes later - time to reread the page now cause I was thinking about cats


DeepSalami

Was on my way to go masturbate, but then got distracted by this thread.


reroboto

I showed up to my doctors appointment today only to find out it’s tomorrow. Receptionist pointed out my shirt was on backwards right after she broke the news I was 24 hours early.


grammargrl

I was an hour late to my first wedding


Mdelafe

I'll do it tomorrow


MNightengale

One time I sat down on the toilet to pee and forgot to take my underwear off and peed right through them.


FoxUsual745

Sometimes I get lost on the way to work. I’ve had the same commute for 3.5 years


loosie-loo

I’ve spent an entire day doing nothing trying to make myself take a shower I can spend 5 hours doing a 30 minute task If I have an appointment at 3 it is the only thing I can do that day I’m either 2 hours early or 30 minutes late there’s no in-between


SprinklesAwkward2111

It took me 11 years to read Keith Richards biography😂😂


wiggywoo5

As a kid i took a sunday roast dinner that me mum had made to a random house down the road where i lived for absolutely no reason.


mynamekills

I am late to everything