Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list."
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 week agoIt is either that or you go buy shampoo, then put it somewhere in the house where you forget all about it and go buy another and forget all about that one too and then you run out of shampoo and are like “oh fuck, I need to buy shampoo” and you manage to remember and come home with a third bottle and then the others start popping up in weird places over the following days.
I am at the end of one such misadventure. I am almost finished with bottle number two and bottle number three disappeared from the kitchen for weeks and reappeared recently in my couch and I put it in the bedroom so I am reminded of it’s existence everyday now. Eventually it will find its way to the bathroom.
Everytime I’m at the store and I pass the shampoo aisle I have to remind myself that Mr couch shampoo is still very much full and very much on its way to the bathroom.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
why not put them all together next to each other, you know, in the bathroom, where you bathe?
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 week ago
That would make sense, wouldn’t it?
That just isn’t how my brain works. If I put a thing down, unless I am super hyped about it or it is urgent, I will forget about it. If I become aware of it again and it still isn’t urgent, I might pick it up with the intention to put it in the proper place but get distracted and put it in a new temporary place because something else more urgent is going on. I will occasionally remember that it is in a specific place and I’ll be like “oh I should move it to the right place/fix it/tidy up/other” and I will forget about it again because something else is happening or I am at work or somewhere, where I can’t do anything about it right now.
My spouse and I have some strong suspicions that I have undiagnosed ADHD, but in the milder end. It is what it is. All you can do is do the best you can and try and find way to improve. The problem is that no matter how much I work on these things, I will never get truly better. I can get better in one area and then crash and burn in another so I kinda pick which area I want to work on and accept that I will be a train wreck in another.
slampisko@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hey, weird suggestion, but maybe look into giftedness as a cause instead of ADHD.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Genuine question: what makes you think I should look into that instead of ADHD?
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
i feel that.
good luck
Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Thank you thank you x) used to get really mad at myself for being an idiot with most thing but now I’m just kinda owning it. My spouse is super chill with my weirdness, so at least nobody is affected negatively by it. He mostly laughs when he discovers my newest dumb thing. Most recently he discovered where the plastic bag clippies had disappeared to.
Image These things!
I had accidentally and over time collected all of them in one corner of the apartment like a squirrel stashing nuts for winter. He thought it was very funny.