I doodle incessantly. Like whole pages that are 20% notes, 80% doodles. I had a teacher in middle school who got mad because it seemed like I was constantly distracted (true) and had me stop, but then discovered it was 10x worse if I was not doing something with my hands. Meanwhile my most recent boss looked over at my pad during our first in-person meeting and said, “ah, so you have ADHD too?”
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Mid-sentence brain farts, trying to finish your sentences, extreme procrastination, projects started but not done, a thousand hobbies.
That's just the easy to see ones.
Lately I've been finding my self go on rambles and mid way I just start stuttering followed by me just giving up lol
Forgetting to take my meds?
Shit like that, they say it takes 21 days to form a habit or whatever, I take a daily med for my allergies and I still have to consciously think about it, also about brushing teeth.
Getting lost while talking to someone because my mind left the chat.
Walking back and forth to do something and forgetting what I was going to do and then switching to a new task only to find out I had to do the first thing before I could do the second thing and then maybe repeating that.
Why is there X item, food or otherwise, in the freezer when it should be in the fridge or in a completely different room? How I learned to defrost potatoes.
Looking at phone while watching a movie because I can't remember the name of the movie that same actor was in 10 years ago. Surprise, we are watching that same movie.
Where are the groceries? Damn it, these tacos made me forget to take them out of the car. I presently want tacos.
I have no idea how long I have been preheating the oven, at least this time there wasn't food in it. pRoGrEsS.
Oof the walking back and forth thing.
I think on my job i have subconsciously trained myself to not notice who noticed i just got up, sat down, got up again. Reached my hand to something. Did not grab it. Turned back to my desk but while standing, sat down again, get back up. Walked 3 steps the other way. Walked 2 steps back to grab something from desk. Walk away fully Come back to grab the first thing. Disappears for 30 minutes to do something that actually only takes 5.
No all the people must be just as oblivious as i am and could never notice shit like this… imposter syndrome is real.
Complete and utter inability to start anything outside of a last minute panic.
Getting lost mid-sentence because my train of thought was taking another rail and forgot to tell my tongue, and then remembering neither what I was talking about nor what I was thinking about.
Forgetting everything, everywhere, at all times.
Inability to discern details in a space. Spent 15 minutes once desperately looking for my cane. Mother asked me what I was doing, I said searching for my cane. She pointed out it was on the chair, in plain sight. I couldn't have helped but look directly at it several times during that search, but my mind passed it over as a detail not worth registering.
Executive dysfunction. Nothing ever got done. Most things didn't even get started.