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.
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
Complete and utter inability to start anything outside of a last minute panic.
I've currently stayed up all night to play my favorite new game because an old friend is coming over to give me a tattoo this afternoon and I didn't want to go to bed and not get to play the game. So I'm just going to skip sleep. Yet I've spent like 3 hours out of 12 playing it and the rest of the time smoking and looking at my phone. To be fair Civ 7 is complex and extremely poorly documented so I'm looking a lot of things up.
I'm still going to clean house in a panic the hour before he gets here...
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.
Hey you manage to post top quality stuff on Lemmy. What motivates you to do that? Maybe you can gamify other things in life to be like that?
I'm in no position to give advice. See my other reply in this thread.
And yeah I don't know what I'd do without my wife. I can spend ten minutes looking for something and I give up and ask her to find it. Literally seconds later she's showing me or putting the thing in my hand.
It makes me miss living in hotels traveling for work. I've got tools perfectly organized, backpack for network and PC gear, and a duffel bag for everything personal. If it's that simple I can function.
I'm actually doing much better since I got medicated, I was just pointing out things that other people had always noticed about me that, in retrospect, were symptoms of ADHD. Thank you for the concern, though!
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?”
That's so wholesome. I've just told everyone I've ever worked for "I have to write and doodle to process information", and after a few well timed comments they accepted it. I've been late because I had to grab a notepad, I've been questioned why I was taking notes when they were already writing down the tasks for everyone... Eventually they just all accepted I doodle and take incomprehensible notes during meetings
If I had a boss who just recognized why I do all that, I'd instantly feel more loyal to them. I mean, assuming they're a good boss otherwise
Start talking about something and get so lost on tangents trying to explain all the precursory information they need to understand that original thing I haven’t explained yet that I’m now debating something entirely unrelated and have forgotten the original point I’m trying to make.
Bonus points if I end up losing my train of thought during one of the tangents and now don’t even know what I said two seconds ago and have still forgotten the original point I was trying to make.
Also not being able to do simple things I plan/need to do, like laundry or writing an email, but then spend 4hrs straight building something incredibly complex from scratch just to test a random theory I had that has no other usefulness.
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.
Read something and not registering what it said. Only realizing it after a half page or more. Then going back, reading it again, only to still not have a clue what it says. Then trying to read it aloud, because surely that will keep my mind on task enough to register it. But no. My mind decided that some tangent was way more entertaining.
I usually just give up at that point. I can't wrangle my mind back and have it be interested at that moment.
Over sharing and making random noises (stimming maybe?). If someone is telling me something I’ll just repeat a random word from their sentence back to them 😂. Or I’ll just make random noises like dum dum dum for no reason.
People also don’t notice stuff that I do. Like we watching football and I’ll be like huh what does that logo represent on the socks. Everybody else how did you even notice that? Me well I don’t really like football so I’m keeping it fun by reading everything I can see.
Being mentally paralyzed and unable to execute on anything other than doom scrolling for 4 years.
A Very Simple one- I'm constantly interrupting people during conversations. I do it because I want to get out a thought before I get distracted. I've improved over the years, but I still do it, often.
The leg shakes, or beat the devils tattoo
Wife has started to expect oversharing, she corrects me when it's just us two, and then I am not sharing enough. When going into social situations, she reminds me of thinking about what is okay to share before I share.
I need to fidget when I have to sit and listen to things. It can seam like I don't care about the topic, but if I am using all my focus on not fidgeting I sometimes can't focus on what the other person is saying.
