Seriously my adhd management system is basically "putting shit where I'll trip over it" and then waiting to get sick of still deliberately stepping over/around the inconveniently placed item.

it's this, or recognizing that you don't actually need shampoo and can just buy a life supply of soap bars all at once and use that for washing every part of your body.

i've come to recognize that a big part of why i find minimalism so nice is because it brings the amount of things i need to remember down to something vaguely manageable.

Bold of you to assume I'll remember to check my shopping list.

But you still have to remember to bring it into the shower before you get in.

Exactly, I buy a big pack of soap bars so when it's getting low I tell myself to open a new one when I get out of the shower, only to tell myself the next day until my soap bar runs out and I have to use my wife's body wash

Shopping at big box warehouse club stores has this solution built in, with the unfortunate downside of having to go in to those stores.

I open the shower door and immediately throw the empty bottle into the basin that way it will bother me at some point and take care of it

Yeah, I'm in my 40s and just now being tested. Based on the one test I did, it seems I probably have it. If I do it will explain a lot of my struggles, but thinking about all that lost time being untreated is gonna tear me up a bit. I always heard ADHD was one of those made up illnesses and all boys are hyper, and I believed that for a long time.

exactly. Squeeze the fucker out and yeet it right out. Some time the same day you'll walk into your bathroom, find a shampoo bottle on the floor, ask yourself "da heck?" and will remember that you gotta go buy some.

It absolutely would be a good thing for a voice assistant.

But most kickback against voice assistants isn't the lack of use case, it's all the other bullshit you have to accept alongside it.

If I could install a voice assistant that didn't require a constant internet connection and could work alongside other services, I'd use it.

I've tried voice assistants, won't be viable until there's at least half a million autistic linux users who iron out all the kinks for a self hosted service.

We did that for years, until the products we bought switched APIs making us have to change shopping list apps a couple times, then shut off the feature altogether.

Any tech that requires an outside server eventually gets shut off and you spend my more time managing it than you saved in the long run.

Just toss the shampoo bottle on the floor to remind yourself.

Why not both? :P

Despite the way it’s portrayed in the media, ADHD is underdiagnosed in some groups (women and anyone not white is less likely to be diagnosed in the US, for example). So, maybe. It’s worth talking to a psychiatrist about it if it’s regularly impacting your life.

It can be difficult to figure out on your own whether or not your symptoms are ADHD, because everyone has moments that could count as ADHD symptoms. But for people without ADHD they only happen occasionally or rarely. To steal an analogy, everyone pees, but if you’re pissing 40 times a day it’s time to see a doctor.

That said, if you’re in the US now is a super shitty time to get diagnosed because there’s a terrible ADHD med shortage. My husband’s been without meds for about 2 months now.

This is my universal system. It doesn’t even need to directly correlate with the reminder, since most of the time I just need to be reminded that I need to remember something.

For example, I’ll leave a chair in the middle of the kitchen so I remember to do something when I get home. The second I see it I remember whatever it is I need to do. I’ll leave it there until it annoys me into doing what it was I needed to do. Very effective for my ADD/OCD combo.

Two is one, one is none.