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Meme Mondays:

On March 9, 2020 February 1, 2020 Filed under Meme Mondays No Comments

Not just ADHD, but goes for most folks with EDF!

Text post from tumblr user hippity-hoppity-brigade that reads: ADHD Gothic
You have instructions written down. You don’t need them, but you check them anyway. Somehow they’re different from what you remember. Have they changed since you tucked the paper in your pocket?

You realize that you’ve lost your train of thought. You can’t remember what you were thinking before. There is only your present thought, now a loop of panic at your lost memory.

You stop in the middle of a room. Why are you here? Which room did you come from? You leave the room and remember what you were going to do. You walk back into the room. Why are you here?

You bring up an inside joke with a friend. They look at you blankly. They do not remember this joke. But you were there when I made it, you argue. They were not. They are not the friend you are thinking of. You realize it was your other friend, from work instead of high school, with blond hair instead of brown, tall instead of short. You do not know how these two friends are so similar in your mind.

You refer to every experience as happening “the other day.” Was it three years ago or yesterday? You try to remember context clues. Time is not real.

Someone asks you for an important piece of information. You have not thought about it since you saved it on your computer, labelled very clearly. You search through your files. It is not there. You find it days later by accident, labelled with a cryptic set of codes. You don’t know why you would label it this way. No one else uses this computer but you.

You are running late. You are always running late.

You have lost something. You check everywhere. You check everywhere again. Someone tells you to think of when you last had it. You don’t tell them that is the problem.

You reach the end of the page. You can’t remember what you just read. — Source

Meme Monday: Working Memory Storage

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Source

By Dani Donovan (Facebook | Twitter | Patreon)

Meme Mondays: Time Management

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Many EDF folks struggle with impaired time managment, not only ADHDers!

Meme Monday: First Priorities

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Accurate.

horsehamartias on tumblr

(PS: Lots of people with EDF struggle with prioritization, not only ADHDers!)

Meme Monday: EDF Gothic

On February 10, 2020 February 1, 2020 Filed under Meme Mondays No Comments

Who can relate?

Text reads: Executive dysfunction gothic

- You have to shower. You cannot shower. You are standing right in front of the shower. You want to shower. You cannot shower.

- The meeting begins. “Did everyone see the email?” There is a chorus of nodding heads. You nod, too. You think you may possibly have checked an email account before, on one single occasion, at some unknown time, probably in a past life.

- You are hungry. You have been hungry for three days now. The hunger has not spontaneously resolved itself. How inconvenient, you think. How rude.

- You depend on your planner/calendar. You loathe your planner/calendar. You can’t function without it. You live in constant fear of it. It’s an unhealthy relationship. You think you both should start seeing other people.

- There is a pile on your floor. It is a treasure trove, the Room of Requirement. It has everything. You look for something specific. It has nothing. There was never any pile.

- There’s been a change of plans, they say. You don’t understand. They repeat: “there’s been a change of plans.” You don’t understand. The mere suggestion causes a buzzing in your head that drowns out everything else. You don’t understand.

- You’re in class and you don’t understand the lecture. You look back at your past notes. You look at a calendar. You have not been to class in two weeks. You have no memory of this supposed time. Where did it go? Why did it leave?

- “Organizational tips for success: Keep a planner! Write it down! Stick to a schedule! Make a list!” You are torn between deranged laughter and ugly crying. You choose both. — luna-and-mars on tumblr