Saturday I had a plans, errands and cleanings. I’m proud to say I did it ! Sure it’s just errands and cleaning, but doing it, and finishing it, felt so good. Until my self deprecation tried to down play. But still proud of myself.

I will happily walk a mile and a half for an errand; but if I need something I left on another floor of my house? “Nah, I’ll do it later.”

There is no T in Swiffer. It’s SWIFFER!

I’ll go to get the swifter, but then I’ll see there is a creaky door and I’ll go to get some wd40 instead but then I’ll find a laundry pile that I need to move and I really don’t want to deal with that so I’ll email somebody.

Why was “adhd” censored from the original image?

Don’t even have ADHD (I don’t think), but this happens all the time with house projects. A seemingly trivial task that I think will only take less than an hour suddenly takes up my entire day as one small part of the thing suddenly goes awry and I get half a dozen smaller tasks just to account for fixing that small thing that tripped up the original task. By the time I finally get back to the original “trivial” task, my day is already fucked.

“Oh shit, stripped a screw and this is about to fall apart, I’ll need to go to the store to get a new part for this. Should be pretty standard, I’ll probably find the part right away.” Get to the store. “Oh shit, there’s like 5 different standards for this thing and none of these exactly match the original thing I had, but I didn’t bring the part, so I can’t even compare. This looks closest to it though, I’ll just grab this, it should work.” Get back home. “Goddamnit, it’s not the right part, it’s off by like 1/2 an inch, shit, I need to take this back and get a different one.” Back to the store. “Ok, this seems to be the right thing, but there’s some extra mounting that’s needed, but what I already have at home should work.” Get back home. “GODDAMNIT.”

swifter

This sub is weird. There’s so many things that are posted here that are just normal things that people do. People lose motivation. People get distracted. People get derailed during conversations or activities. Yet, I feel like every single one of these things are co-opted by posters as “this is such a silly adhd thing that I do”. No…it’s fucking not. Your adhd may make it worse, but literally everyone does this shit. I’m not ragging on people with adhd, my issue is entirely with the quality of the posts here. It makes it look like normal shit that people do sometimes, or even something’s that you do when your depressed gets brushed under this “adhd” catch-all. It’s so frustrating to read posts from this sub sometimes.

Edit: sorry for being “vulgar”. Mods are cool, and took steps to address concerns. +1 to them.