Nov 16, 2023
i've said it before but i'll say it again:
as an adhder, the hard part about the konmari method is not the "don't keep things that don't spark joy" bit, it's the "put things away when you're done with them" bit.
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i've said it before but i'll say it again:
as an adhder, the hard part about the konmari method is not the "don't keep things that don't spark joy" bit, it's the "put things away when you're done with them" bit.
Every time I wish I was in Starfleet I remember the existence of medical tricorders and how I would absolutely drop and lose a good dozen of those little hand scanner things and that it’s probably for the best that all I can drop and lose now is an ungodly number of pens
one of my biggest pet peeves that exists due to my adhd is the desire to do some general creative thing without any specific ideas to go with it.
like i've been watching sharky breath's lets play of rain world downpour and also i just played through chants of sennaar and together they make me go "i want to make a video game with lots of lore and world building and i wanna make a whole system of symbols/language to use in the background/on signs/as graffiti that the players can slowly learn to interpret over time or that the player community can figure out through observation!"
but i don't have an actual game concept. or even a world concept. or anything at all. just "i wanna make a game with background secret lore told through in-universe symbols/language" and NOTHING ELSE.
i mean sure theoretically i could combine it with previous video game ideas but those ideas aren't really compatible with "a world full of language you don't understand" as a concept, y'know.
i am hungry and i should eat a food.
i have food.
i even have food i want to eat and is microwaveable.
i just. can’t get myself to stand up off the couch and put it in the microwave.
so is the job application process deliberately designed to be horrible or is that just a side effect of me being too adhd to function?
the hardest part about being me in the situation i am currently in is that i know i need help, but getting help requires a lot of steps, so i apparently need help to get the help, and then i need help to get the help to get the help, and it becomes this neverending cycle of needing help to get help, so instead i have no help and just burnout.
I find it very difficult to balance the KonMari principles of "put things away when you are done with them" and "group like things together" with my ADHD object impermanence and difficulty transitioning between tasks.
I often feel as though my tasks are never *really* done, or I want to put things in a place in easy reach of where I am already sitting, instead of getting up and going to the closet or bookcase to put things away. This usually means that stuff kind of piles up around my couch.
I've seen other ADHDers advocate storing items where you use them, but I literally have SEVEN closets, I have so much storage space and it seems like a waste to leave it sitting empty... sigh.
unstoppable force of hungee, meet immovable object of executive dysfunction.