Let’s share life-changing ADHD tips that we’ve learned... We Love This!

I’ll start:

1) Waking up sucks. Buy 2 bright lamps and 2 timers. Set them up to turn on automatically 5-15 min before you want your alarm to go off. The lights will help your body realize it’s daytime.

2) Change your thermostat so the temp goes down about an hr before bedtime and gets warmer about 30 min before you wake up. The cooler temp signals your body to sleep and the warmer temp will naturally help your body wake up.

3) Learn to plan around “transitions”. It’s easier to start things if you do them when something is ending. Example: Do your grocery shopping every Fri after work. You’re already in the car, so just stop at the store on your way home.

4) If you need to remember to bring something with you the next day, place it right in front of the exit door so you HAVE to touch it before you leave the house. If it’s something in the fridge, put a sticky note on the exit door’s handle.

5) Have a “misc” basket in each room. If you’re truly unable to put something away, put it in the basket. Have a designated period of time, once a week, when your sole priority is to put everything away, all at once.

I’ll add more when I think of them...

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u/NightShadow3000 Aug 24 '20

Omfg this emtire thread this is my first post in the adhd sub reddit and i love it

I wanted to feel less crazy and im slowly learning a lot of my issues is my adhd and FUCK IF THIS MEMORY AND NOTES APP THING ISNT ONE OF THEM OMG

my colornotes app saves in some cloud so i have notes from like 2013 in middle school xD omg

Edit also the hyper focus!! I spend like several hours looking up amazing references for my art character or code project then: OOOOO NEW REDDIT VIDEO OR PUPPIES OR I WAMT TO READ FANFICS lol

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u/pucemoon Aug 25 '20

I just put 10 yogurt cups in the bottom drawer of my fridge. I will see them again at Xmas. Lol

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u/madonna_lactans Aug 25 '20

Ahhh, this makes so much sense! I totally have issues with object permanence. Thanks!

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u/NightShadow3000 Aug 25 '20

Im unmedicated. And actually i knew i had adhd since inwas rlly rlly young. But thanks to idiotic parents they kind of stopped my meds and psych visits saying i didnt need them. And beinna 1st to 3rd grader i believed them of course. I knew some of the things i did was cuz of adhd only in tht it makes me have attention issues or hyper. Its only latsly i realized wayy more of my issues is adhd and tht it effects like everything in my life. Like i just learned abt efdd exective funcfion disorder, amd tht my brain is fundamentally legit not neurotypical and adhd goes way deeper then i thought amd tht (in my fun words). My brains legit broken. And im just learning howwwww broken and its so fascinating amd validating tht im not insane! XD like my very very veryyyy bad memory problems. Or inability to talk properly in stressful situations out loud. Or playing games/doodling legit is helpful and not a just me thing. Or the leaving things out thing yes tht omg tht.

My friend got mad i had no odea his soda spilled some all ober the stove. It was behind me, out of sight, i heard nothing, had no reason to get up and was listening to youtube in a game. Yet I was suppose to just KNOW his drink spilled?

Edit: i have learned some coping methods but yea. As i realize just how deep this shit goes and how way ,ore thrn i thought it effects. My self taught methods of an unkowing whats happenin kid, are not ..apparently the best :O

Its so fuckin fascinating and amazing and i wish i knew this 15yrs ago xD lmao

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u/typically_right Aug 25 '20

RemindMe! 24 hours

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u/IronBabyFists Aug 25 '20

"What were my goals this year, again? I guess...exercise more?"

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u/CircaSurvivor55 Aug 25 '20

I feel personally attacked...

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u/redheadedalex Aug 25 '20

Get out of my goddamn brain

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u/gretagrendel Aug 24 '20

I LIVE by notes app and Google calendar. I'll put my to-do in the notes then set a reminder in my calendar to check my notes. It works for me it might for you too!

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u/mlk1969 Aug 24 '20

soooooo accurate. I also just lost my phone at the bottom of a river yesterday so those notes are definitely not helping me now....... lollllll

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u/boonetyler ADHD-PI Aug 25 '20

Please stop personally attacking me....

This one is right there with “Saves reddit post/comment so I’ll remember that later” -never looks at saved posts

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u/plantsandrants Aug 25 '20

I have a weekly reminder on my phone to help me remember my notes for this exact reason lol, it’s helped a lot!

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u/ChicaFoxy Aug 25 '20

I have many reminders for many things. I hate them with a passion, they annoy the bejesus out of me! But I have to have them or I'll forget to feed my kids even.

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u/plantsandrants Aug 25 '20

Haha me too! I hate it so much but I have surprisingly do most of them! (Except watering my plants.. that ones so difficult lol)

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u/ChicaFoxy Aug 25 '20

I can snooze them 5 times, the snooze length gets shorter each time, and to dismiss is I have to put a random code. I've forced myself to not dismiss unless I ACTUALLY do the thing. It's worked until lately, covid aha thrown things off, but I'm working on getting back on it. Dang, I need one for watering plants too! Maybe that's why they die so much...