A while ago I posted about how it is the ones without ADHD that are the real loonies and the rubbish advice they give you. I think I mentioned the (un)helpful advice of using a diary when we all already have many diaries. The same applies to lists. You have so many lists that you actually have started to make a list of lists, at least once, right?
Anyway, great minds think alike, or at least the ADHD ones do, since we all encounter similar problems including getting advice to make lists. Here’s what Kim Kensington has to say:
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I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD after years of struggling in and out of work (it was never picked up at school), not knowing whether I was coming or going. I am not a list or diary person as I don’t seem to have the ability to know what to write down to make sense of what I need to do. When I think about it I become so confused. If I do write anything down I either leave things lying around so it goes missing or like I’ve I’ve just read on here list to remind of list. Something else I’ve noticed that ties in with a familiar pattern is the quantity of list/diary/reminder systems some of you have. On a similar scale my pc folders are so full of folders within folders some empty some not, some with a single bookmark. Its like I know that I’m going to forget so I create a folder and put work in it, then forget where it is or that I’ve created it so create another, or I fear I’m going to lose work so have tons of the same same stuff saved all over the place in no particular order. I’m still waiting to find out a bout cognitive therapy (I’m not too keen on going down the Ritalin route) but I haven’t handed in the surveys the mental health unit have asked me to fill in as I simply keep forgetting( and I lost the first one somehow) Has anyone else experienced anything similar?
Posted by John | May 8, 2012, 9:30 amThere’ll be more than a few people with similar experiences on the forum.
Posted by AADD-UK | May 8, 2012, 10:12 amI make lists, and then loose them.
I’ve even tried writing urgent things, like appointment times, on my hands but then forget to look at said hand, or wash it off so I can’t see the time.
Posted by Anna | March 3, 2012, 2:31 pmI actually have lists that have notes on the bottom that say things like “See other List!!” Oh Dear!!!
Posted by Elliot Lowe | February 7, 2012, 3:16 amGosh we are all very smug and superior here aren’t we.
A newcomer speaks: some of us may well just get a bit of a buzz about getting SOME help or just even a conversation about the thing that has been driving us mad for the last 50 odd years. Just because you are an ‘expert’ (well I assume you are, you write on a website and have heard about mainframes) it would be really useful if you didn’t spend quite so much time pointing the finger at the dumb outside world.
Perhaps you could recognise that those of us that had to invent lists all on our own (because we were drowning, there was no support and the paint on the internet was still rather wet), may well say “well it’s a start” or “jesus h christ, do you not have the imagination to conceive that maybe just maybe a sufferer hadn’t thought of lists yet – and who knows it may help.”
You are angry, I get that – a lot of us are, but why not have a goal of making your posts useful? Perhaps keep it in mind and track it through the week – have you got a diary? Maybe write the point of your post on a piece of paper and put it on the fridge or by the return button on your teletype keyboard.
Just a thought.
Posted by Chris | January 25, 2012, 11:21 amAADD UK would like to point out that Aethelreadtheunready is our guest ‘grumpy’ columnist and isn’t to be taken too seriously, nor as an expert in anything. We hope you’ll find the other writers of this web site more helpful and sympathetic.
Posted by AADD-UK | February 7, 2012, 1:34 pmHa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Do I have a diary? I have hundreds!
Posted by aethelreadtheunready | February 7, 2012, 1:40 pmHahahahaha i make a list of things & thats it. If you mak a list of all list you just making life more confusing for yourself lol
Posted by Antony | December 26, 2011, 6:21 pm