ADHD is fun. And by fun I mean a cruel time waster. So let me tell you a story…
So all day I was craving some soup. I make soup in a particular pot. Because ADHD I took a while (some hours) to actually get motivated to grab the pot, to make the soup. So I got up and looked in all the usual places and couldn’t find the pot. So I rested for a few hours and then decided to try again. I looked in another spot, and couldn’t find the pot.
At some point, I realized I was too hungry to wait to find the pot to cook this soup. I’d have to just eat something else. So I went in the refrigerator, made a quick bowl of awesomeness including quinoa that was in the pot in the fridge. I enjoyed my vegan meal, did some work, went back to resting.
Urge came up later, that I needed something to eat so I should get up and find that pot so I could make my soup. After searching EVERY logical place for the pot, I still didn’t find it. I was a little frustrated, but just decided it was already 10pm so I guess I just wouldn’t eat.
So around 10:15, a thought crossed my mind. The last time I couldn’t find the pot, it ended up being in the fridge. I had cooked rice in it. And it was right about then that I realized that not only did I grab quinoa from THE POT to make myself a vegan bowl earlier. I also grabbed that SAME POT hours ago to make my daughter’s dinner plate.
So now, at 10:40, I am making my soup, because I am very hungry.
*BTW feel free to save your “that’s not ADHD, I do that all the time” comments. Not interested. (You may lowkey have it, too. 😆)
Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist
MDillon Designs & Publishing 