Concrete Dehumidifier

you want to watch a movie. you put it on. two hours have passed. you haven’t watched the movie. there are five new tasks in front of you. you want to watch a different movie.

there is an object in your hand. it is extremely important you don’t lose it. you look down. there is nothing in your hand.

you don’t know your friend’s name. you’ve been friends for months. they just told you their name. you do not know their name.

your friend doesn’t laugh at your joke. why didn’t they laugh? do they hate you? they assure you otherwise. you know they are lying. did they ever like you?

someone asks you what you just said. did you say something? you said so many things. you said nothing. you said everything.

there is something you’re forgetting. you check. you check again. there is nothing you’re forgetting. there is something you’re forgetting.

you had something to say. you can’t remember. it was important. wasn’t it? you can’t remember. 

you awake and lie in bed. you plan a detail to-do list in your head. excited, you step out of bed only to feel the motivation drain off of you like oil from a duck’s back. the bed calls to you like a siren to a sailor

did you lock the door? if you check, you will have locked the door. if you do not check, you will not have locked the door. if you check and have locked the door there is a reasonable chance you will accidentally unlock the door. there is no way to win this game.

you are hungry. you eat nothing. you are not hungry. you eat everything. the moon laughs at you.

ADHDers struggle with task switching.. holding different pieces of info slows us down and increases chance of us being distracted. Our brains also has difficulty automatically breaking down tasks into workable steps.

Therefore you want to manually break up the tasks into smaller tasks where you only have to hold one thing in mind. 

Its actually the same as the comic says, you want to break them up into steps so you don’t need to think about anything else while doing it. Make it as mindless as possible, so you only have to focus on the thing you’re doing.

The smaller the tasks, the less you have to task switch and the less chance of fucking up.

So with the room cleaning example, our ADHD brains thinks of everything it needs to do at the same time, doesn’t know where to start and panics/ get intimidated. 

Breaking down the task into workable ONE THINGS gives it easy instructions, that it doesn’t need to think about. 

I don’t really know how to describe this feeling other than stressful, so I decided to draw it

My ADHD:

Once someone with ADHD puts an object down, it becomes a facet of the room rather than an actual object that can be interacted with. It isn’t its own object anymore. That’s why we can scan over an object over and over again without seeing it because it doesn’t stand out. 

You can install on your tablets, laptops and browers etc, so not only can you change things like documents into it, you can change websites into that font as well! 

For computer reading, when you mix up lines of text, there’s a web browser app called Beeline Reader. It looks like this