this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it
buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell
leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist
put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.
when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!
plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.
if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge
if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.
its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.
You have no idea how pleased I am that more and more people are accepting the healthy middle ground between the equally unhealthy "I must be able to do things normally or else" and "I am neurodivergent so there is no hope for me."
Accommodating my ADHD is an ongoing process because discovering where those problems are is an ongoing process. But the minute I have even one thing on lock, it helps me start hunting down those other things and fixing them.
(Also Bird's Eye steamfresh bags are a godsend, especially the ones that have pasta or rice included.)
For those who are trying the whole "I'm gonna use a planner and get my life together" song and dance, I've found two that seem to help. They are designed to be adhd friendly. I've got the centered life co.'s printable everything bundle so that when I need to physically wrote things down, I can print off the specific sheets and I've got a perpetual digital planner from Future ADHD that is good for being able to sync across devices, have separate days already set up if you want with hyperlinks to each day of the year, and take meeting notes in. You can also print off the individual pages. Both are judgement free, designed for flexibility, and are very reasonably priced
