#audihd

Shower for neurotypical brain:

Step 1: get my towels

Step 2: shower

Step 3: use my towels

Step 4: get dressed

DONE!

Shower for my autistic ADHD ass:

Step 1: find hair towel

Step 2: find body towel

Step 3: find bathrobe

Step 4: empty pockets of daily comfort items

Step 5: enter bathroom

Step 6: put hair towel on bathroom hook

Step 7: put body towel on bathroom hook

Step 8: put bathrobe on bathroom hook

Step 9: remove comfort jewelry

Step 10: undress

Step 11: turn on shower

Step 12: wait for water to warm to comfortable temperature

Step 13: SENSORY HELL OF WATER ON MY NAKED BODY

Step 14: shampoo hair

Step 15: rinse shampoo

Step 16: condition hair

Step 17: soap up loofah

Step 18: SENSORY HELL OF SCRUBBING DOWN MY WHOLE SWEATY ASS BODY

Step 19: rinse bodywash and conditioner out of hair

Step 20: slowly cool water down so the temperature change from warm water to cold air doesn't ruin the rest of my fucking day/night

Step 21: turn off water

Step 22: step out of shower

Step 23: wrap up hair in hair towel

Step 24: wrap up body in body towel

Step 25: get into bathrobe

Step 26: re-apply comfort jewelry

Step 27: pick up previously discarded clothes

Step 28: leave bathroom

Step 29: put dirty clothes in hamper

Step 30: find clothes for the day/pajamas for bedtime

Step 31: get re-dressed

FINALLY DONE AND I FEEL LIKE I'VE LOST A PIECE OF MY SOUL DOWN THE FUCKING DRAIN

Source: I just took a shower and actually counted how many times my brain went "okay, now what do I do?"

Normal everyday tasks suddenly get a lot more exhausting when your brain treats them as 31 separate tasks, huh?

Most people think he’s being a picky but polite jerk about sensory stuff because he doesn’t know how to explain it.

With clothes most of the time his skin is SCREAMING at the texture unless it’s his knight wear undergarments or his comfort but cute lade back clothes.

Him coming off as a little bratty to people controlling his image but clearly trying hard to be polite and patient because it’s their job and the weird rules he has to follow make him mask constantly and ignore sensory issues.

What I’m saying is they made this man cut his hair from the long beautiful waves with an undercut to short bangs and I KNOW HE WAS DEVASTATED AT THE SENSORY LOSS

(previously harpyrex)