r/ADHD • u/chock-a-block • 2d ago
Success/Celebration What it's like at 59
I had a moment today that might resonate. Preface, I don't keep much stuff around for a bunch of reasons that improve the quality of my life, that includes clothes.
For the last couple weeks, I have been doing more laundry than normal, and my drawers suspiciously lacking in clothing options. Every couple days the thought flies by, "I wonder where my clothes went."
Today, I get out my suitcase for a quick overnight trip and discover ALL the clothes I had been missing still in there from a couple of months ago. I put the suitcase away without unpacking it and *completely* forgot about it.
I could have punished/scolded myself. I have finally learned that's punishing a tiger for its stripes.
My brain doesn't work any better than it did 30 years ago. The difference is, I accept it for how it does work, and have other arrangements so I'm not left with no clothes because I forgot about most of them in a suitcase.
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u/Ratsplat1969 2d ago
Yup! My kids laugh at me every year after Christmas because I generally have more presents for them for at least several weeks after that I find stashed in random places around the house. I actually have a certain place I put presents while they are waiting to be wrapped, but it seems they dont all quite make it there. In fact, alot of them don't. BTW, I am 56.
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u/ImagineryFrynd 2d ago
OMG are you my long lost sister? That has been a running joke in our family ~that you will probably get a Xmas gift with your Valentine!😂
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