More seriously, ADHD, among others, is a working memory disorder. A way to cover this is to use “prosthetics” for it, such as a notepad that you always carry with you. If this affects you strongly, train your muscle memory to use it to note down what you were planning to do and to refer to it when you forgot.
In PC-speak, ADHDers have traded RAM for more CPU.
train your muscle memory to use it
Remember Sammy Jenkins.
That’s not what it feels like for me. I grew up basically getting the “what’s wrong with you? Just focus” treatment, so I always default to saying to myself “no, no, it’ll be okay, I’ll just try really super duper hard; I’m sure it’ll work this time.”
How does writing things down help when I don’t remember to read them back…?
I don’t need a notepad cause it’s ONLY 1 thing I need to remember. That is, till the next thing 5 minutes from now…
I rely on paper: a planner for ‘do thing when’ and a bullet-journaly information book. I know a lot of people like phone for this, but once I unlock the phone … I’m on lemmy. I prefer much more immediate and focused tools for myself
