The lighter side of ADHD
Meme pilfered from How To ADHD Meme reaction video ๐
A while ago a found a hot pocket in the microwave that I had forgotten about 3 days prior. I've also left the oven on more than once. Sometimes a single alert isnt enough.
Who needs a timer? Just last month I changed the batteries on my smoke alarm...
"Month" is a weird way to spell "decade" ๐
Just today I remembered food is on stove when wife came for lunch... After when I just told her to come eat 10min ago
Oh... Shit! There's food in the oven?!
looks at black lump in oven
actually, I think that's technically considered coal now..
I'll remember, because I'm hungry. Because I only realised it was time to make food because I got hungry.
Yeah, noticing and remembering that you're hungry isn't the given that most people consider it to be when you have ADHD..
So true, even if I realise I'm hungry and have enough impulse control to put something in the oven instead of ordering in or resorting to a protein shake for dinner, there is an 80% chance that I will both forget that I'm hungry and completely forget I haven't eaten, in the time it takes the food to cook.
40 minutes later I'm sitting at my desk thinking "why have I got such a bad headache? why do I feel so groggy and cranky? Wait, do I need a nap!? I probably need a nap... Hang on, Why can I smell smoke?"
Why do I always assume I need a nap, even if I haven't eaten all day!? I have to basically run through a flow chart to figure out why my head hurts. Food, water, full bladder, sleep, eye strain? Why do I feel bad? Who knows?
It's a mystery only neurotypical people can solve!
I've somehow managed to train myself out of this, but it was basically my entire 20s.
ok maybe I don't have ADHD because my hunger is definitely stronger
or hunger is my first assumption just like a nap is yours
I'm awaiting assessment, but there's a strong chance I have both autism and ADHD (my brother and father are both autistic, I was never assessed because it wasn't as obvious growing up as a girl that I struggled with similar things, but it's hard to know without an assessment because my ADHD was undiagnosed for so long so there's a lot of overlapping symptoms from all the maladaptive coping mechanisms I've developed)
I know poor hunger signals are a big part of autism too, so maybe I've got a double whammy ๐คทโโ๏ธ
But it also sounds like your sensitive to hunger signals the same way I'm sensitive to fatigue/drowsiness signals, so it sounds like the same underlying interception issue, just two different outcomes of that attempt to listen to our bodies.
I do both. I'll also set the cook timer on the oven so it shuts off because I'll still forget even after the timer on my phone goes off.
My partner bought me one of those all in one cookers (instant pot style thing) because it will automatically shut off when it's done cooking..
It has saved our relationship with our neighbours because I'm no longer setting off smoke alarms every other night.
Case in point, while typing this I just heard it beep and it scared the shit out of me because I completely forgot I put some squishy old pears (that were always destined to rot in my fridge) in it to stew when I got home... like 2 hours ago.
It feels like past me has left a suprise gift for present me, because I have stewed pears for dessert now!
Oh man, I would love an oven with that function lol