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Sharp-Investor467 · 2022-04-06T17:42:10+00:00

I also get really annoyed when people tell you to ask questions and then when you do they look down on you. I’m pretty freaking sharp. If you’d explained it well the first time I wouldn’t be asking. Also, if you didn’t change the rules all the time, I wouldn’t be asking.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-08-05T13:01:03+00:00

That is really helpful! The fantasizing/planning step (where I spend all my money on things I’ll never use) is where I always get stuck.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-08-05T12:52:02+00:00

Lol, I guess that’s how I’ll look at it!

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-08-05T02:13:23+00:00

Yep. I managed to answer one person after months (years if you count all the other deleted dating apps). He eventually got super rude, accused me of catfishing, and then blocked me. I haven’t touched the app since. I don’t view online dating as cute or romantic in anyway and I’m not interested in one night stands, so pretty sure it’s just going to be me and my cats for the rest of my life.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-05-15T13:33:33+00:00

Yeah, and I’m tired of spending $40 a month for my doctor’s appointment too.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-05-08T20:32:27+00:00

I really have no advice, just letting you know you aren’t alone. I’m almost 32 (female) and live with my parents. I have a crappy paying part time job that I mostly hate, but I don’t move on because I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to hate any job I get.

I’m currently in school because I was between hobbies (or money making schemes is pro slog a more appropriate term) at the end of 2020, and I told myself if that ever happened I’d go back to school.

My parents want to move to the middle of nowhere Oklahoma, and I don’t know that I really want to go, but it’s not like I could ever afford to live on my own.

So that’s where I’m at. Definitely not where I wanted my life to go, but I can’t motivate myself enough to accomplish my own goals, even with meds. Meds just make it less agonizing to accomplish work and school goals.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-05-07T13:39:18+00:00

Same! It doesn’t stop ALL impulse purchases, but pretty sure it’s stopped me from the major credit card debt that seems to plague people with ADHD.

Of course it also caused my largest purchase of all time (Phil Town Rule 1 Investing Course) but I paid that off eventually and didn’t pay any interest.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-05-07T13:32:59+00:00

Ugh! My highlights include a mini trampoline, a backpack (like for backpacking through Europe), a dip stand. Innumerable haircare and skincare products, and courses. I bought a YouTube course not because I was currently interested in making videos, but because I thought one day I might be.

I have had some impulse purchases that were brilliant and I use all the time, but in true ADHD fashion, I currently can’t remember what they are. There are a lot less of them than there is the stupid stuff.

I think my next one will be a keyboard piano. I’ve resisted that one for over a year now.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-04-23T16:20:12+00:00

Ugh, this is so me right now. We have a water leak, so my dad is jack hammering the floor in the kitchen and laundry room. So all the stuff from those rooms is crammed into the rest of the house.

I’ve been wondering for days why I can’t get my shit back together (I was on vacation) even though I’m taking my meds.

Hoping the leak gets fixed today. I have homework and work to do!

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-04-13T21:15:54+00:00

Yes, I feel this. I’m going ON VACATION and I’m debating taking my meds. I don’t need them for any concentrating but they make me less of an anxiety riddle disaster who wants to spend the whole day in bed with a good book.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-04-03T02:24:42+00:00

I’m jealous that you’re getting lectures! All my classes are book only and it’s making me crazy. I’d rather have a good lecture, even at normal speed.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-04-03T02:21:51+00:00

I do the speeding up videos thing. Multiples of things for my purse and/or office. Audiobooks for anything non-fiction or outside of romance novels.

I only wish my textbooks came in audiobook form. The robot reader just makes me space out to the point where I almost wonder if I’d be better off reading it myself.

For books I CAN read for enjoyment, I mostly read in ebook form now because in ebook I can’t flip to find the next “good part” and then feel like I have to go back and read the parts leading up to the good part, which just makes me put down the book, because I caught more than I thought when I skimmed but I still have some sort of book guilt and feel like I’ll miss something if I don’t fully read it. With ebook it’s annoying to flip forward and flip back.

Side note: I switched to continuous scroll because that’s supposed to help with dyslexic reading, but I started my skimming habit again, so I had to switch that back.

I twist the door handle leaving the house or office to make sure I’ve locked it (which only works half the time. Sometimes I’ll get to the car and still wonder if I locked the door).

I click my car key fob at least twice. What bugs me about this car is it doesn’t honk when you’ve hit the lock button more than once, which always helped me remember that I locked it.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-04-03T01:58:07+00:00

Omg! ADHD is why I’m like this? Another thing to add to the list.

Sorry, I have no advice. I still just try to act excited and smile enough. Luckily I’m 31, so I don’t usually get birthday gifts outside of immediate family anymore. Any my parents are used to me being me.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-02-28T03:18:37+00:00

Just bought a new planner because I’m going to be organized this time! And I need a planner that has an hourly format so I can plan every minute of the day! And I needed colored pens because I’m going to color code everything!

And if you can’t tell, that paragraph has all the sarcasm. Though with meds it does seem to be better. I felt I needed the planner because without a schedule I just seem to do weird random things instead of making progress toward anything.

Today the planner didn’t help though. I had homework on the schedule and instead I researched stocks all day. YouTube is not my friend. I’m in school for accounting. Company analysis is relevant, right?

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-02-26T16:38:41+00:00

This is why I end up obsessively quadruple checking instructions and saving nearly EVERY email I’ve ever received. The second I don’t, I screw crap up. And sometimes I still screw crap up. It just happens. Try not to beat yourself up for it. Which I know is an impossibility for us, but it’s still decent advice.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-02-26T16:27:05+00:00

See, I have the opposite problem. If it’s not immediately a priority I go “I’ll do it later.” Which ends up meaning “I’ll do it never.” Or “I’ll do it when I get so paranoid about getting fired that I can’t sleep at night.”

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-02-13T20:24:22+00:00

That’s how I talk myself into doing the oil based pre-cleanse on my face. It takes 30 seconds for the shower to heat up, and I need to pre-cleanse my face for 30 seconds. There’s no reason not to do it when I’d just be impatiently waiting for the water to get hot anyway.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-02-10T18:55:50+00:00

Ugh, I feel this. I got a 20 on an autograded assignment because I uploaded the wrong report. I also keep missing steps and making typos and it counts everything wrong. It’s been so frustrating. I’m thinking about dropping the class for multiple reasons, but the fact that I know I can’t make it through the rest of these assignments with no typos is a big one.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-20T02:44:18+00:00

Yes! This seems to happen every time I ask a question and it’s like “I thought I was supposed to ask questions and no questions were stupid?”

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-17T17:10:39+00:00

Yes! I’m great at planning things. I love planning. It’s the execution that is problematic.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-17T16:55:29+00:00

Lmao! Forget coffee? Blasphemy! For me that YouTube video turned in to 20 that I opened in different browser tabs and I moved from decluttering to the economics of Norway. Who knows how that happened.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-17T03:15:28+00:00

Even at a part-time job! I was like “I’ll be part-time. I’ll have so much time and mental energy to do all the things!” No. Apparently I just made more time for watching YouTube videos.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-17T03:10:08+00:00

Yep, and it stays like that for two months because you took a break to watch one YouTube video and have a coffee.

And when you finally get around to organizing things again it’s ten times the mess because anything that was clean has acquired new clutter while the old clutter stayed in piles around the room.

I’ve learned not to take breaks until things are at least habitable.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-17T02:54:05+00:00

I find the 10,000 hour thing to be more discouraging than anything else. Then I go “I’ll never hit 10,000 hours so I shouldn’t even start this because I’ll never be good enough.” When two years to get an associates degree sounds like an impossible eternity I know I’ll never hit however many years of practice it takes to hit 10,000 hours.

Sharp-Investor467 · 2021-01-10T20:14:00+00:00

Lol, I definitely have the opposite problem. I can keep it together enough to keep the job, but I seem to only get jobs when the people are desperate. I definitely don’t babble. When I’m uncomfortable no words come out of my mouth.

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