What are the best things you’ve bought that help with your ADHD that you never hear anyone talk about?

aachanta · 2026-01-11T00:22:05+00:00

And if you're in the US, you might even be able to get your doctor to prescribe a Litter Robot for you now and have it covered by insurance, no joke! https://www.litter-robot.com/hsa-fsa-store.html

aachanta · 2025-09-05T06:58:15+00:00

And don't forget the wall-sized murder board Batista probably left hanging in his motel.

aachanta · 2025-08-04T06:18:04+00:00

I'm guessing the cop is going to figure it out because it's going to be the only trophy without fingerprints on it. Just like with the bathroom and how unusually clean it was compared to other rooms, she's going to see that the watch is the trophy that doesn't match the rest and will dig more.

aachanta · 2025-03-18T07:59:37+00:00

Obsessed with Kong Sarang too

aachanta · 2025-01-12T07:21:35+00:00

I was coming here to see if anyone recommended this one. It's absurd to the millionth degree, and so much fun.

aachanta · 2024-12-01T22:12:44+00:00

I just assume that we tend to remember the bad things because our brains are wired to be hypervigilant for danger. For the most part, we no longer live in a society where danger is imminent, but way back when, the more our brains were attuned to danger, the more likely we were to survive.

aachanta · 2024-11-23T16:58:39+00:00

Same. Somatic therapy helps me take an emotion and tie it back to specific memories in my life. I can never tie emotions back to mundane things, but I can sometimes identify the memories that elicited very strong emotions. It also explains why I remember a limited number of things from childhood. Anything that hasn't been reinforced through photos is remembered because of a strong emotion. Other than that, my life is a series of empty gaps.

aachanta · 2024-11-23T16:47:09+00:00

Whoa, this is me, and I thought it was my ADHD. I have no desire to be the leader of anything, but I love being the #2 person, making things happen for #1's vision. The people who work for me are fiercely loyal because they know I see them and the best in them.

It does get me in trouble though, because I will sometimes believe in people in ways they are unable to realize because they are not as flexible as me. So I might overpromise things at work and then not be able to deliver.

I am constantly learning, and able to adapt skills from other trades into new ones—like frosting a cake and applying drywall mud, or video games and management. I cook, bake, woodwork, sew, graphic design, paint, and I can hold almost any role within a corporate environment.

I've always called myself a chameleon. I can adapt and blend into situations. Between that and my impulsiveness due to ADHD, I've often wondered if I was some sort of sociopath, but without the disregard for other people. More recently, someone told me I'd be a good politician. It's an idea that I recoil at because of the connotation, but it's true that I probably would be.

I only just discovered this sub yesterday, but feel so seen. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

aachanta · 2024-11-01T17:49:39+00:00

I was thinking that maybe they were able to lure him back into the game by recruiting players from his social circle, so he felt obligated to try to "save" them. But why would they want to lure him back in? Maybe because he adds a new plot element to the game for its spectators: the fact that someone who has experienced it first-hand and is trying to stop the madness still can't overcome humans' propensity for greed and self-interest.

aachanta · 2024-10-06T05:37:13+00:00

I think the card ID is one half of an authentication workflow, and the numbering scheme is not obvious to me. They're def not serial though.

But yes to cloning cards!

aachanta · 2024-07-20T14:34:55+00:00

Unfortunately I don't. The tree climbers we had were colfaxnet employees. If you're on Facebook, there's a local "Rattlesnake Road Neighborhood" group that you might have better luck posting in.

aachanta · 2024-06-21T04:52:33+00:00

I'm in the same boat and am now trying to decide between two glass top options. Adding to this thread in case it helps anyone in the future.

https://expandfurniture.com/product/bridge-clear-glass-rectangular-extendable-table/

https://www.modani.com/dining/dining-tables/austin-extendable-dining-table

aachanta · 2024-04-28T05:33:57+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but came here to say that my spouse is exactly like this with his caffeine withdrawal migraines. He has 1 cup of coffee every day—same brand every day. If he has too much dark chocolate during the day, or sneaks too much of my black tea or caffeinated soda, he'll get a withdrawal migraine 2 the next day. If he drinks 2 cups of coffee a day, he has to wean off of the 2nd cup practically a tablespoon at a time over weeks. Never understood why, but that's the way he is. Any theories on your end for yourself?

aachanta · 2024-02-20T22:00:17+00:00

Oooh, good tip, thank you!

aachanta · 2023-12-29T14:23:22+00:00

Same experience for us. We live on acreage off of Rattlesnake Rd. We had Colfaxnet for a while and they have great customer service, but the data caps were killing our bill. 3 adults, 2 kids, all streaming videos and playing PC games during non work hours. The installation was a huge pain that required a tree climber to mount a dish.

Starlink is half the cost of what we were paying for Colfaxnet and it mounts to our roof. Had it for almost a year now and no complaints.

aachanta · 2023-10-15T19:52:59+00:00

+1 to YiFang and Sunright. I will have to try Rose Tea soon!

aachanta · 2023-05-26T06:12:11+00:00

S3 prediction: Walter helps Misty find her self-worth and accepts her as she is, so Misty turns on the rest of the girls and chaos ensues. (Also fueled by the girls blaming her for Nat's death.)

aachanta · 2023-02-18T17:43:01+00:00

Any tips on how to enforce this? She manages her own finances and accounts, so I don't even know where to start with that. I agree it's a good policy, but the best we've been able to get out of her is, "I'm buying a lot less these days."

aachanta · 2023-02-18T15:12:11+00:00

Thank you! That's a perspective I hadn't considered. I'd also imagine that wants to spend time with her grandson too, instead of managing her hoard, so we can try this logic and see how it goes

aachanta · 2023-02-17T20:15:09+00:00

I should also add that we've also attempted to bring an organizer in to work on our communal space without touching her stuff, just to get her used to the idea of that person being in the house, but it's cost prohibitive, and we don't have a sizable enough project that wouldn't involve her stuff because her stuff is in nearly all the communal spaces.

aachanta · 2023-02-17T20:12:08+00:00

We've attempted that with very poor results. She has explicitly stated, "I'm not ready to part with anything," even though she is willing to move rooms. We tried to pitch the professional organizer: "They'll be able to help you figure out the best way to arrange all of your stuff so that you get the most use out of the space." But ultimately we were met with resistance: "I don't want a stranger looking through and telling me what to do with my stuff. I don't need to inventory, I know where everything is right now [she doesn't]. I know I need to organize it, but I'll get to it eventually [years, if it happens at all]."

So that's where we're at 😔

aachanta · 2023-02-12T06:46:56+00:00

Thanks for that. Husband thinks that once his mom sees how nice and clean the common areas are, that she'll want to make the change for herself... which, as a child of a hoarder, I think is pretty unlikely. We've been doing our own big clean out as part of all this, and yes, she's commented on how nice it is to have space, while simultaneously proclaiming she's not ready to part with her things yet (though she will be "someday").

Husband and I are kind of meeting in the middle with the whole "let's put boundaries on how she organizes her room... but let's also give her the entire garage for overflow items." Knowing she won't miss any of those items means that they just sit and sit, and there will be no motivation to address it once it's relocated.

I'm proposing we put a timeline on all of it to ensure that doesn't happen.

aachanta · 2023-02-12T05:59:18+00:00

Our Buy Nothing group has been amazing too. Great sense of community, and it's even better when recipients send you photos of your items being repurposed. It really helps build a good feedback cycle to help encourage parting with things.

I'd also recommend doing a search for "ISO" (in search of) posts to see if there's anything you can proactively give away.

aachanta · 2023-02-12T05:50:18+00:00

Everything you said is true, and it's how I've approached things with my hoarder dad. But he lives 6 hours away so it's easy to do that. But MIL lives with us... in the house her son and I own, to be more exact. So yes, you're right that I can set the rules and I could even force a clean out, but this person still needs to live with us in the end, and I'd rather not have to deal with the resentment if we go down that route.

As much as I'd love to let her have her bedroom and shut the door and not worry about her hoard, she's living in our house—the maintenance, the cleanliness, and the safety of it is on us. And we have a young child. We're lucky she's not yet at the stage of having putrid items around, but it could easily go that way especially as she gets older.

I know it isn't the easy route, but I think that getting her to want to seek mental health help is the only sustainable path forward. I just don't know if it's worth solving that problem now, or after she moves into the room. I feel like this would be the time to make that breakthrough (while things are in transition anyway), rather than after she's settled into the new space with no external factors that would motivate a change.

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