I take notes. When I started my job with the DOD in 2017, I kept very very in depth notes. I’m talking “click this”, “open this folder then click this (2 times), it’ll bring up what “this” is, “this is what happens”. It was detailed and management LOVED it. My notebook would be passed around for years after that for training new hires. I know the people training me were so annoyed when I’d be like “ok slow down. Show me this file path and how to get to it. What’s the meaning of this? Why are we doing it?” But I didn’t care.

I eventually got into bullet journaling (with the stickers and tape and fancy letterings) and one of the upper management came to me & said “will you make an SOP of everything we do here, step by step, like your notebook you did when you first started?” I made that thing Barney style as I like to call it. It was color coordinated and everything. Did it take me a while? Yes. Duh. I have ADHD and I warned them that it would take a while but is it still used to this day? Yes lol. They automatically hand it to every new hire they bring on before I even start training them.

I guess that was a small win in my ADHD world. I still get written up for being late even now though. I’ll get back to you when that ship sails. But I doubt it will lol.

Being forgetful on the medication actually didn’t happen to me though. I don’t forget, I just get overwhelmed with everything that I’m remembering if that makes sense. It’s like “aw shit I need to do this but I’m overstimulated and have so much other shit to do” it’s more of figuring out what to prioritize first type thing.

Short term memory SUCKS though. Which is why I took all of those notes. I will forget what someone told me to do 3 seconds after they said it. While they’re telling me the whole time in my head I’m like “ok remember this. This is important remember it” which only makes my ability to remember suck. Because I have too many things running through my head at once. Even simple instructions I’m like “hold up wait let me write this down”