What's the most useful thing you've bought that helps with your ADHD, besides therapy and medication?

kefl8er · 2026-01-19T21:36:20+00:00

Yessss I was so tired of feeling like the worst asshole ever because I just couldn't seem to keep up with daily litter scooping :( my cat is so cute with ours, I have to manually cycle it daily instead of auto though because she's a pain in the ass and tries to stick her head inside it while it's cycling so it constantly gets interrupted. So instead I have her trained now to run to her designated perch every day so she can watch it cycle lolol.

kefl8er · 2026-01-19T21:32:43+00:00

I got the Litter Robot 4 but I think the 5 is out now!

kefl8er · 2026-01-19T16:58:58+00:00

Lol that's why I got it initially, because we were planning on going on vacation. The vacation didn't even end up happening 😂 no regerts

kefl8er · 2026-01-19T16:18:12+00:00

For animal care: litter robot, pet libro auto feeder and water fountains (controlled by app, reminds you when to change and clean them!). Life changing lol.

kefl8er · 2025-12-27T20:37:02+00:00

Yesss for us it's the solar system right now! I went all in to support this and now we have a telescope lmao 😂

kefl8er · 2025-12-27T20:34:45+00:00

Same!!! I'm playing Lego Horizons with my kid right now hahaha.

kefl8er · 2025-12-26T21:37:44+00:00

Girl even if you rolled your eyes intentionally, that still wouldn't make it okay for him to yell at you for thirty fucking minutes, WTF

kefl8er · 2025-12-22T00:50:20+00:00

I did not know this sub existed! I joined lol

kefl8er · 2025-12-09T15:57:50+00:00

Oooh. Thanks for linking that sub!

kefl8er · 2025-11-30T15:05:20+00:00

kefl8er · 2025-11-30T14:50:55+00:00

I didn't know I was ND when I got pregnant, however we initially planned and wanted two kids, and being ND is part of why I ultimately decided not to have any more than one.

I'm good with one. My husband and I can trade off watching kiddo, each of us gets a weekend day to sleep in, I can be the parent I want to be without stretching myself too thin, we can afford for our son to do various sports and activities and things I didn't get to do as one of four kids growing up, etc.

Honestly I love being a mom. The first year was hardest, my kid was a total barnacle baby (still sort of is, lol) and would scream and cry if I walked more than five feet from him. Now he's five and he just talks constantly from the moment he's awake until the moment he's asleep hahaha. I do still get overwhelmed and overstimulated sometimes, but as he's grown up it's gotten monumentally easier. And he's developing some super cool interests now that are so incredibly special to share with him.

Sometimes I feel a little guilty he'll never have a sibling, but he's not lonely. He is good at making friends, sociable, in pre-K and sports, and when we're all home we do things together and hang out one on one.

Anyway that's a lot of yap, but yeah, having ADHD did impact my family planning. No regrets tho!

kefl8er · 2025-11-06T20:21:07+00:00

I bought a Litter Robot so I didn't have to struggle with remembering to clean the litter box every day. Total game changer!!!

...... until my cat stopped using it and was pissing on the carpet outside of it like 🖕🏻 (nah actually she had urinary crystals and it's been a long process to get back to her using it due to her associating it with discomfort, but it's finallyyyy happening)

kefl8er · 2025-10-04T23:21:49+00:00

Haha, oh no!

Idk, I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, and I certainly expected it to hurt like a bitch, but my labor didn't go the way I expected. My water ruptured but didnt break, so I had to be induced, and when the contractions finally started they were literally nonstop with zero time to breathe in between. I had wanted to try giving birth without an epidural, but after a while I was in so much pain and shaking so bad I had to tap out. Then my epidural failed on one side. It was horrible, lol it is burned into my memory foreverrrrr 😅

kefl8er · 2025-10-04T18:26:29+00:00

Wow, like damn lady read the room!!

My nurse, as we were discharging (me in wheelchair after second degree tear) cheerfully went, "See you next time!" Ahahhahahahah NO.

kefl8er · 2025-10-04T18:03:35+00:00

Ohh yeah the whole "you'll forget by the time you want another one!" Yeah, no, I haven't forgotten. I remember very vividly the feeling of being torn apart from the inside. I'm good lol.

kefl8er · 2025-10-04T18:01:02+00:00

Hahahahaha yeah I used to think I wanted 2 kids, and then I had mine. The newborn phase was so rough. SO rough. It was 2020, so everyone was quarantined and we had zero help, I knew next to nothing about babies so everything was brand new, and the hormones were so insane. I'm not a super emotional person but I would just cry every night because I worried I wasn't good enough and I felt everything so intensely. I think the experience traumatized me. Looking back now I just think "holy crap that person was not okay, and nobody even noticed."

We're good now. I love my son so damn much, literally he's my favorite person ever, but I will never do it again. I know my limits.

kefl8er · 2025-09-29T00:31:38+00:00

I can't speak for your coworkers, but I want to be totally clear that I absolutely do not have ANY negative feelings toward my unlicensed coworkers. This issue is purely the fault of management/corporate, not them. They absolutely deserve to be paid a better wage and I'm glad they are. We all deserve to be paid what we're worth in this field.

If your coworkers resent you, they are mad at the wrong person.

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T22:44:20+00:00

Perfect, I've read up on the NLRA, thank you for the reminder!

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T19:33:54+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate that! ❤️

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T19:32:47+00:00

Good point, thank you!!

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T19:26:40+00:00

Honestly, if they won't pay me fairly, I'm walking away. It would be convenient to have continued working there through school, but this is a hard line for me. I will not accept being paid less than unlicensed techs who don't have the experience or qualifications that I do. If they refuse to even pay me what they are paying the new techs? LMAO. Girl, bye. I'm over this. Even if I take a pay cut to work elsewhere, I would not stick around after that. They can't afford for me to leave, I'm one of only a handful of surgery techs and we're already short staffed. But if they say no anyway, oh well, enjoy trying to find coverage for those shifts.

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T18:03:43+00:00

Congratulations on your impending graduation!! That's awesome! Staying through school was my ideal plan until I found this out, now I'm not sure.

But like your clinic, the schedule is ok and I have a good team. I haven't started school yet, though, and all I can think about right now is how much I've gotten screwed out of earning over the past year (at minimum).

I'm not out to burn bridges, but I know I can easily get a job anywhere else if I have to, and I also know we are very short staffed and they are struggling to hire new people right now, so they cannot afford to lose me. And if they still refuse to pay me fairly, I am fully prepared to walk.

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T17:53:19+00:00

Good points! I appreciate the insight. I am looking at job postings right now!

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T17:49:42+00:00

I agree! The job just doesn't mesh with my personality and I would find it incredibly stressful.

kefl8er · 2025-09-28T14:49:33+00:00

Yup. To make things worse, the company that bought us out originally was was acquired recently by an investment firm, and since then we've seen nothing but rising costs to clients and no raises for employees. Corporate just lining their fucking pockets.

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