• Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    As you get older the existential dread of not getting things done fades. I’m fact, I’m now proud that I blew off putting things away for so long that I’ve moved five times and I still have stuff from those boxes I packed during the first move still in the same boxes 👍

    Obviously those things will come with me to the next home. I can’t just throw away old cables! They don’t go bad! Some day I’m going to be the hero that still has the proprietary cable that connects a specific model year, early 90s vintage mini video camera to RCA and composite connectors!

    • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      Some day I’m going to be the hero that still has the proprietary cable that connects a specific model year, early 90s vintage mini video camera to RCA and composite connectors!

      If you’re me someone will find the Grail cable at the estate sale, because no one I know needs it and also I don’t talk to them anyway.

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I actually had to find that cable this year because my mom wanted to digitize old home movies.

      Definitely a justification to keep the rest.

  • xpinchx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    Hey ADHD friends, I recommend the self help book Atomic Habits. I’m not perfect and neither is the book, but I’m make genuine progress on a lot of long term goals using some things I learned in there. It’s not specifically for ADHD but it helped me get over the lack of apparent progress when I apply myself because I document what I’m doing to work towards them.

    I’m still a fucking disaster tho.

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      10 months ago

      You might, but keep in mind that the symptoms of adhd are things that everyone experiences. It turns into a disorder when you can’t control it and it is so frequent that it starts negatively impacting your life.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    aADHD (advanced ADHD, or v2) is when you grow old and the nervous tax for actively managing it just becomes too much.

    I haven’t made a pact in a decade, bcs I know better now, I won’t be able to enforce it. Maybe a non-obligatory, gentle plea, like to perhaps at some point during next few years hang that mirror in the hallway that I pass several times a day & the drill and screw (and even a measured out mark on the wall) are already set there, just waiting for me to pick it up & do the 2 minute thing.

    At some magical moment I will have to do it, most probably amid some other fairly important task or when already late to go somewhere.

    What I’m saying is I didn’t advanceADHD, just gave up, living a simple random life, relaxed, unbothered (except to keep in mind not to step in the drill).

  • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I wonder how it is that people seem to have tons of hyper focus, aka flow state. I’ve had that before, but it’s more of a once a week kind of thing. And when I’m in a flow state, something as simple as responding to my wife asking “what are you doing?” absolutely destroys it.