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“I’ll remember” is the ADHD demon talking. You won’t remember. Write it down.

bold of you to assume i’ll remember where i wrote it, or even that i wrote it

Visual exhaustion is another symptom of ADHD, which means that if we see something enough times (or we see enough instances of something), it fades into background noise and we fail to notice it.

This is why a lot of ADHD people can stand living surrounded by mess/clutter, because it’s just visual background noise to us. We don’t even notice it anymore.

So if we write something down and see the note stuck up somewhere a lot – or if we write a LOT of somethings down and have a lot of notes hanging around – then we’re even less likely to think of/remember the thing because it’s just part of the scenery now.

ADHD is the Catch-22 of brains.

A very good thing to know about ADHD. Don’t fall into the trap.

A lot of folks in the comments are talking about writing on themselves or setting phone/calendar reminders. Your mileage may vary on those. You may also want to consider ways to set a habit of referring back to a planner or similar every day/hour.

To get those brain juices flowing, check out this Buzzfeed article on different ways folks with ADHD stay on top of things.

Readers, let us know if you have specific advice for this situation!

OH MY GOD so THAT’S why i managed to forget homework even when my assignments were written in sharpie all over my hands and arms?? or why I’d still forget to take morning pills when i wrote huge ass reminders on my bathroom mirror in expo marker??? or why laying my glasses on top of my pill box also made me forget and i had to start setting my pill box ON TOP of my glasses and set a rule for myself that i cant put them on until i take my pills just to remember?????? oh my god my life suddenly makes a little more sense

I KNEW THERE MUST BE A REASON MY MOM’S POST IT NOTES SUGGESTIONS FAILED!!

I seriously abuse the alarm function in Outlook at work. I need to find something as easy to set and difficult to ignore in my personal life.

I like to send emails from my google account to my work account when I really have to remember something.  Since I check my work email at set times a day, it gives me a periodic reminder that isn’t something I can easily ignore.