Life with ADHD

Chapter 6 - Forgetfulness

One of the things I hate about having ADHD is being forgetful and misplacing things.

So, a couple weeks ago I was getting everything packing up in my car because I was moving out. I had so much on my mind and in the process misplaced my keys. These keys had car key and apartment key on it, so you can see how pretty frustrating that would have been.

I do stuff like that all the time. I'll have something important in my hand and get sidetracked with something else and then later end up panicking because I have misplaced something.

I have discovered that it helps to try to always put that item up where it goes before carrying it with me, but the downside to ADHD is that it is not that simple. We can mean to put something up and then get sidetracked and that thing gets either lost or misplaced.