Thread by @ABCsofADHD

We ADHDers struggle to realize things.

As in, some things don't easily occur to us.

I wanna say 'we don't notice things' but I feel thats misleading. Its not that simple.

Eg, you say hello to me and I would say hello back.

But it might not occur to me to say hello first.

I forgot to eat lunch today.

But see, its not that I actually forgot.

I felt hungry.

It just didnt occur to me to eat to sate my hunger.

Its not that I didn't notice ny hunger. Nor did I forget about food. Nor was I distracted.

I remember when I was younger, this would happen a lot and my mam would ask me, 'why didn't you eat any thing?'.

I would reply, 'I don't know'.

And I still don't.

Why didn't I eat lunch today?

It just didnt occur to me.

It also makes us quite literal.

If you tell us to wash some dishes, you'll likely come back to some clean but wet dishes.

Why didn't we dry and put them away? You didn't tell us to and it never occured to us.

Don't get annoyed at us for doing as we're told.

I also wanna point out the sheer irony that I only realized this aspect of ADHD yesterday.

I had been mulling it over for a while now but it only fully occured to me yesterday.

The irony of our difficulty relalizing stuff making it difficult to realize the issue itself.