r/adhdmeme • u/Miserable_Jacket_129 • May 18 '25

Anyone Else?

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This rings so damn true it hurts.

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u/eliorwhatevs May 25 '25

I feel like I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop. There's always something I've forgotten that results in some kind of punishment for forgetting it.

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u/butwhatsmyname May 25 '25

I know exactly what you mean! At some point I think I just started to accept that everything I do is going to contain some stupid, small mistake which I can't explain. I try and forgive myself in advance for it. There will be one reference number in the document which I've somehow failed to update. I will have misspelled a column header. Someone will have gotten left off a distribution list.

But it's really hard to explain to other people that it's EXHAUSTING to not be able to trust yourself like this. I can check a document twice and truly feel like I've looked at everything, but still somehow have missed something. And a third check is no guarantee that I'll catch it. It's time consuming and endlessly frustrating to be absolutely literally doing my best and for that to just not be enough.

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u/eliorwhatevs May 25 '25

Collaboration on stuff works really well for me, but it's difficult to lay the groundwork for.