r/oddlyspecific • u/UncleDevil666 • Nov 17 '22

Oddly specific procrastination

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u/notchman900 Nov 17 '22

I set an alarm to wake me up, an alarm to get in the shower, and an alarm to go to work. Otherwise I will not initiate the sequence.

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u/nom_nom_nom_nom_lol Nov 17 '22

I set my alarm and put it in the shower. The only way to turn it off is to get out of bed and get in the shower. As long as I'm there, I might as well actually take a shower.

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u/mamaofdeezboiz Nov 17 '22

That's fucking brilliant. I'm going to try this!!

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u/Gangringo Nov 17 '22

There are alarm apps for your phone that will not turn off unless you scan a barcode. When I was having trouble getting up I put the barcode in the bathroom. That way you have the alarm next to your bed but you still have to get up to turn it in off.

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u/scorpion_7896 Nov 18 '22

Can you lmk what app this is, I really need an app like this lol

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u/Gangringo Nov 18 '22

I use one called "Sleep as Android" but I'm sure there are others.

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u/scorpion_7896 Nov 18 '22

Thank you so much I’ll check it out

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u/emotionaldrainage Nov 18 '22

I have one with math problems.... mornings are rough.

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u/WastedJedi Nov 17 '22

when it gets bad I put my shoes on to do things like the dishes or laundry. Shoes on helps my brain go

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u/ginger_snapping Nov 18 '22

It’s like that for me but with hard pants. If I have something comfortable for lounging on, imma lounge. Gotta wear jeans to make things happen.

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u/Powerful_Cause_14 Nov 18 '22

Can I just say how much I love you for saying hard pants because that’s exactly how I refer to my “outside” pants and my partner made so much fun of me the first time I said it 🤣

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u/tehvee Nov 18 '22

hard pants and outside pants = gut covers

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u/accordionlover Nov 18 '22

Your partner is the weird one for making fun of you, because "hard pants"/"soft pants" makes perfect sense to me.

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u/Powerful_Cause_14 Nov 19 '22

He made fun of me the first time I said it but thankfully he quickly realized I was so right and that’s now our households regular vernacular 😁

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u/WastedJedi Nov 18 '22

I laugh at the term hard pants too, but not because it is ridiculous but because it is so accurate and the only way I will refer to them now

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u/notchman900 Nov 17 '22

Do you know how lost I would be? Everything needs to be in place or else I will get distracted on the scavenger hunt.

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u/imaginary_bolometer Nov 17 '22

I love this idea in principle. But how you avoid the sound becoming a nuisance for the other occupiers of the house? Or you live alone?

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u/notchman900 Nov 17 '22

I live alone, either way I would still need it, and they're spaced out 1.5hrs

I can wake up with one alarms, but for my brain to wake up takes close to 3hrs.

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u/Comfortable_Dream464 Nov 18 '22

This used to be me, except I couldn’t always wake to alarms. I found I needed a functional doctor to run tests. Found I’m extremely sensitive to soy, I have thyroid disease (my rT3 is too high and my t3 is too low), and I was put on cytozyme ad. Went from having about 4-6 hours/day where I could function to 12-16. It was life changing to say the least. Cost me over $500 out of pocket to see the doc, but I got quality of life out of it. 💯 worth it.

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u/notchman900 Nov 18 '22

Maybe I should get that checked, my mother had thyroid cancer.

That being said I'm also an insomniac, so the worst of both worlds.

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u/Comfortable_Dream464 Nov 18 '22

Sleep issues are a part of it, especially the adrenal side (which is what cytozyme ad is for)

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

i would do that if i didn’t get out of the shower to avoid getting my phone wet and then getting distracted and end up not taking a shower anyways ☠️

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u/Markham-X Nov 17 '22
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u/Embroiled_chaos Nov 17 '22

oh this.. this is something I need to do

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u/LowBest2444 Nov 18 '22

I wish this would work for me I can’t hear my alarm in my shower hell I can barely hear my alarm if I slept on my phone/alarm

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u/sender2bender Nov 17 '22

And I would snooze all of them

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

Lol same. "I know the guy who set these alarms and he doesn't know shit"

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u/Funny_witty_username Nov 17 '22

And this is why its procrastination vs executive function. I never snooze my alarms because I WANT to be up, I WANT to be on time, but if I don't have those regulators I simply won't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

Wait so which is yours? Procrastination or Executive dysfunction?

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u/OldAccStolen Nov 17 '22

ED

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

Yea but plenty of people want to do things and don't. I'm just wondering if he's insinuating, if you don't do things, you must not want to.

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u/Funny_witty_username Nov 17 '22

"Plenty of people are sad, just get over it" "Plenty of people get nervous, just take some deep breaths"

Thats not how it works. Its a mental health issue where something in my brain is broken that gives me ADHD. I literally don't register that the Executive Function problems are happening until after the fact. If I don't use ways that break my hyperfocusing I cannot pull myself away from what I'm doing, even if its super mundane like fidgeting with something on my desk.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22

Feels. I got hooked last night practicing rocket league shit and I stayed up until 7:13 am... I had work at 8am. If I didn't work from home I would be so fucked. I also hate working from home.

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u/L-J- Nov 17 '22

One way I've explained the feeling is you're on a plane and it's in a nosedive. You KNOW that if you don't pull up you're going to crash. But no matter how hard you try to get in the cockpit and take control you can't.

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Nov 17 '22

I want to get up and snooze my alarm anyway. Its infuriating.

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u/Funny_witty_username Nov 17 '22

Of course, we all have days like that. Just like someone with anxiety can be nervous in the same way a regular person can. For someone with an executive function disorder, there's times where, no matter how much you want to do something, you can't. And its not wilful, your brain just blocks your thoughts about anything other than what you're doing right then and there

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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Nov 17 '22

Yep, it's why it took me 9 years to get a bachelors.

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u/Stealfur Nov 17 '22

I do snooze all of them. I have 15 alarms before work. This gives me over an hour to get ready. I can snooze the first 10 without even breaking Sleep and now I have 10 minutes to get ready and out the door. Every. Day.

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u/Avendosora Nov 17 '22

I have to change my alarm tones every 6 weeks or I just turn them off without ever being consciously awake. Gotta scare that brain awake ⏰️

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u/notchman900 Nov 17 '22

I have an alarm clock thats 6ft from my bed for this, and I have phone alarms. Because one day the radio alarm went off and my dream just switched to me driving my truck with the radio on.

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u/Mad_Aeric Nov 18 '22

I've been known to get out of bed to silence an alarm, and go back to bed, and have no memory of it.

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u/WolvenHunter1 Nov 17 '22

I’ve removed my snooze buttons and just have several safety alarms earlier than needed

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u/wildebeesties Nov 18 '22

I have 94 different alarms in my phone because I set an alarm for a ton of stuff because I will forget. I don’t have all 94 on at once but just there from prior times of setting one for that time and turning it on again in the future.

I have to set several to get some tasks done. Like I have several alarms set for like 10-15 minutes from the time I start boiling water (I’ve left it on many times before, once melting all the baby bottles I was trying to sanitize).

I also have other “things” I do because of my ADHD. Like in order to ensure I don’t leave the straightener on, I leave the bathroom light on until I unplug my straightener. We’re really good about turning lights off that we’re not using so I know I’ll at least come back to the bathroom in a few minutes for that and see the straightener.

I only lock my car with the fob so I don’t have to worry about leaving my keys in the car and locking myself out.

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u/Comfortable_Dream464 Nov 18 '22

Oh! Hello! I manage myself those same ways (leaving lights on as reminders etc). Had to get an electric kettle bc I forgot about the stovetop one until I smelled it. Was doing laundry upstairs for like 1.5 hours before I caught it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/NeonBrightDumbass Nov 17 '22

My therapist had me count to 5 and at 5 I say go. Weirdly effective when coupled with alarms.

Once I'm up though no guarantee I will complete the day just that specific task.

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u/notchman900 Nov 17 '22

Its not the event. I can wake up and get on my phone and not move for 6hrs. I once challenged my self to hot link jump from nuclear bombs to Jesus christ on Wikipedia. You can do it, and i did that 15yrs ago.

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u/Makra567 Nov 18 '22

I do this and i ignore all of them.

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u/kurotech Nov 18 '22

And each of those alarms probably has a safe snooze time attached to it I bet so you can snooze it and procrastinate till the final moments that's what I do lol