Following my post about tackling those pesky lingering items on your to-do list, a reader wrote to me with a question about laundry. I don’t struggle to actually put it in the washer and dryer, but when it comes to putting it away I’m stuck. I currently have three baskets of clothes in my bedroom […]
Tag: adult ADHD
Why tasks linger on your to-do list (and how to check them off)
I hate when I let a simple task languish on my to-do list for months, or even years. Yet I’ve done it more times than I can count. These tasks usually aren’t life-and-death important. Others might tell me not to worry about it. I think that’s why it bothers me so much. My failure to […]
Newton’s First Law of ADHD
ADHD is a misnomer. We don’t have an attention deficit, we have a dysregulation. Many of us struggle for years trying to make sense of what that means. In some ways, it boils down to simple physics. We ADHDers have a lot of inertia. My high school physics teacher delighted in long acronyms. Every once […]