Reacting to even more ADHD Memes!

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Liver and kidneys both filter out waste. And that's a liver in the meme.

Jessica googling in the middle of shooting a video was far more relatable to me than any of the memes. It normally takes me at least twice the running time to watch anything because I'm continually pausing to google whatever random nonsense happens to pop into my head. lol

Similar to the giraffe thing, I once laid awake for a long while thinking about how a female Bigfoot would be called a Bigfette.

as someone on the autistic spectrum, the "what I think" circles are definitely relatable

I don't even worry about the name thing anymore. When I encounter someone whose name I forgot, i just say "My name is Tory, in case you forgot" and they follow up with their own name - most of the time they HAD forgotten my name as well and are appreciative that I pushed us both past the awkwardness 🙂

"If I don't take care of something the second it pops in, ehhhhhh?" is so so relatable. I've even flagged emails at work and I still don't remember to reply or do what the email says. A co-worker suggested something they do: forward the email to yourself and schedule it to send for a specific time later. That's actually helped me.

Googling the kidney thing mid-video is the most relatable ADHD thing ever.

I heard somewhere that being friends or partners with someone with adhd is like micro dosing on Wikipedia and honestly I can see it 😅

Or, like me, puts bread in toaster, changes breakfast plans, forgets I put bread there only to find it sitting there several days later! Lol 😂😅.

My favorite "deliberately putting something somewhere and forgetting" moment for me was in college. Friend and I rented a locker at the gym, but the locks have to come off for summer break. Come Fall, I'm searching everywhere for the lock. To the point I just go buy a new one. I get to the gym, get ready, and go to put on my gym shoes, when out falls the lock from the year before. I had put it in my gym shoe because those were guaranteed to come to the gym with me 🤦‍♀️

Me: hm I don't feel like doing the dishes. Ooh a new HowtoADHD video! That sounds so much more fun! AND THEN THE VERY FIRST MEME WAS AN INSTANT ATTACK LMAO

I have flat out immediately telling people when I meet them that I will likely forget their name and it's not personal. That usually helps it stick. If they can give me a way to remember it, it will etch itself in my brain. Most people take it well and say they get it!

Another piece of the “where is the thing?” should be “deliberately put in a different special place than the special place I used in the past because I thought the original special place didn’t make sense, and now I remember I made a new special place but can’t remember where the new special place is… only where the old special place was…” It’s happened to me too many times…

The laundry one is so accurate! And I also fall into the “wash-wash-wash” category sometimes. 😅

3:17 I hate this aspect of ADHD. The entirety of my working memory is consumed with making absolutely sure I DON'T FORGET THE THING, and so nothing gets done because I can't spare the brain energy. This was particularly bad when my work schedule was 5-6 days a week, because it essentially meant that a) I couldn't do anything before work because I couldn't risk missing my work shift, and b) I'd spend so much mental energy at work masking and making up for my neurodivergence that I had none left do do anything useful after work. So essentially, only the "emergencies" (no clean clothes! no clean dishes! bills are due TODAY!) got done, and literally nothing else. I was living in a state of constant burnout, simply because I had to go to work every day. I recently was able to change my schedule to 3-4 longer shifts a week, so I get several days off now, which has helped somewhat. But it's still a significant challenge on the days I go to work. 7:02 This drives me crazy, too. The fact that I can forget what I'm doing WHILE I'm doing it just boggles my brain. It boggles the brains of other people, too. We can be having a conversation, and sometimes I'll get interrupted, and someone will notice and ask what I was about to say. I just have to tell them, "Sorry, I've had like 20 thoughts since then, and I have literally no idea."

7:36 ADHD is worse than that: sometimes the response time is negative. I often anticipate things minutes or days in advance, and some of my tasks have been pending for… years (not a joke).

10:59 I've seen this meme before, and it's SO TRUE. I hired a professional organizer who specializes in ADHD a couple of years ago, and the first five minutes of the appointment sum up my ability to keep track of things perfectly. She suggested we start by organizing my school stuff, and I spent a solid two minutes looking around my 300 square foot studio apartment for my bright blue school backpack. 😂 The biggest piece of advice she gave me during that session was to assign something a place in the location where you use it. Even implementing that one bit of advice has made my life so much easier

The note about telling people "thank you for your patience" had me dying cause I've been doing that for a while now with potential freelance clients cause I miss the first time they reach out and then they follow up a while afterwards and I try not to be so apologetic cause I've been told that's too timid and so I try to be more assertive but I say it so much that hearing it from someone else was a mix of getting called out and vindication that I'm not the only one to do it ... also learning about the period key on my keyboard after typing this comment... that was great :P

When I was diagnosed with ADHD and ASD back in 2020, your channel was recommended to me by the psychologist to help me understand ADHD as I had no idea about it. You have been a massive source of information, thank you.