#Bad Memory

[redysetdare]

I need people to understand how difficult alarms are when you have ADHD.

Alarms are only helpful if you do the thing when they go off, which is not easy when you have ADHD. if I am in the middle of something when my alarm goes off, chances are I cannot switch my task immediately. Hyperfocus can make it difficult to change to a different task because I worry about losing the momentum i have. I say I will do the task after I finish my current one because if I don't finish my current task I will forget what I was doing. I snooze the alarm. It goes off every 5 minutes for 15 minutes before it stops allowing me to snooze it and suddenly it's dismissed. I never switch tasks for the alarm.

"set more alarms" I have. but then suddenly I have an alarm every half hour. Screaming and begging for me to switch my task. they all get snoozed. I'm busy doing other things. I cannot drop everything to do the one task I am trying to remind myself to do. suddenly it is the end of the day. the tasks aren't done. I say I'll do it tomorrow. Rinse and repeat.

And people tell me I'm not trying. I just need to do it when the alarm goes off. That's not how ADHD works. I cant control where my focus is that easily. it takes a lot of energy to pull myself away from something that i could forget after doing the task the reminder was for. Switching tasks can throw everything off and leave me less productive then before. this isn't even to mention the fact that not every task can have a timer. some tasks can't just be relegated to a time.

Please believe us when we tell you that alarms don't work. Don't assume we haven't tried them. I have so many alarms set to remind me of things. I'm ignoring an alarm right now to finish writing this less I lose my thought process. We are trying. We have used alarms. They don't always work. We aren't being difficult. We want it to be easy.

#adhd #actually adhd #actuallyadhd #memory #bad memory

[csuitebitches]

how to develop a brilliant memory - pdf

#Books #memory #improve memory #bad memory #c suite #powerful woman #ceo aesthetic #strong women #personal growth #that girl #getting your life together #balance #productivity

[voided-peach]

Bonus panel

Some angst about my shitty memory

#angst #dark art #dark themes #bad memory #my art #my characters #artists on tumblr #illustration #sketch #character art #art #original character #digital art #digital sketch #digital painting #art study #comic

[gayandconfusedmotherfucker]

Have y’all ever had a “memory” that you couldn’t tell if you made up or not, but scares you to your very core? One that, if it was a real memory, is terrifying that it actually happened to you? Cause I have a few but one keeps haunting me.

Cause I have this huge fear of old men. I’m not sure where exactly it came from. But I had a few creepy old men in my family. So I cant tell if it’s from them actually doing something to me, or the fear of them doing something to me created this memory. The thing is, I could ask the person that helped me after. However, I cant trust if they remember it at all or if they would even tell me the truth about it. So I will never actually know if it was real or not. It keeps me up at night sometimes, dreading that it was real.

#it would explain a lot #scared #i’m scared #im so scared #terrified #terrifying #fake memory #fakememory #fake memory? #memory #bad memory #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqplus #trans #lgbtq+ #transgender #lgbtqia #please help #please lmao #idk #but idk #was it real

[pageofheartdj]

To people with bad memory, do you experience existential crisis?

I barely remember my life aside from separate not connected moments. And with aging and my life getting shorter... I still feel like I barely lived. And it freaks me out. I am losing time without living it.

#bad memory #existential crisis

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

I DELETED MY OLD ACCOUNT BY MISTAKE BUT IM BACK TO HAUNT YOU MOTHERFUCKER MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :3

i dont know who you are

#not to sound like a dick #bad memory

[allisonzoeann-]

He told me I was the most lovely looking girl he’s ever seen. I found downloaded on my laptop a link of thousands of photos of ladies with zero likeness to me He said that he learned the lesson, laughed it off as i felt lonely. He had another lapse of judgement, and I dyed my long hair darker to not be a liability. He told me we can talk more and try therapeutic things. I tried to keep tabs of transgressions, only I would have no one to tell them to. He would turn the tables, take our troubles to others, something that I never thought to do. He would secretly tape me as if I was a traitor, while I didn’t know we were on different teams. He told me he could comfort me or show me compassion if I need him to back off. I tried to communicate an apology calmly during confrontation, coming off as cold and callous. He was content with being combative, committed to coerce me to combust. He followed me to the car, chastised me, called me crazy, and I was crying so hard I’d cough. He told me we could take pictures at the pumpkin patch. I know he’s plagued with bad memory, but refuses pen down any plans. He will never come home when he says, postponing promises because it’s prefered and he can. He perseveres without pause, and I was put in a place with a wristband and gown to match.

Allison Morgan

#poetry #poet #poem #heartbreak #losing someone #losing youself #lies #lying #relationships #relationship #bpd #forgotten about #broken promises #promise #promises #psych ward #grippy sock vacation #bad memory #forget #forgot #broken hearted #darvo #villian #secretly film #secretly record #record #secret #secrets #compassion #mental health

[daedriyth]

My Memory Is Horrible (Please Help)

I follow a simblr, and I can't remember the name. They play rotationally, but they share the stories of all of them. The last post that I saw was about the Pancakes household. They have a nonbinary older child, and I thhiiiiink 2 younger children? I follow almost 600 tumblr pages, please help me out here. I was talking to @changingplumbob about them but for the life of me cannot remember their name.

I'm working on making a masterlist of all the story blogs I follow on both here and Twitter so I can refer back for questions like this I hate my memory :/

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 stories #bad memory

[mirnsey]

Bro, as a person with a goldfish equivalent of a memory, tumblr is like the worse place i can be. I come here to check my notifs and get to writing, and i accidentally see one writing i like.. and then another.. and then another.. and.. it’s already 10 a’clock???

Like—let me stay on track once

#ఌmirney’s moronic workఌ #writing #domreader #msub #꧁i should shut up꧂ #oneshots #sub character #dom reader #fanfic #femreader #goldfish #memory #bad memories #bad memory #terrible memory #like #actually such a bad memory #i think #i should get it checked out

[blood-generation]

thanks to my shitty memory, I have to manually note down all my mutals so I dont forget their names.

or at least the people who followed me.. and I followed back. LOOK EVEN IF WE INTERACTED ONCE IF U FOLLOW ME U BET U WILL GET NOTED DOWN

#mutals #notes #aughhh #bad memory

[redysetdare]

People will always say "Write it down so you don't forget" And I tell them that won't work. That still requires that I remember that I wrote it down. it requires that I remember to look at the note I wrote to remember what i wrote down.

and they will say "Put it someplace you'll be forced to read/see it" And i tell them that won't work. The thing with my ADHD specifically is that it is trained to not notice things. the background is the background. If I'm not actively looking for something in the background then it does not register in my vision. If I put the note on my computer, instead of reading the note my brain is like "something is stopping me from doing the task so I will get rid of the thing stopping me from doing the task" and then suddenly the note is moved and unread. if i hang the note on a door or the fridge then my brain will not read the note on the door or the fridge because my brain is focused on doing a different task, usually exiting the door or looking in the fridge. why would i read a note on the fridge if my task is inside the fridge? I'll pin the note on my phone notifications but then it gets drowned out by my other notifications or i don't check my phone until it's too late.

Then they say "Set alarms" and i say that won't work because If I'm in the middle of a task then I'll snooze or dismiss it without ever reading it because I'm busy doing a different task. Sometimes i do read the alarm and I'll be like "I'll just finish this first" and then suddenly it's been hours and I still haven't done what the alarm was reminding me of. Some reminders don't have a specific time for me to need to remember them and so how can i set an alarm for something that doesn't have a time? how can i guess when I'll have free time to set an alarm reminder at that exact time?

And then they get mad at me. they say "you're not trying hard enough obviously" or "You're making this more difficult than it needs to be!" they get annoyed that I say their advice doesn't work. And I want to say "How do you think I feel?" because this isn't any easier for me. I'm the one living with these memory problems. I'm the one struggling with switching tasks. You don't have to live with this; I have to live with it every day of my life. forever.

#text #adhd #actuallyadhd #memory #memory issues #bad memory #this can go for anyone with memory issues #i only mention my adhd once in this post because it relates to why a certain advice doesn't work #but i know there are a whole bunch of non-adhd ppl with memory issues who probably have the same probelm #my memory issues aren't even solely a adhd problem tbh #my adhd just makes it worse #i just...am tired of people giving advice when i never asked for it #then getting upset when i say their advice doesn't work #and then acting like i have no right to complain about how upsetting my memory issues are because 'you aren't trying to fix it' #as if memory problems can be so easily fixed.

[wildshadowtamer]

shoutout to the people with memory issues who’re trying to get diagnosed for other things but can’t remember if they’ve experienced listed symptoms, i get u

#trying to figure out if im dyscalulic but i havent done maths without a calculator in years and my brain wont let me remember #uh lets see whats some memory disorders #DID #ADHD #Autism #Amnesia #Memory Issues #bad memory #diagnoses #diagnosis #neurodivergent

[cxcewg]

yall does anyone know the meme like about the sf 23

and everything it hates

there was a list and charles was on it

gah i cannot find it help a girl out

#charles leclerc #scuderia ferrari #help me out yall #bad memory

[acornmaybe]

im so tired of forgetting

#>turned on phone #>distracted by friends message #>forget why open phone #>make this post #acorn original #memory issues #bad memory

[pftones3482]

I like when someone reblogs a post I reblogged and they say "prev tags I agree" and I have to go back into my own reblog of the post to find out wtf I even said to begin with

#it doesnt even help half the time if i read the post cause like #bad memory #im a reblog machine i move too fast and have too many thoughts to keep track of #anyway if you get this far into reading these tags #you should tell me whether you agree or disagree with the concept of white sauce on pizza

[sspacegodd]

I keep forgetting how bad my memory is.

#bad memory #forgetful