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_Mortal t1_jdctmmj wrote

LPT: just keep your place clean and tidy all the time. That way you don't have to panic clean your slob life.

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Independent-Case-306 t1_jdcx6jc wrote

Ah yes, the ol' 'permanent clean' strategy - it's either a genius life hack, or a sign that I need therapy.

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_Mortal t1_jdcxevq wrote

Therapy. Just pick your shit up when you're done.

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SpacedOutTrashPanda t1_jddfpon wrote

My ADHD brain did not register this.

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Kirdei t1_jddzzl9 wrote

Protip: if you need to clean your place, invite friends or family over so you'll panic clean or at least shove everything into the FORBIDDEN ROOM before they arrive.

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fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdelocd wrote

Judging by the negative comments I think the real LPT is: don’t be disabled, don’t have children, don’t have a busy life. Everything’s easier that way and your house can be clean enough for random internet strangers to approve of you! Really though, I would be happy to turn my ADHD off so I could manage life and having a clean house 24/7. Unfortunately life just doesn’t work that way for some of us

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Kirdei t1_jdem2yp wrote

Unfortunately not. I legitimately can't understand how my mom kept a clean house when I was growing up.

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fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdemooj wrote

I suspect my parents both have undiagnosed adhd, our house was rarely clean growing up, its a foreign concept to me

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Kirdei t1_jden20u wrote

I suspect I have undiagnosed ADHD, but my doctor didn't take it seriously when I brought it up. Prescribed me some meds, but they were priced way outside what I could afford. Best I can do in my house is mildly controlled chaos.

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fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdensg8 wrote

Adhd is such a struggle because it has huge impacts in every area of ones life yet its almost never taken seriously. I had a few teachers growing up suggest I get tested but my mom was weirdly against it for whatever reason. I didn’t get diagnosed until last year at 20 years old, medication is going okay, its not perfect but at the very least it has almost cured my crippling anxiety that resulted from 20 years of trying to be normal and failing :)

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Kirdei t1_jdevsn0 wrote

I'm glad it's helping! My doc said I could get tested, but it'd cost about $1000 and so I'm resigned to just dealing with it for now.

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SpacedOutTrashPanda t1_jde09uk wrote

Haha for real though! I have the closet of doom haha works the same as a forbidden room but much smaller space to cram things into.

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Kirdei t1_jde0o5n wrote

My wife and I had the Room of Doom for years. We moved to a new place last year and I said we needed to not have a Room of Doom. She agreed.

We have a Room of Doom again.

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Brownie-UK7 t1_jdd8jr9 wrote

flip a coin. heads you clean up, tails you don't. but cleanup before flipping the coin - it's a win win.

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