fairlycertainoctopus
fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdemooj wrote
Reply to comment by Kirdei in LPT: Anytime that you are going to ask someone over to your place (either a date or a friend), always clean your place before asking. If they say yes, it’s already clean. If they say no, at least you can feel happy about a clean space. by Snow5Penguin
I suspect my parents both have undiagnosed adhd, our house was rarely clean growing up, its a foreign concept to me
fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdelocd wrote
Reply to comment by Kirdei in LPT: Anytime that you are going to ask someone over to your place (either a date or a friend), always clean your place before asking. If they say yes, it’s already clean. If they say no, at least you can feel happy about a clean space. by Snow5Penguin
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
fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdekntv wrote
Reply to LPT: Anytime that you are going to ask someone over to your place (either a date or a friend), always clean your place before asking. If they say yes, it’s already clean. If they say no, at least you can feel happy about a clean space. by Snow5Penguin
To all the negative comments, if you keep your house clean 24/7 GOOD FOR YOU (although I don’t believe you’ve never had to scramble to tidy up before a guest comes over) but many of us can’t for one reason or another. Mental health, having children (or pets), physical disabilities, busy schedules, etc can make it almost impossible for some of us to keep our houses clean all the time. Personally Im a university student with adhd, two cats, and an adhd partner, our house is almost never perfectly clean and thats OKAY there’s no need to talk down to people who may be struggling a little, you’re not better than someone just because your house is cleaner than theirs. If you think this post is stupid than its not for you so keep scrolling. OP Im sorry people are so rude, I for one appreciated this tip.
fairlycertainoctopus t1_jdensg8 wrote
Reply to comment by Kirdei in LPT: Anytime that you are going to ask someone over to your place (either a date or a friend), always clean your place before asking. If they say yes, it’s already clean. If they say no, at least you can feel happy about a clean space. by Snow5Penguin
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 :)