Until: “I can’t start the dishwasher until there are more dishes in there.” (You can just start the dishwasher without a full load and you’ll have clean dishes for later.)
Secret rules: “You should only run a dishwasher when it’s full for maximum efficiency.” (It’s your dishwasher and you can use it as inefficiently as you wish, you dont have to think about efficiency all the time. If you want clean dishes later, start the washer now no matter how much it’ll clean.)
I read “Organizing for adhd individuals” (paraphrasing title, it’s been a sec. ill find the real title later if you’re interested) and the author makes a good point about how little unspoken assumptions get amplified by ADHD and add small costs that add up to killing our energy. The author made a point that if you design systems that don’t require you to think about these small things, organizing gets easier.
Her example was cleaning and putting away socks: her clients dread having to match socks to put them into a drawer, so they hold off on doing that. Her solution was to make it so that assumption isnt even in play: just buy socks that all look the same. Then you can just dump them into the sock drawer unmatched. (Personally, i just decided that I dont care that I wear non-matching socks. And my life is better for it!)
Yeah, as someone with ADHD, seeing memes like this and then going in the comments to see OP call this “in fact, one of the most common symptoms of ADHD” makes me understand why professionals have issues with ADHD-centered content.
There’s way too many people in these comments going “uh oh, I’m in this meme” when its like “Nono, there’s plenty of reasons you could be doing this without ADHD being involved. Please talk to a professional to rule those out first.”