You may be ADHD if...

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You don't like doing nothing, because you won't know when you're finished.

You don't like doing something, because you won't know when it starts.

You've lived in the same place for years but don't have a "spot" to keep your handbag by the door.
About 15 years ago someone suggested you choose a consistent place.
You just remembered that, but it wouldn't happen anyway.
You'd rather search all over the house every time you leave.

Your neighbour brings your purse to you when you get home from work.
They say you left it on the driveway in the morning.
You hadn't noticed.

You fall head-first into your recycle bin trying to reach something at the bottom.
You break bones.
You still want the thing that was in the bottom of it.

"Why didn't you tip the bin?", asks your doctor.



You hadn't thought of that.

You haven't started this year's to-do list because you can't find a pen.

You quit a job after six years because they spelled your name wrong.

You're kinda thinking about doing your New Year's Resolution from 2021.
It's the same one from 2020.
You might not be able to do it, because you're busy thinking up one for 2024.

You discover there's groceries in the back of your car.
You don't remember buying them.
You have to throw them out because they got frozen or boiled by the weather.

You having a knitting project from 2011 but you didn't finish.
It just needs some buttons sewn on.

You've started about five knitting projects since then. ^

The inside of your dining room buffet contains:

Childhood crafts and memoranda
Sentimental dishes
About 10 pieces of cookware you've never used
Adult colouring books
Wax crayons and coloured pencils (two shoeboxes full)
An electric pencil sharpener
Actually two ^
No pencils
Charcoal for sketching
A three-hole punch
A glue gun in a melted bag, but you can't find the glue
Assorted office supplies
Batteries
A bag of silica and rice for wet phone emergencies
A turkey platter
CDs for installing Windows 1998 to your work computer from 1998
Random electronic cables that you can't identify
Gift wrap and gift bags
About 20 full-sized lightbulbs you'll never use
A 3" stack of ancestry papers, mostly duplicates
Your pets' medical records (no specific order for four pets)
A cake stand
A cupcake holder thing with a lid
and
The bonnet your nan knit when you were born


^ You do have an office desk elsewhere but that's full of photo albums
^ And you have an art studio area elsewhere but that's full of hockey equipment

Every single time you come in the house from the car, you come in wearing sunglasses.
You have to go back out to get your regular glasses.
You go back out in bare feet because it's too much work to put your boots on again.
Or you can't find your boots in that ten second span of time.

You totally forgot you have a major appointment tomorrow.
That's because you forgot it was January.
Or 2023.

Your wall calendar is from December 2019 but you make it work.

Your partner stares at you in bemused disbelief.
You don't notice unless they say your name, because you forget to look at them.

You either have unnecessary multiples of items, or none.

You always take two when there's a handout paper.
You hate paper and can't organise it.

You leave your Christmas stuff up for months.
It's mostly because you can't remember where you stored the non-Christmas replacements.