Hi, as a guy who has neither but is curious about both - wouldn’t this align more with autism than ADHD? If that’s not necessarily the case, I would love to hear how an ADHD person’s mind would categorize this type of thinking, as it doesn’t quite fit into my understanding of ADHD.
For my part, the struggle is real. I always dress up 5 minutes before I have to go. And I mostly feel underdressed, either because all good clothes are in the laundry or I cannot decide what to wear.
Worth noting that a lot of ASD and ADHD “symptoms” actually overlap! But for me with ADHD it’s a case of having an outfit in mind, then if I can’t find it or it’s in the wash or something, and having to then pick something different, it’ll take me a looong time to figure out what to wear. Trying lots of different combinations and comparing them to the outfit I originally wanted to wear.
I can totally see eventually just giving up being an option once I’m fed up of trying on clothes or lose interest in whatever the event was. (If it wasn’t that important I be present anyway).
One of the core issues with ADHD is a thing called Executive Fatigue. Basically what this means is you have the ability to make only so many decisions about your life in a given day. If you run out, then you need to spend the majority of the rest of the day isolating to help your brain relax. It’s not that someone would necessarily be obsessed with the idea of an outfit, but rather it’s the idea that they had an expectation that reality has now violated. This requires further mental energy to revaluate the situation. Often times all of that energy is already spent making the plan, so when something goes wrong there is no more energy left to come up with a new plan. It’s hard to describe and many people use different words for it but common terms include “out of spoons,” “brain fog,” or “hitting a wall.”
Ah. I now know why me, with stupid ammounts of ADHD, doesn’t have this one:
I’m a dirty punk. “What’ll I wear today? Yesterdays pants, clean undies, any shirt*, and my shoes. Same as every day.”
*temperture dependant
The only decision I have to actually make is “long or short sleeve” and technically the decision is already made, I just have to check the temp which will tell me which one I need.
Hi, as a guy who has neither but is curious about both - wouldn’t this align more with autism than ADHD? If that’s not necessarily the case, I would love to hear how an ADHD person’s mind would categorize this type of thinking, as it doesn’t quite fit into my understanding of ADHD.
You’re very much right
For my part, the struggle is real. I always dress up 5 minutes before I have to go. And I mostly feel underdressed, either because all good clothes are in the laundry or I cannot decide what to wear.
Worth noting that a lot of ASD and ADHD “symptoms” actually overlap! But for me with ADHD it’s a case of having an outfit in mind, then if I can’t find it or it’s in the wash or something, and having to then pick something different, it’ll take me a looong time to figure out what to wear. Trying lots of different combinations and comparing them to the outfit I originally wanted to wear.
I can totally see eventually just giving up being an option once I’m fed up of trying on clothes or lose interest in whatever the event was. (If it wasn’t that important I be present anyway).
One of the core issues with ADHD is a thing called Executive Fatigue. Basically what this means is you have the ability to make only so many decisions about your life in a given day. If you run out, then you need to spend the majority of the rest of the day isolating to help your brain relax. It’s not that someone would necessarily be obsessed with the idea of an outfit, but rather it’s the idea that they had an expectation that reality has now violated. This requires further mental energy to revaluate the situation. Often times all of that energy is already spent making the plan, so when something goes wrong there is no more energy left to come up with a new plan. It’s hard to describe and many people use different words for it but common terms include “out of spoons,” “brain fog,” or “hitting a wall.”
Ah. I now know why me, with stupid ammounts of ADHD, doesn’t have this one:
I’m a dirty punk. “What’ll I wear today? Yesterdays pants, clean undies, any shirt*, and my shoes. Same as every day.”
*temperture dependant
The only decision I have to actually make is “long or short sleeve” and technically the decision is already made, I just have to check the temp which will tell me which one I need.