Re: The ADHD stay at home mom
Take this all with a grain of salt as I in my super great precoffee functioning put the wrong milk in my coffee this morning and didn’t realize it till halfway through. So great...
I did not struggle until I became an at home mom. All the structure of schooling or work schedules along with the athletics my parents provided kept me keeping my stuff together. Problem was I could not duplicate that structure on my own. I self medicate with lots of caffeine (see pre-ramble to this post). For me it works most days. It took my husband working with me to run our home more like a I would run my job to have success. I still fight against routines and want to follow the butterfly more than a I want to sweep the floor but routines are required for my successful adulting.
I have lists and charts and brain dump books and calendars and ALL of them are essential to my functioning. I am so jealous of people who just know what needs to be done and when without all the extra systems of support.
All that said, I have also learned that a I need to schedule time to follow my shins and distractions. Currently that means I take a few days a year by myself and just wing it! I’m also an introvert so this random open day without responsibilities serves 2 purposes.
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