*lip smack* Hey y'all. If you follow me for any length of time, you know that I am ADHD! Like, it is bad!
So, um, because I was late diagnosed at age 25, and uh, wasn't given this coping mechanisms *gasp* to deal with it in younger years [
oh piss off, lots of older people (or those that were never diagnosed period) figured out how to deal best they could], I decided to come to TikTok and see what people were doing to manage their ADHD! *deep breath* And y'all did not disappoint!
So what I found was this uh, method of planning your day, planning your life out, through this thing called chore tags! And basically what they are *picks up single keychain* is it's the keychains that you can write on, and this keychain stretchy bands. And you use them to plan out every tour [
she really said tour instead of chore] that you need to do, right?
*deep breath* Because see, for me, I get stuck with executive dysfunction! *lip smack* I don't *pause* know what to do next! Because in my brain, there is a big box and it has everything in it! And I have no way of sorting that box out in my brain! I, it's just stuck, right?
*deep breath* *begins picking up more keychains*
But these tour tags [
okay I guess they're now tour tags and not chore tags] have given me a physical representation of what that looks like in my brain! And this is what it looks like!
*lifts up the whole damn bag of keychains and waves them around*
And y'all, this is why I was stuck! Is because all of this! [
Polly barely does anything in her life, though? We already know she doesn't work, bathe or feed her animals regularly, or clean the goddamned house or trailer. What is actually on her to do list besides eat and shit?]
*deep breath* *lowers keychains* But the tags *pause* and these little rings *lifts up one of those binder rings that you put like nail polish swatch sticks on* have helped me get this sorted out! So I can actually get these done! [
feed your damn animals] And it's working!
*deep breath* So what I'm doing *pause* *tongue click* is um, in the morning, I get up and put all of these tacks [tasks] [onto the ring]. This is my morning routine. And as I finish, as I finish those, I take them off the ring and I put them on my spare ring! [
is it a spare if you use the spare regularly, though?] *deep breath*
And when that spare ring is full, and this [the first loaded one] is empty, *deep breath* I move onto my daily chores! *shows and jiggles two sets of rings* Right! *deep breath* And when my daily chores are done, as I'm doing them [
greenscreen is glitching really badly in this] I put them onto the spare ring again!
*deep breath* And when this [first ring] is clear, I move onto my night routine! [
shocking] *lifts and jiggles another set of keychains* Right? And as soon as the night routine is done [
they go onto the spare ring?] you're done for the day! *shows empty ring*
*deep breath* Because that's simple! *deep breath* I went on Pinterest and found chore lists and that helped me figure out what needed to be done! [
THIRTY NINE YEAR OLD WOMAN] And I also added my own chores! Because there was a lot of things that I do that weren't listed!
Um, go through your day! *deep breath* My husband, the first day I did this, uh, *pause* *lip smack* it's only been a couple days since I've started this [
oh, so we're still in the honeymoon stage] and he's been working a lot, so. *deep breath* But the first day, he *stammers* I did this, he was his off day, and he saw the physical representation. *deep breath* And he was taking tags *stammers* from me to help me [
so she didn't even finish the tour tags on her own but is still pulling a "I did that!"] So I hope this helps someone else get their life organized! Because I think it's gonna work [
*three days later* *tags covered in cat hair and dryer lint like everything else in the house*]