My Thought of the Day....... I don't lose things. I place them in highly creative locations for future scavenger hunts.......bc I love scouring high and low when I am in a hurry...

How many of you are in a long-term relationship or marriage where you are neurodivergent (ADHD, AuDHD, etc.) and your partner is neurotypical? How does that dynamic work for you? Do they balance you out? Drive you absolutely bananas? Are they the calm to your chaos, or do they spend half their life asking "what"? My husband and I have been married for 20 year (together for 22). I feel we balance each other out pretty well.. There are times when he tells me to calm down though🤣🤣🤣 or needs to pull me back to reality..... I would love to hear how you maneuver.... the good and the "not so good".

If you were to explain ADHD as a Haiku, what would you say? A haiku is a Japanese poem with only 3 sentences. (I knew 3 lines, but had to look up syllables. smh) Sentence one is 5 syllables. Sentence two is 7 Syllables. Sentence three is 5 syllables. The best part of a haiku is that it doesn't have to rhyme. No use of Ai. 👀 Mine would be: A D H D Sucks Where are my keys...scroll's Facebook (an ellipsis ... does not affect the count. I checked) Look...It's a squirrel or What does Shawn want now? Anybody want to go for a pizza, I'm hungry. 1234_5_6_ what was I supposed to be doing again? Have you seen where I put my shoes? I'm going to McDonalds. 🤔😉

For me it's going to sleep early (couldn't get myself to it for a long time). What's yours and how does it improve your life if you change it?

Good morning guys! Yesterday was quite rough on me..my daughter left for the summer.. and let's just say last summer her dad played games and I barely got to talk to her etc... so a LOT of emotions that I had to keep under control for days straight etc . But all of that to say, the URGE is to "stay in bed all day and try to deny what is going on". Right? But this is where I'm doing things DIFFERENTLY this summer: I'm showing up for ME. Because CATHY still is in this house. So that being said, I thought of something to try as a "framework" for my day, at least for today. To both hopefully give me that safe feeling of structure while also giving me the needed feeling of flexibility and freedom.. And I've decided to call it "9-5; 9-5". Here is what I'm going to do: From 9 am to 5 pm today, every hour I will set timer for 20 minutes and do SOMETHING focused. Whether that is drinking water. Whether that is eating. Whether that is exercising. Etc. But the other 40 minutes of every hour can be anything, nothing etc. The OTHER "9-5" will be 9 pm to 5 am. And the rule with that is I need to be IN bed from 9 pm to 5 am. Why am I doing this? Because I have a busy day tomorrow. And this week (already overwhelming me 😅) and for once, I am being CONSIDERATE of THOSE Cathy's. Why is this hard? Because I technically don't have to do ANYTHING today. but my life isn't how I want it etc. So if I don't give my brain at least little focused jobs it WILL take over and I will just suffer today frankly. Anyway, overall I'm excited to try this! Because it will make doing my streaks feel even more fulfilling. And I'm reminding myself, I STILL have flexibility with this rhythm. A LOT of flexibility actually. But this will hopefully ensure I don't end up watching 7 hours of TV straight (or more) AND end up regretting that. As an example. Historically, the day after daughter leaves i am in shock, I suffer, etc. I'm NOT doing that to myself today. Just because I don't have a partner or pet or "family" to rally around me doesn't mean I don't get to rally for myself.