feel instead of think? | ADHD Information

2 things,

Do people here have troubles keeping clean? I mean to the point where you can't and don't want to wear anything nice because somehow you ALWAYS get dirty?

Damnit I forget the second one... ack....

Oh yeah....damnit lost it again, I HATE THIS!

OH! Thinking thing uhhh okay do any of you find it easier with some tasks that strangely things work well if you STOP thinking and just go with your gut? Just stop thinking and go with emotion?

See I'm that way with math, if I sit and concentrate on it It takes me forever but if I just look at a question and then guess the answer I'm like 90% right..... it's wierd... okay usually I have to break it into parts butyou get the idea.... it's like hidden intelligence I can't actively think about. I have to STOP thinking to use it.... and then I don't understand it or know how I got the number.... like NOT A CLUE.
When I played outside as a kid, no matter what we were doing I always ended up completely filthy, like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown. As an adult, when I go outside I still somehow end up getting dirt on myself.

Its funny because my daughter will play outside, even in the mud, yet manage to not get a single spot on her clothing, even white shirts.

I find with maths I start to doubt myself if I think about it too much.

My brain is such a slippery thing, I utterly forget things 2 minutes later...did I eat breakfast this morning? Did I take my tablet? Did I call that person back, or did I just think about doing it? I never know for sure.

But I know 7x8=56 without thinking about it because I learn it off by heart in year 3. It's when I start thinking "what is 7x8?", I don't trust my own brain to know the answer and I have to get out a calculator just to make sure.

Perhaps this is your problem too, learning to trust that slippery, untrustworthy memory!

 

My husband when I first met him worked in a shop fixing mufflers, breaks and front end stuff on cars and he was always covered in grease more than his co-workers.  His hands were stained greasy, on our wedding day I told people since there was more than one wedding going on to look for the bride with a hand print on her backside.  Yes he is a dirt magnet and for that matter so is our 5 year old.