Plurk paste

- Brain fog.
- Being “in my head” all the time, not even realizing that I’m not paying attention to my surroundings until I realize I missed my turn a mile and a half ago or I was supposed to be taking notes on something.
- Failing to prepare for tasks before undertaking them. I’ll start cleaning a snake enclosure and then realize I didn’t find my sanitizer first, or that I didn’t grab a trash bag and now I can’t because my hands are full. Stuff like that.
- If I have a plan and something happens to disrupt The Plan I get very upset.
- If I have a plan and something happens so I have to change the plan on short notice, I get confused and disorganized and miss other essential steps or do them out of order.
- Constantly losing personal items no matter how hard I try to keep track of them.
- Getting distracted in the middle of a task (wandering around the house with one sock on because I remembered something else I needed to do in the middle of putting on my socks).
- Failing to budget enough time to get to appointments because I think “well I can just do this one quick thing first” and then I get distracted for 20 minutes and lose track of time.
- Obsession with keeping track of time specifically BECAUSE it’s so easy for me to lose track of it
- Inability to prioritize. Find myself working on nonessential, non-urgent tasks at 2 in the morning when I have to be up for work at 7 and I still need to take a shower.
- Tasks feel much bigger and more difficult than they are, especially multiple step tasks that involve some degree of uncertainty so I can’t just plan out the whole thing beforehand.
- Incredible focus and organizational abilities in specific situations (i.e. my work), while my personal life is constantly in shambles.
- If I get emotional about something I literally cannot put it away and focus again until I’ve dealt with whatever it is. This leads to impulsive behavior in which I try to “fix” a difficult emotional situation quickly instead of just giving it time, which is inevitably disastrous.