I Needed This Today.

I needed this today. 

I hate myself often

comic about someone’s strange dream (and daydreams)

Let me show you some things that helped me tons with ADHD functioning/adulting.

There's a to-do app called TickTick

🍅 It has built in Pomodoro (with customisable timers, a strick mode with an app and site blocker, and a whitelist),

⏱️ a timer that you can set on specific tasks or subtasks,

📅 it has a calendar,

📚 lists, tags, an Eisenhower-matrix, Kanban Board,

🤩 you can customise with colors and emojis,

🚩 you can set priorities and set the lists to show the items sorted by date or priority or name or custom, etc.,

🏡 you can create sections within the lists too,

📮 you can set notifications that pop up on your screen giving you the option to start a timer, postpone it for later, check it off, or skip it.

📈 You can create both subtasks and checklists for your tasks, and when you check of an item, by them it shows a tiny pie chart with the prescentage completed. It also shows how many days are left.

- With school tasks, I've listed everything I had to get done for the exam and added all the information and details, e.g. for all my readings, I included the link/where to find it in the library, the pages I had to read and the number of pages for quick access.

- To make it more fun/gamify the process, I added a little emoji (e.g. a waterdrop 💧 or a colored book 📙) before the name of the thing I have just completed and e.g. a bucket 🪣 or river 🌊 or plant 🌱 for the raindrops, or a bookshelf 🗃📚 emoji for the books, and as I complete an item, I collect the books/drops, etc. in there.

For example:

✉️💌📧📦🗞 >> 📬📮

🌧💧 >> ☔️ or 🌊 or 🪣 or 🌱 or 🪴

📕📙📔📗📘📖📚📒📑📜 >> 🗃🗄📚

🌟🌙🌠🪐🚀🌕☁️ >> 🌌

Etc.

Illustration: (my app is in a mixture of English and Hungarian)

🪣 Then there's the app Tody!

An app for housework, it encourages you, it puts little splashes on the area when a task is due, you can set "effort level", it also sends you a notification and meassures how dirty one thing might be based on the last time you cleaned it, (I did the emojis myself)

Then there's WonderFridge!

It's an app to keep track of the content of your fridge and pantry, it has plenty of beautiful illustrations for every sort of drink or food. It keeps track of the expiration dates of foods and sends you notifications so you can eat/use them up before they go wrong.

Then there's Boosted! 🕑

Boosted is a very simple app, originally created to measure the time spent on different projects and their subtasks. I personally use it to break down tasks in the moment and do a speed run doing them as fast as I can. (Especially when I'm about to hit a deadline.)

The simplicity of the app doesn't make it overwhelming like typing it into a to-do app would and it also changes my mindset from "I have half an hour so I'll have to take half an hour to do these things" to "let's do them as fast as I can." It saved me from being late for an exam.

Then there's Finch!

Finch is an adorable self-care app in which you hatch a baby pinguin/finch bird and as you do your tasks, you give them energy to go, explore and every day come home with a new thing explored, chat with you about it and grow a little.

It has task suggestions, a built in journal with or without prompts, breathing and grounding exercises, acts of kindness, and many more. You can also set/group your tasks into journeys.

Then there's Daylio!

Daylio is a very simple journal/diary to keep track of the days ('cause I rarely remember what happended yesterday or which day can a memory be dated back to.) You can set up little buttons for activites, moods, symptoms, the weather, or anything you fancy and just tap over the ones that fit the day. You can also freely ad text, photos, or create a sound entry.

It's fully customisable (even the colors and mood) and makes you plentiful of different statistics so you can check long term tendencies. It's super useful for monitoring mental health.

I have the chategories "good things" (reading 📗, music 🎵, watching the stars 🔭, time in nature 🌱, offering a helping hand 🫶, etc.), "weather", "hours slept" (this one I rarely use), "goals" (checking of something from my bucket/to-do list 🥾, working 💼, volunteering 🐚, etc.), "university" (study session ✏️, reading session 📕, etc.), "healing" (step out of comfort zone 🌼, let myself feel 🍒, felt numb ☁️/cozy ☕️, etc.), "hobbies", "health" (exercise 🤸‍♀️, vitamine 📆, face wash 🧼, etc.), "housework", "food" (had breakfast 🥐, lunch 🍛, dinner 🥪, ate fruits 🍒, ate sweets 🧁, etc.), "people I love" (who did I spend time with/expressed love towards), "love" (the 5 love languages listed both for giving and receiving [gratefulness]), "other" (negative moods and emotions, down ☁️, existential ⛅️, tired 🌬, guilty ⚡️, etc.), and another for positive and healthy emotions (including healthy sadness 🌧). You can fully customise it for yourself.

There's also Tiimo

Tiimo was developed by and keeping in mind the needs of neurodivergent people. In it you can set up routines and tasks with their duration and an emoji (they have a beautifully colored emoji set!). You can schedule your tasks at a specific time or set them "to do anytime" and set them to repetition. Once the scheduled time comes you get notified and the app starts a visual timer (even if you don't start the task...) and once done, you can check it off.

I hope I could help some!

If I made any typos, let me know!

Until next time! *friendly salutes*

I have a small group of people that its not like that for. But I feel like it is run by the 1 person who talks a lot, and when they are gone I have to make up the difference but Im not good at that.

Outside of that 4-5 people, even though I have more “friends”, I can never be a person. I feel like creature (bad way)

I can’t speak for anyone else but for me, being autistic is being the one that’s left out of the group every single time

It’s being the wallflower, the ghost, that one unremarkable person that no one would miss if they were gone

Being autistic and interacting with coworkers and friends and supervisors is like trying to solve a puzzle that has no reference picture

It’s like trying to solve a formula with a bunch of different factors such as social cues, tone, body language, eye contact, loudness, etc.

I’m trying to figure out how to solve for x but I can’t even figure out what y is, and I’ve never been good at math

I could read every book on social interactions, and still be unable to know when it’s my turn to talk because my brain isn’t wired that way

My brain was wired to live in my own fantasy land, in my middle earth. It was not meant to handle the stress of work plus socializing

Today I felt like everyone hated me because I cannot figure out what someone’s tone means. Is she joking with me, or is she mad?

My brain makes me feel like people pour poison about me onto other’s ears, behind my back, like how Claudius poisoned Hamlet’s father

I’ve had therapists that would tell me to just simply talk to people and ask them to hang out, as if it were that simple.

Alas, if only they knew that for me that feels like taking a dive into the fires of Mountain Doom! That the mere thought makes me shiver

I am autistic. And I’m proud to be autistic. But it is hard to exist in a world that was not designed for me, and I’m tired

We’re all just parts

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

~Edit~

Yikes guys I didn’t expect this post to blow up.

I’m grateful it did though. Looking at all the comments and tags really takes a stab at my heart because it just shows how wired we are for connection. If life has any meaning, then it’s that.

This concept really sunk its teeth into me as it reassures the notion that no one is ever truly gone. Parts of them just change into you.

That teacher I talked about inspired me to become a teacher myself. This was my first year teaching. Here’s to a new generation of curved i’s.

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