'The forgetting part of ADHD never goes away. I used to forget homework. Now I lock my keys in the car (or the house), leave my cell phone on the park bench, and forget to grab extra clothes for my potty-training three-year-old.'
Once, when I was a kid, I locked our front door with a skeleton key . We were supposed to hang the key on the nail next to the door, but I forgot. I set it on the couch without thinking, and went off to do whatever kids do at that age. My father went to unlock the door, saw the key was neither in the lock nor on the peg, and went ballistic. “Where’s the key?!” he demanded, breath hot in my face. “Where’d you put it?”We scoured the house for hours.
This forgetful tendency continued when I had children. I was terrified I’d forget to my feed my oldest son, but luckily he let me know when he needed to nurse on demand. I had to set multiple phone alarms to remember his doctor’s appointments. And mine? I figured that I didn’t need to get seen at six weeks postpartum.
Newborns are good about reminding you of things. They scream, you pop a boob in their mouth. They scream and/or smell stinky, and you change their diaper. We used convertible car seats, so I never accidentally left them in the car; I needed to slot them into a car seat before we could go into Target. I did, however, always forget wipes, sometimes diaper covers , and occasionally, diapers themselves. Most of the time I just forgot the whole diaper bag.
As the kids got older, they started to have social lives of their own. And it fell to me, as the stay-at-home parental unit, to keep their social calendar. I inevitably double-booked play dates, which is embarrassing because you have to cancel one and admit you had already made plans. Or I’d make a play date on the same day that they had a regular, once-a-week-every-week homeschool co-op class.
The forgetting part of ADHD never goes away. I used to forget homework. Now I lock my keys in the car , leave my cell phone on the park bench, and forget to grab extra clothes for my potty-training three-year-old. It’s one of the most annoying symptoms of my primarily inattentive form of ADHD. I try to use calendar and phone alerts, but mostly, all I do is live with it. It sucks. I know I’m not alone.
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