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It's fine. Just always be present. 100% of the time. Always be aware of what you are doing, what you need to do, and what you are doing next. Don't forget to be thinking about what is happening today. Also, keep in mind what is happening next week.
Pretty sure I forgot to take my stomach pill today. The same pill I take every morning, for about 7 years.
Oops.
This is why it's so hard to have these conversations with neurotypicals in particular. A majority of the time, NDs don't even know what they're struggling with because it's so automatic at this stage. And when things get boiled down to "nobody just runs a marathon automatically without deciding to lol silly!" it gets even more challenging.
I so relate to this. I listen to audiobooks or podcasts all the time because it keeps my brain partially occupied. Forgetting to take meds is a huge issue for me. I'm asthmatic and need to take an inhaler twice a day. I've been using an inhaler for 35 years and I still can't remember regulary. I'm broken.
Podcasts and audiobooks are great for keeping the mind amused while doing representative tasks.
And at the same time think about that time someone was mean to you 8 years ago
Can't. I'm too busy planning projects that I will either start now or do later.
Yea, i do that too, except i actively work on all of them, most of my projects are it/server projects for for my self, but i do work on like 10 projects at a time, though because i dont have money for an expensive server, i use an old computer that currently cant do any of the things i need from it, so im just slowly upgrading it
Are you me? Seriously, I have been slowly migrating my windows primary machine to a Mint system. I bought my first M.2 NVME and am loving the responsiveness.
The drives coming out of there are going to my file server, which is all the components I was using before the upgrade.