Dr. Micaela

That is something that's like, can be really hard to remember because it's one day.

And I might even think about someone all day and then text them three days later.

And I actually remembered two days later, but then I was so ashamed that I forgot, even though I remembered that I like punished myself for a little while before I actually said something.

So putting pictures of your friends in your immediate environment is a great way of keeping them kind of like in sight and therefore in mind.

And then the other thing that you can do is like,

set alarms or schedule check-ins on your calendar or with your phone.

So if there's someone that you're like, oh, for whatever reason, you just remembered them out of the blue, you could be like, oh, I really want to like connect more with Michaela.

So I'm going to schedule a reminder every other day at noon to text Michaela.

And maybe you only actually do it one of those times a week.

that's still once a week more often than you were doing it before.

And you're building a practice of remembering to text friends so that you are building the skill of reaching out and connecting with your friends.

also not easy, but can definitely be related to ADHD.

There are also people with ADHD who talk about like, when I'm not around my friends, I feel like they don't love me or like I have no emotional connection to them.

So making sure that you, like that's where the pictures can really kind of come into play is because you have

like visual representation in your face of fun times that you had together and like, oh yeah, this person or like keeping birthday cards or, you know, like those little like mementos, I guess, because those are these little love reminders, right?

all over your home or your spaces.

And if you have a hard time connecting with that at work or school or whatever, can you remember to wear a bracelet that somebody gave you and you love them?

And so you're like, oh yeah, this is, my sister gave me this bracelet.

And so like, I'm remembering my sister more often because I see the things she gave me.

Uh, also heads up, uh, it's really easy for people with ADHD to start tuning things out.