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Hester Grainger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
574 total appearances

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ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Is it on a notepad?

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Is it in our brains?

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Because if it's in our brains, it's never happening.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Is it we've just forgotten about it already?

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

And again, you know,

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

There's that thing, isn't there, where it's like, oh, I clean on a... You know, I'm going to do all the laundry on a Monday.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

But what if we need something for the Wednesday or something for the Thursday?

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Or if you're running a family, you know, you've got a whole household and there's PE kits involved in school uniforms or football kits at the weekend.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Actually, it doesn't always work like that.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

And if you're neurodivergent, as you well know, you know, your children may probably well be very much so.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

So it's that kind of thing as well that almost the whole house has to be involved in that because actually you can be like, well...

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

you know, I'm going to do the washing on a Monday, but actually your kids haven't told you they've got piles of stuff in their room or whatever.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

But, you know, it's about having then a laundry bin that then everything goes in there, et cetera.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

But I think being really targeted with it is great, but actually we just try and self-sabotage.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

So it's like, well, no, actually, and again, a bit of the PDA kicks in of like,

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

actually no i'm not going to do that because you've told me to as in you yourself you're telling yourself and your brain you know and i think that can happen is the self-sabotage and then you say no i'm not going to do that today or it then throws you when you need to do the washing more than once a week and you're like well hold on it's now a thursday and i've got to do washing as well because you know there was more pe this week or sports or i spilt something down myself whatever it is actually that can then be really difficult so i would advise against that

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Yes.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

School uniforms.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

Just multiples of things, which I know is really difficult.

ADHD Chatter
5 Cleaning Rules That DESTROY ADHD Brains (and 10 that actually help you declutter)

I know it can be really challenging, but actually...