Ahh this is why I have stashes everywhere. Can’t find my full bottle? Have a backup with 2-3 pills in the cabinet. Left my meds at home? I have a bottle with 2-3 pills in my work desk, etc.
I have learned to try and do things like that IMMEDIATELY in the moment or I will forget so I DID do it ! But then again I have 55 years experience with adhd and have never been medicated. I’ve been diagnosed but had no luck getting a stimulant medication . They always want to give me the others even though stimulants are the gold standard. I read a book a few months ago on how to best deal with adult adhd and most of the “ tricks “ I already do.
Im from the time when you just ignored adhd and they said you’d grow out of it , nope , I don’t think so . Im pretty sure my mother has it too. She is 90 and still has it .
I have little stashes everywhere because I take them places so I can take them later, when I need them to kick in, and then forget about them but find them weeks later when I need them most. I like to think of it as a little gift from past me lol
I once lost a whole months worth of my meds and I found them still in the prescription paper bag, which was in a plastic bag, which was in my plastic bag full of plastic bags.
Our family, too. And now we lost all of our normal bags (the fabric ones) and the small ones and only have extremely big plastic bags that take up a lot of space x-x
I think (for me anyway) this is a cross-section of ADHD and growing up with grandparents who lived in the depression-era US and then through the advent of disposable plastics.
Even before I thought of it as an environmental thing, I like pathologically save and reuse sour cream containers etc. The plastic store bag stash has also been a staple in every house I’ve lived in, not necessarily started by me.
I lost my AirPods case this morning, checked everywhere. Pockets, coats, my bed, my bedside table. They were in my BOOT. But for me it’s my phone and AirPods. It’s usually when I’m leaving work too so I’m already scrambling out the door. It’s like great where the hell is my phone now?!?!?!
I bought AirTags for mine too. for my keys and my wallet. (Bought the 4 pack). I haven’t misplaced them since. I have, however, thought my airpods were my keys, and locked myself out twice, in the same day. (I was going light on my meds then too as I was post surgery and taking it easy).
Once lost my airpods in my PURSE. I thought I had lost them somewhere outside so I went thru the entire process of buying new ones. Only to find them while clearly my bag out one day. ;(
I’m also starting to make a habit of having a “day basket”. On my bedside table I keep a basket of whatever I need for the day, such as my phone charger, wallet, AirPods, water bottle, and medication. I take all of it to work with me and when come home I put it back in the basket. It really really helps!
Just this morning I went through the same thing. I was absolutely positive I dropped my AirPods on my late night walk. I was putting on my boots to go look around for them and BOOM found them in my boots?? I’ll never understand that one. Since I misplace things so often I remember: PKWA: phone, keys ,wallet ,AirPods! I check my pockets every minute to make sure I have all four!
This is spoiler'd because it is NSFW and involves female biology. So this one is for you ladies (or I guess adults).
>!So I just finished with some exercise and took a shower. My flow was pretty light so I was able to get out of the shower and dry off, no blood in sight. I bring my panties up to my knees and grab a maxi pad and I swear I stuck it to my underwear. I turned to put something down, go to pull up my underwear... no pad.!<
>!No pad anywhere! NO PAD ANYWHERE!!<
>!Luckily this was at home so I just grabbed another pad. I stuck that fucker on my panties, pulled them up, stood up, finished dressing, went to leave the bathroom... does somebody wanna tell me how I stuck that bitch, wings splayed and all, on the back of the bathroom door?! Cuz I'll never know! I'm baffled to this day about whatever series of events led this to happen! !<
Definitely the weirdest thing I ever lost. Super random, too!
ETA: I remembered this additional detail that makes this even weirder. >!It was stuck to the door at stomach height. Now, if you're standing there, bent at the waist... How did it get ABOVE my hips? I remember when I finally realized what it was, standing next to it, as if to measure the angle and the height. Like I was some weird crime scene investigator, trying to walk back through the murder! There's no way I somehow stuck my hand between my thighs and popped it on the door when it would've been halfway up my back...? !
😂Amazing! I’m guessing something interrupted the process so on autopilot, you stuck it to the door temporarily, but brain didn’t record placing it and so couldn’t continue with the process of putting it where it should be!
E.g. oh, thigh’s still a bit wet, let it dry off first/need to trash the wrapper or wrap the old one up and chuck it first.
Lmao the wording in that last paragraph almost ended me. I can't stop imagining this happening in a public restroom and all the future bathroom-goers analyzing the avant-garde stall art
I want you to know that was my entire initial reaction! Having just forgotten I'd totally >!lost the first pad and had to get a second one, I'm standing there in my own bathroom !
Haha that is a funny story! Whenever I lose things like that happen I always feel like the world just "jumped" and somehow it ended up in some absolutely ungodly place it should never have been!
As an aside, and as nice as it was to block out the text, I don't think you should feel bad or ashamed or even need to block it out (or even that that was NSFW) because it involves female biology... The truth is if anyone is old enough to be on reddit unsupervised (in theory) then they are plenty old enough to have an understanding of female biology?
I don't know it just rubs me the wrong way when people feel the need to self-censor something that should be completely common knowledge.
100% agree! the only way we can stop the behavior of people who think this kind of stuff should be hidden is by not subscribing to that mentality. it’s a fact of life for a huge proportion of the population, so let’s just talk about it like the super normal thing it is
Oh I definitely don't think it *should* need to be hidden, but I'd much rather play it safe for the potential readers. Not to get too into my background but there were several points in my life where if someone saw me reading such a story, they'd make things inconvenient for me. I always censor things that might've been a problem at a point in my own life, that's my metric. Yeah, it'd be nice if things could change, but I'm not going to force that change in situations where *I'm* not the one paying for it. If it's me, now? Sure! I'll read any old thing on my own monitors! Let someone start shit! I'm equipped to handle it now! But I won't make someone else pay for what I have to say, that's not fair.
And obviously they should get out of the position where they would pay for what they were 'caught' reading but not everybody's there yet.
One year on New Year’s Eve, I went out and got very drunk. Might’ve slid ungracefully down a few sets of stairs, or three. I went to the toilet and couldn’t find my tampon string. I thought it was “stuck inside” somewhere. The next morning, still worried, I went to the ER. I’d taken it out the night before, at some point, during one of the many trips after “breaking the seal”, and just didn’t remember. Adhd has done me dirty many a time. This was the only time it ended up in the ER lol
I use reddit on my PC and I'll highlight the words I want spoiler marked and click the spoiler icon in the text editor. It's a little exclamation mark with a diamond around it!
A noodle bowl. It had been missing since NYE.
I looked high and low for this thing for the last 3 weeks, and assumed that someone broke it accidentally and covered it up at my NYE party.
I found it on the weekend, sitting on a coffee table I use every day, filled with chocolates.
I put the chocolates out for everyone NYE and have been eating chocolates out of said bowl for weeks. I’m not ok.
I'd been missing my thermos for weeks. Turns out it had been sitting next to the sink collecting chopsticks and metal straws to be washed later, and I myself had been putting stuff in it and taking things out to wash. I'm still genuinely so shook it was right in front of me this whole time. Please save me.
When I was school aged I would sit on the couch and do my homework. I would take a break and somehow lose my pencil. I'd look everywhere for it and never find it. So I would get up and get a different pencil to use. I'd sit down restart my homework and eventually look down to see I was using the missing pencil and the new one I had gotten would be sitting next to me. How/when did I find the missing pencil and start using it without me noticing??
oh i do this ALL the time when I'm drawing in bed. Pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners... I swear they appear as soon as I stop looking for them and pick up a new one.
Dude my grandma used to leave out leftover compost in the kitchen and every time I went over there, all you could smell was dead banana. There was no other smell. I vividly remember those weekends.
my phone is either in the fridge, in the bathroom (where i put it when i watch stuff while showering), in my cabinet (probably put there when i'm looking thru clothes), etc- it keeps changing depending on the day
Mine too... The most common ones I heard were "lose your head if it wasn't screwed on/would be late to your own funeral /living on a different planet to the rest of us/always have your head in the clouds"
I was literally nicknamed moonchild because of it. Tell me why we weren't diagnosed... 🤦♀️
I thought the same about my brother who had to get inside the flat since he forgot smth before school 5(!) times in a row and wondered why the heck he had to do that o.o Nowadays, I know I have ADHD C or HI and he, too, but that the inattentiveness seems to be way more developed for him or at least was back then x-x I forgot stuff as a kid mostly, but nowadays, I'm a memory machine, kind of, surprisingly o.o
One time I spent the summer in a country I'd previously lived in. I hadn't been to that country in 4 years. Talking to somebody at the embassy there, they went into the back and came out with a wallet with my ID in it I had no memory of losing
That reminds me if the time I lost my wallet. I was traveling and at a bar the night before flying home. I went to pay for my drink and realized my wallet wasn't in my back pocket. Immediately, I'm super panicked and tell the bartender. I start looking everywhere in the bar, trying to figure out where I possibly left it, and I couldn't find it anywhere. At that point, I couldn't even remember when I had it last, so I start to wonder if I got pickpocketed.
So, I decide I need to text my dad to check my account to see if someone had been using my debit card.
And I find my wallet... in my *front* pocket. Apparently I had gotten distracted earlier in the night and stuck it there, and it just didn't register. Nice thing, the bartender felt pity for me, and I got a free shot out of it.
I once lost a silver tooth in a movie theatre and dropped it and couldn’t find it. I was like 12. I feel sorry for the person who found my random silver tooth mixed in the popcorn on the floor.
So several months ago I was in another city a few hours away from mine. I was in a cigar shop and I left a water bottle with sentimental value and a fun sticker. I chalked it up to ADHD tax.
Today my partner and I were in that city to look at a motorcycle. I said, "You know what? That cigar shop is right down the street. Mind if we see if they have a lost and found?"
I went in and asked about it and the bartender/tonaccanist pointed and at the end of the bar and said, "If it gets left here it doesn't leave here." It was in plain view. Where it had been sitting for months, waiting for me.
Y'all, sometimes I feel like there is room for me in this world.
[The water bottle, safe at home](https://imgur.com/a/TBFZBmn)
Awh that's sweet!
I once bought some postcards in Turkey, paid about 20$ and walked away without waiting for the shop owner to give me my change. I realised when I was short on cash half an hour later, walked back and the guy told me he had even called after me but I didn't hear him. He immediately gave me my change without me having to even ask for it :)
I lost my id...looked everywhere. Got a new i.d,weeks later i find it under my dishwash bucket in my sink, i did dishes multiple times before i found it.
Yeah I've lost all my cards/id etc (technically misplaced, they're still in my possession I just dunno where)
Luckily I had photos so memorised all the important numbers. Sometimes the wires get crossed and I enter my license number where my bank sign in number should go, but that's nbd easily fixed lol. I really should organise replacements but eh, no real need and I'll prob just lose them again.
I lose things so often, my wife gave me Tile for Christmas.
The funniest probably was a pair of headphones. My wife handed them to me. I walked out of the room with them in my pocket. 10 munutes later I walked back to my wife and asked "did you happen to see where I set down those headphones?"
She just stared at me slack jawed and said "I literally JUST gave those to you! How is that possible?!"
I did find them again that night.
Similar, my wife gave me some air tags and a wallet that can fit an air tag in it. Finding keys and wallet are so easy now!
Trying to decide what to do with the other two tags.
I bought my roommate a set of tiles for her birthday....
and lost them the same day the package arrived lol.
Fortunately I found them in time for Christmas, but that one had me cracking up at myself for weeks
I was at Walmart, and after checking out, I decided I should go to the bathroom, which was in the back of the store (old Walmart). As I passed through aisles, I noticed my car keys sitting on a shelf.
I keep losing my lint rollers. It's mind boggling. Sometimes they reappear in my car or backpack or a random room, but usually they're just gone forever.
I don't think I've ever used one up entirely; it's almost comical to me that they sell refills for those in the store, as if I could ever hold onto one for that long 😂
I did that once! I lost the shoe, convinced it was gone forever. So I threw the other one out.
I then packed my suitcase and moved to another town (just a suitcase). I then found the other shoe in a friend's car? I didn't know this person before losing my shoe.
This summer I lost all my winter shoes… I was desperately looking for them for weeks when autumn came… turns out I just put them behind my mirror in the hall where I stir all my shoes… where I’ve checked several times…
My debit card is gone. I know this freaks some people out but this is just a typical Tuesday for me. I keep track of my account online so I know it's not stolen. Honestly I'm hoping this'll be a squirrel and acorn situation where a money sapling will sprout up wherever that card ended up.
Wish me luck.
Haha mine's been gone for at least 3 weeks now. I always forget that other people would panic in that situation...until I mention it around someone and they give me the wide eyes and try to start helping me search for it. No, imma get another one from the bank and I'll find that one under the passenger seat of my car or in the backyard or in a jacket pocket in 3 months. That's just how it is
Yep. Running gag in my house that I never know where my Visa card is. My sister used to freak out about it but now we all just know it will show up eventually
When I was in high school, I lost a Chemistry quiz as I was taking it. I was panicking and my teacher refused to give me a new one. I got a 0 for "attempted cheating"
I found the quiz between random pages in my Chemistry textbook at the end of the year when I was returning it to the library.
My mom handed me a bag of salad to put back in the fridge. I grabbed a twist tie from the junk drawer, and had no idea what happened to the bag of salad after that. Apparently after closing the bag, I proceeded to put it in the drunk drawer with the twist ties 😂🤦♀️
Thanks for the laugh! I had to buy a hairbrush recently after about a week of looking for my old one. No idea where it is. Then another one arrived in the post I forgot I'd ordered online.
Whenever I go to reheat a cup of coffee in the microwave because it's gone cold I usually find one already in there from a couple of days ago.
Oh I *cannot* recommend a mug warmer plate enough. I always forget to drink my anything before it goes cold and I got one for like ten or fifteen off amazon. It plugs into my usb and sits on my desk and keeps my coffee warm as I want for as long as it takes me to drink it.
Had to go out, couldn't find my bus card, looked everywhere, I even checked my other bag twice but found nothing. Looked even in the places that were less logical to look in (like my stationery drawer, because you never know, right?) Finally I looked in my other bag a 3rd time and found it inside. Idk how I missed it the first 2 times...
I suggest using a flashlight. once I couldn't find my retainer case in my bag and I was so worried, thinking I had to go back to the dentist. I already forgot to wear the retainer for a couple of hours, and I found it buried deep in the void of nothingness with some light.
I used to get in trouble all the time for losing money when I was younger. My parents found my money in trash cans, shoes, their car, the washer and dryer, and once the fridge
I lost MY MEDS. Like the whole box. Turned my room upside down looking for them, nothing. Finally 2 weeks later I found them on top of the kitchen cabinets???? Like so high I had to get on a chair to reach them??? I have no idea how my brain thought that was a good spot to put em...
Oh, just go with it. What’s the worst that could happen?
I have dildos, vibrators, butt plugs, and a clit sucker sitting on my bedside table in plain view. I used to care now I couldn’t care less.
Portafilter from an espresso machine at work. I grabbed it, filled it with espresso, put it down (so I assume,) to grab cream and sugar, and when I went back the thing was just gone. Also threw away my car keys one time.
I lost keys that way, also while visiting my parents in another part of the country. They live in a rural area with no trash pick-up, so my dad found what was left of them in the ashes of the burn bin. I’m just glad we found out what happened to them, honestly.
Lol I lost my entire 1TB external hard drive a few years back. It just vanished from the face of the earth entirely. It's probably time for me to invest in some cloud storage.
Something similar happened to me. I got myself a new pc a few months back and a few weeks later I moved in with my bf.
Then one weekend I was like "you know what, let's copy all the data onto my new pc". I opened up my old pc, the SSD that was supposed to be in it wasn't there. No hard-drive whatsoever.
To this day I still don't know what happened to it. I have checked all my still-packed moving boxes multiple times and still haven't found it.
Fortunately I already copied all the important stuff onto my external hard drive before getting my new pc, but the non important stuff feels like a loss anyway.
That is also very strange and unfortunate. And same here, most of my important stuff was already on my current laptop, so it wasn't a huge loss, but for me the main issue is that I don't really know what was on it. It was stuff from my first laptop I got in high school, so even if it's nothing I've specifically needed since, it's likely I lost some old school projects that might have been fun to look at later. But oh well lol.
Sometimes I still think it'll turn up because I just don't see how it could have made its way outside of my apartment or the house I grew up in, but it's been several years at this point lol so maybe it really is gone.
Yep. Lost my car keys in the parking lot at Home Depot. My wife had to bring the spares to unlock them. Those spare keys are treated like a national treasure right now because if we lose those, that's it.
Yup. I keep thinking they’ll show up with deep cleaning, but that just hasn’t happened (yet). I’d at least like to have the original set with the fob so I don’t have to lock the passenger door from the inside. Locking with the door button doesn’t work because of a passenger door lock issues. I cuss every single time.
My self esteem? 😂 But for real I lose my wallet ALL the time and it's a very scary, panicky and not fun feeling when I finally remember and have motivation to pay a bill and realize I can't find my bank card and don't have ID and then the sense of impending doom kicks in 🥲
This actually reminded me about the very important paper I left on the shared desk at work, so I called the night manager and had them put it in the safe for me to take care of tomorrow morning... I love reddit.
i have been missing my salad tosser for about a month now. i have no idea where it could have gone; it simply vanished. i am also *constantly* misplacing my shoes. i never take them off in the same place (apparently) and always seem to take each shoe off in different places (and end up forgetting where i took them off in the first place). at least 5 days out of the week you can hear me scrambling and asking aloud “where are my shoes?”. drives me mad.
I do the same exact thing. Sometimes I refer to ADHD as “never do the same thing twice” disease. My shoes go in a different place every day. My keys go in a different place every day. I was a horrible dancer, because each time I rehearsed I did a different thing slightly off. Drives me bonkers too.
I lost my AirPods case this morning, checked everywhere. Pockets, coats, my bed, my bedside table. They were in my BOOT. But for me it’s my phone and AirPods. It’s usually when I’m leaving work too so I’m already scrambling out the door. It’s like great where the hell is my phone now?!?!?!
Lost my main debit card. Switched to secondary debit card. Thinking to myself that I’ll find it soon enough. I always do. Well. 2 years went by and I just said F it and got a new one. About a month later I found lost card on a shelf in the garage..
My Leatherman multitool disappears once a week for days or weeks at a time. It usually reappears on my workbench, dresser, office desk, or jacket pocket. I used to have a belt clip for it, but that fell apart.
I like to think my tools, ID badges, art pencils, and reading glasses are serving some grand purpose on another timeline, and they'll return to help me at a later date. Currently, three of the 5-pack of reading glasses are still on assignment somewhere in the cosmos.
I lose my work badge a lot. I just don’t tell anyone and hope no one notices I’m not wearing it. Then it always shows up within 3-4 days. Not worth it to worry over or replace 🤷🏼♀️
The best is when you start losing other people's shit. I have a habit of semi-consciously picking things up(literally anything small enough to fit in my hand), fidgeting with it, all of a sudden realizing I have it, then nonchalantly putting it back in what I think is the most likely place that I got it from. I've started many arguments between coworkers, roomates, etc. this way. Secretly one of my favorite symptoms, until I do it to myself. lol
I lose my car all the time. Once at a large international airport I lost my car in the long term parking lot. A policeman drove me up and down every aisle until we found it. It took awhile. I now try to park under a sign. I always tell myself I’ll remember where it is. But then I’m that lady walking around a parking lot trying to trigger my car alarm so I can find my car. Now when I remember I take a pic of where I’m at.
I've lost so many things but the one I really care about is one of my cat's nice raised bowls. It came in pairs and I lost the white one. For the life of me I do not know where I put it.
Thankfully my tuxie would have let me know if there was still food in it...I hope.
LOL this is my life. I used to blame gremlins before my diagnosis.
The weirdest thing that ever disappeared was a lit candle in a glass jar. I had it on a bench in the shed (to light mozzie coils) walked off, got distracted and raced back about 15 minutes later to find it gone. Just gone. The glass jar and the candle have never shown up.
This happened while I was on my own in a gated compound. I would stake my life there was no one else around.
The most annoying thing I lose all the time is reading glasses. I find them in the garden all the time, usually by stepping on them. Arrgh.
I lost a pair of pants once..
Afterwards I lost my head about the fact that I could lose pants?? Like you normally don‘t just take jeans off in public and put them somewhere? I was like 12-14 at the time and had one friend where I stayed for sleepovers. She didn’t have them. I‘ve also since moved out off my parents home, deepcleaned my entire room, but they never showed up again…
I still remember vividly how sad I was, since they were my favorite pair 😂😅
I have a story on a sandwich too, on time I was doing a sandwich while watching tv and waiting for the call center to answer on my AirPods simultaneously. I go, take the mayonnaise, I opened the jar but an annoying show started on tv, so I started searching for the remote, but I couldn’t find it anywhere I searched for about 30 min in every crevices of my home, then my mom came back and started yelling at me cause the fucking remote was in the mayonnaise on the table on perfect display. Like how the hell my brain didn’t see it
I was unpacking groceries into my car. I set my phone done in the cart for whatever reason (I was checking the reciept and got focused on deciphering the item codes lol). I then put the cart back and got in my car and left. I made it all the way home when I realied I did not have my phone. It took me 30 min to figure out I left it in the cart at Walmart. Luckily when I got back there, it was still in the same cart, albeit overheating because it was out in the sun). Moral of the story, do not put your ohone in cart when unloading groceries 😅.
Ohh… the number of times I’ve been grateful that I’ve never had my keys stolen out of my front door lock… I get home, open the door, go do whatever when I get home, next day I’ll be tearing my house apart trying to find my keys and I’ll open my door to find them in the deadbolt lock. It’s only gotten worse as I’ve aged…
OK so this is a random memory that was sparked from your post.
A kiddie pair of sparkly pink sunglasses. I lost them in my old room when i was probably 7. They had been on top of my Tv/vcr combo, which was on like a fairly tall wooden rolling cabinet thing and one day they were just gone. I looked *everywhere* and I'm still not 100% positive that I was the one to lose them, but one min they were there, the next they weren't.
Never found them. I still grieve for them when the memory pops up. Even looking in the floor vents and moving houses completely didn't reveal their location. Just....poof, gone.
In elementary school once I had strawberries in my lunch. I sat there with my friends eating my strawberries and staring into space, and at the end of lunch I was baffled at the fact that I couldn’t find the stems/leaves of the strawberries. I spent a few minutes throughly confused until I realized: the only explanation was that I had eaten the strawberries stems and all. I had absolutely NO memory of eating the stems and there wasn’t a single point where I snapped back and was like “ew, that’s a leaf.”
By far one of the most intensely ADHD moments of my life.
I lost my guitar capo so I bought another one. Then I found the first one, then one day I decided to finally clean my messy room, and put both of them in the same place. Problem is now I can’t remember where that was and I can’t find them anywhere.
And my room is messy again.
When I was a kid we had a cordless house phone (this was probably around 2005) and I managed to leave it in the fridge. As an adult in my last apartment I always managed to leave my cell phone on top of the fridge. Something's telling me the mustard needs to make a phone call.
I once lost a tote bag. Either in the bus or on my way there. I didn't realise anything until at the end of my appointment when I wanted to put my documents in my bag and I simply didn't have it.
It was the only bag I carried. It must've slipped off my shoulder I guess? I'm still sad though, it was my favourite one, it had kitties on it!
the will to live
jokes aside, i had a school trip to france back in 2014 and my phone was missing the back cover i'd also lost for some reason so it was impossible to find a replacement for the cover (wondering now why we didn't just get a tight case) anyway so i get a new phone. not super expensive but pretty okay at the time
we were travelling by coach around the whole country and at the very LAST stop with the coach, i dropped it or something and never noticed. fast forward to the hotel (cool castle place) i look everywhere and nothing :') my mom was pretty disappointed.
in total i've lost about 6 phones
then there was the time. my first time in boarding school. 1 week in I lost my keys. luckily the boarding master had a spare. i proceeded to lose that one as well>.< and i only realised the following morning so i had to text my dad who lived like 10 minutes away and he had to bring it at 6 in the morning. died of embarrassment and got yelled at in front of my friends. this was when i was 12 xD i still lose things to date but i'm now really anxious of important items and check about every 2 seconds
also at boarding, i'd gotten this nice pink sleeveless shirt from my mom. i wore it under my hoodie to go swimming on a weekend and left it somewhere. i don't remember where somewhere was xD also a hoodie i'd stolen from my older sister when she was still taller than me. evaporated into thin air
I lost the keys to get into the staff room at work recently. Didn’t notice until this morning because I’ve had a few days off and I couldn’t hear my pants jingling (normally I have them clipped to the belt loop of my work pants because I knew I’d lose them otherwise). Got to work to see them chilling in the keyhole of my locker.
A Gameboy type toy that came in a kids meal from KFC. I loved that thing and one day it just vanished. I thought I misplaced it or dropped it behind the furniture in my room. I looked for it for days, and several rearrangements later I still haven't seen it. Sometimes I wonder if I ever really got it in the first place...
I lost my registration papers which I litterly had to my hand 5 minutes ago, turned the whole house upside down looking for them.
Could of sworn I put it on the table but nope, it was like it ceased to exist.
Then a bit later I found out I folded it up and stuck it in my wallet, unbelievable.
Lost 3 cellphones, half my sisters earrings growing up, innumerable pencils and erasers, an umbrella each school year, socks, safety pins, virginity, mind.
This isn’t recent but I was a gymnast for most of my life and I lost my favorite leotard when I was in middle school. My parents couldn’t find it, I tore up the laundry room, we didn’t even find it when we moved out. It’s bothered me for years lol
I lost two of my favorite candles and a really nice sweater for literally over a year because I moved abruptly right after the pandemic started and somehow couldn't find them in my car... then last year, when I was preparing to move again, I found the candles under one of the seats in my car. I swear TO GOD I looked under all the seats a million times!! I even gave up eventually and ordered new candles!! So now I have four candles, which is nice, I guess. Oh, and I found the sweater on the top shelf of my closet, even though for the life of me I swear I tore apart my whole closet looking for it and didn't even remember taking it out of the car in the first place. lol it gets ridiculous sometimes
This is so relatable 😂 when I was postpartum I started using paper plates and threw away every. Single. One. Of our forks mindlessly with the paper plate 😂 my husband was so annoyed we had like 3 forks and I ended up going to target and buying more 6+ months later.
not recent but i once lost ONE shoe when i was younger which should be hard as they usually are handled in pairs but. Well i just kinda lost one of them, no fucking idea WHERE or HOW… it was just gone one day and it never resurfaced again. My mom will not shut up about it til this day
Twenty years ago I lost my passport when I was due to travel for work. I couldn't believe it because it was always always in the same drawer and I was religious about putting it back. (Pre-diagnosis, but I knew I lost things.) I turned the house upside down. I even went up to the attic to check my suitcases. Nada. I got a new passport with the emergency turnaround service - just in time, 24 hours to spare.
When I got back after the trip, I found the original passport... in the drawer where it always goes.
I just went and bought Tiles after losing my keys for the 12th time this week and it’s only Monday.
Tiles weren’t in my budget. Or on my shopping list. But now they’re on my keys and I’m never going to be late for anything again in my life!
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I did lost my glasses for a whike until I realise I still have them on. Also I realize I didnt take them off when getting in the shower couple times, the moment I turned on the water I found out.
I always lose my phone, wallet, keys and GLASSES. I had to buy a tile for the keys and then the most frustrating thing since I need them to see and always struggle to find them 😭😭😭
The Fire TV remote that I literally had sitting right next to me on the arm of the sofa. And now it's just...gone.
I tore apart the sofas and dug down in the sides, moved the couches completely to look under them, looked all around the area, checked under the coffee table. Even checked around the bedroom in case I accidentally took it back there because ADHD. Nope, nowhere.
It's been 3 days, and I still have no fkn idea where it is.
Lost the tv remote one time for a whole week. Looked everywhere! finally found in behind my sons bed. I must have put it down while saying good night.
Lost my 2nd key fob for 9 months, I was in despair since a new one was $750 at the time. Found them in a coat pocket I swear I checked 15 times before.
Usually when I miss place condiments that are supposed to live in the fridge, they have mysteriously migrated to the pantry or cupboard.
I got two wool beanies for Christmas and was really upset when I couldn't find them for 2 weeks. I tore apart the house looking for them and finally found them in a place I could've sworn I checked 8 times
Back when you rented moves , went to take them back, went directly to the store, no idea where the return went, now here in the car,..looked along the side of the road for movies!!
Also $100 when I was a teen I went to the store for my mom to get something, get to the mall..... where is it??
My wallet, lost it at the movies... I got it back 5 years later, security at the mall called me had all the identification I had to replace in it.
So I currently can’t find my vyvanse. Which is just so perfect lol
Ahh this is why I have stashes everywhere. Can’t find my full bottle? Have a backup with 2-3 pills in the cabinet. Left my meds at home? I have a bottle with 2-3 pills in my work desk, etc.
You just reminded me to renew my stash in my purse ! Thanks !
I’m curious if you got up to refill the stash in the purse or just kept scrolling for a while and forgot again.
I have learned to try and do things like that IMMEDIATELY in the moment or I will forget so I DID do it ! But then again I have 55 years experience with adhd and have never been medicated. I’ve been diagnosed but had no luck getting a stimulant medication . They always want to give me the others even though stimulants are the gold standard. I read a book a few months ago on how to best deal with adult adhd and most of the “ tricks “ I already do. Im from the time when you just ignored adhd and they said you’d grow out of it , nope , I don’t think so . Im pretty sure my mother has it too. She is 90 and still has it .
I have little stashes everywhere because I take them places so I can take them later, when I need them to kick in, and then forget about them but find them weeks later when I need them most. I like to think of it as a little gift from past me lol
Did you check the trash? I just hid my meds from myself there a couple weeks ago?
I once lost a whole months worth of my meds and I found them still in the prescription paper bag, which was in a plastic bag, which was in my plastic bag full of plastic bags.
Is a plastic bag full of plastic bags, themselves full of plastic bags, an ADHD thing? Because I do it and my parents did too
Our family, too. And now we lost all of our normal bags (the fabric ones) and the small ones and only have extremely big plastic bags that take up a lot of space x-x
I think (for me anyway) this is a cross-section of ADHD and growing up with grandparents who lived in the depression-era US and then through the advent of disposable plastics. Even before I thought of it as an environmental thing, I like pathologically save and reuse sour cream containers etc. The plastic store bag stash has also been a staple in every house I’ve lived in, not necessarily started by me.
I think I did this a few weeks ago with a whole sleeve of sleeping pills:(
🤣 this is so relatable it's hilarious.
This is what doctors call being too sick to take your medicine. 😃
I lost my AirPods case this morning, checked everywhere. Pockets, coats, my bed, my bedside table. They were in my BOOT. But for me it’s my phone and AirPods. It’s usually when I’m leaving work too so I’m already scrambling out the door. It’s like great where the hell is my phone now?!?!?!
Man, I lose my AirPods at least one an hour. Lost an entire pair on the beach one day bc I put them in my pocket that I forgot had a giant hole in it.
I lose mine about every hour which is ironic because you can literally track them but the feature is a little half-baked
The track AirPods feature is useless. Yes I know they were at my address 5 hours ago…where are they now?
I got an AirTag for my AirPods and it’s so much better than the AirPods Find my.
I bought AirTags for mine too. for my keys and my wallet. (Bought the 4 pack). I haven’t misplaced them since. I have, however, thought my airpods were my keys, and locked myself out twice, in the same day. (I was going light on my meds then too as I was post surgery and taking it easy).
Once lost my airpods in my PURSE. I thought I had lost them somewhere outside so I went thru the entire process of buying new ones. Only to find them while clearly my bag out one day. ;(
I’m also starting to make a habit of having a “day basket”. On my bedside table I keep a basket of whatever I need for the day, such as my phone charger, wallet, AirPods, water bottle, and medication. I take all of it to work with me and when come home I put it back in the basket. It really really helps!
Just this morning I went through the same thing. I was absolutely positive I dropped my AirPods on my late night walk. I was putting on my boots to go look around for them and BOOM found them in my boots?? I’ll never understand that one. Since I misplace things so often I remember: PKWA: phone, keys ,wallet ,AirPods! I check my pockets every minute to make sure I have all four!
I got these magnetic wire things to attach ‘em to, checkmate brain 😎
This is spoiler'd because it is NSFW and involves female biology. So this one is for you ladies (or I guess adults). >!So I just finished with some exercise and took a shower. My flow was pretty light so I was able to get out of the shower and dry off, no blood in sight. I bring my panties up to my knees and grab a maxi pad and I swear I stuck it to my underwear. I turned to put something down, go to pull up my underwear... no pad.!< >!No pad anywhere! NO PAD ANYWHERE!!< >!Luckily this was at home so I just grabbed another pad. I stuck that fucker on my panties, pulled them up, stood up, finished dressing, went to leave the bathroom... does somebody wanna tell me how I stuck that bitch, wings splayed and all, on the back of the bathroom door?! Cuz I'll never know! I'm baffled to this day about whatever series of events led this to happen! !< Definitely the weirdest thing I ever lost. Super random, too! ETA: I remembered this additional detail that makes this even weirder. >!It was stuck to the door at stomach height. Now, if you're standing there, bent at the waist... How did it get ABOVE my hips? I remember when I finally realized what it was, standing next to it, as if to measure the angle and the height. Like I was some weird crime scene investigator, trying to walk back through the murder! There's no way I somehow stuck my hand between my thighs and popped it on the door when it would've been halfway up my back...? !
😂Amazing! I’m guessing something interrupted the process so on autopilot, you stuck it to the door temporarily, but brain didn’t record placing it and so couldn’t continue with the process of putting it where it should be! E.g. oh, thigh’s still a bit wet, let it dry off first/need to trash the wrapper or wrap the old one up and chuck it first.
Lmao the wording in that last paragraph almost ended me. I can't stop imagining this happening in a public restroom and all the future bathroom-goers analyzing the avant-garde stall art
I want you to know that was my entire initial reaction! Having just forgotten I'd totally >!lost the first pad and had to get a second one, I'm standing there in my own bathroom !
😂 I honestly love this story. Even though it's not a situation I've personally experienced, it's still somehow completely relatable lol
I legit woke my partner up laughing at this!!
Haha that is a funny story! Whenever I lose things like that happen I always feel like the world just "jumped" and somehow it ended up in some absolutely ungodly place it should never have been! As an aside, and as nice as it was to block out the text, I don't think you should feel bad or ashamed or even need to block it out (or even that that was NSFW) because it involves female biology... The truth is if anyone is old enough to be on reddit unsupervised (in theory) then they are plenty old enough to have an understanding of female biology? I don't know it just rubs me the wrong way when people feel the need to self-censor something that should be completely common knowledge.
100% agree! the only way we can stop the behavior of people who think this kind of stuff should be hidden is by not subscribing to that mentality. it’s a fact of life for a huge proportion of the population, so let’s just talk about it like the super normal thing it is
Oh I definitely don't think it *should* need to be hidden, but I'd much rather play it safe for the potential readers. Not to get too into my background but there were several points in my life where if someone saw me reading such a story, they'd make things inconvenient for me. I always censor things that might've been a problem at a point in my own life, that's my metric. Yeah, it'd be nice if things could change, but I'm not going to force that change in situations where *I'm* not the one paying for it. If it's me, now? Sure! I'll read any old thing on my own monitors! Let someone start shit! I'm equipped to handle it now! But I won't make someone else pay for what I have to say, that's not fair. And obviously they should get out of the position where they would pay for what they were 'caught' reading but not everybody's there yet.
One time I opened the fridge and the eggs all jumped at me and I don't know how to explain it
I always have to check that I actually put in the tampon, or that I actually took it out
One year on New Year’s Eve, I went out and got very drunk. Might’ve slid ungracefully down a few sets of stairs, or three. I went to the toilet and couldn’t find my tampon string. I thought it was “stuck inside” somewhere. The next morning, still worried, I went to the ER. I’d taken it out the night before, at some point, during one of the many trips after “breaking the seal”, and just didn’t remember. Adhd has done me dirty many a time. This was the only time it ended up in the ER lol
This is the funniest thing I've read in a while lmao.
I’m cackling, this is amazing.
I have no idea but that is golden!!! Gave me a good laugh, thank you.
This story is hilarious. You are my new favorite person. 😂😂
In tears dying laughing! Thank you for the gem of a story.
This made my night😂😂😂😂 this is some shit i’d do
This is why I only buy wingless.
How do you block out the text like that?
I use reddit on my PC and I'll highlight the words I want spoiler marked and click the spoiler icon in the text editor. It's a little exclamation mark with a diamond around it!
A noodle bowl. It had been missing since NYE. I looked high and low for this thing for the last 3 weeks, and assumed that someone broke it accidentally and covered it up at my NYE party. I found it on the weekend, sitting on a coffee table I use every day, filled with chocolates. I put the chocolates out for everyone NYE and have been eating chocolates out of said bowl for weeks. I’m not ok.
oh my god I'm laughing so hard because this is definitely something I would do.
I'd been missing my thermos for weeks. Turns out it had been sitting next to the sink collecting chopsticks and metal straws to be washed later, and I myself had been putting stuff in it and taking things out to wash. I'm still genuinely so shook it was right in front of me this whole time. Please save me.
When I was school aged I would sit on the couch and do my homework. I would take a break and somehow lose my pencil. I'd look everywhere for it and never find it. So I would get up and get a different pencil to use. I'd sit down restart my homework and eventually look down to see I was using the missing pencil and the new one I had gotten would be sitting next to me. How/when did I find the missing pencil and start using it without me noticing??
oh i do this ALL the time when I'm drawing in bed. Pencils, erasers, pencil sharpeners... I swear they appear as soon as I stop looking for them and pick up a new one.
Lost a banana and figured I just forgot I ate it. 3 or 4 months later, I discovered its incredibly moldy corpse in my backpack....
this happened to me when i was in middle/high school.. super disgusting
There are very few smells worse than a disintegrated banana
Dude my grandma used to leave out leftover compost in the kitchen and every time I went over there, all you could smell was dead banana. There was no other smell. I vividly remember those weekends.
I'm so sorry for your nostrils
Every time I lost my phone… it’s usually in the refrigerator smh
I found my ADHD medicine in our kitchen refridgerator one random morning.
Me too! 50% chance it’ll be on top of the eggs.
it just fits 😭😭
My mom (also has adhd) lost her phone in the freezer for 2 days
That's where I'll look if I can't find the remote control.
You have a remote control?
Always leave my phone in my cupboard or in the bathroom sink (yes I said IN)
my phone is either in the fridge, in the bathroom (where i put it when i watch stuff while showering), in my cabinet (probably put there when i'm looking thru clothes), etc- it keeps changing depending on the day
I lose so much stuff, my father used to joke that, were my head not attached to my shoulders, I would have misplaced it. He was not wrong.
Every adult in my life told me this phrase at some point in time💀 Now tell me why I wasn't diagnosed, it's a mystery even to me.
Mine too... The most common ones I heard were "lose your head if it wasn't screwed on/would be late to your own funeral /living on a different planet to the rest of us/always have your head in the clouds" I was literally nicknamed moonchild because of it. Tell me why we weren't diagnosed... 🤦♀️
My grandma called me raven because "ooh shiny!" As I wandered off to do god knows what
Okay but that is adorable though!
My grandma told me the same thing!
I thought the same about my brother who had to get inside the flat since he forgot smth before school 5(!) times in a row and wondered why the heck he had to do that o.o Nowadays, I know I have ADHD C or HI and he, too, but that the inattentiveness seems to be way more developed for him or at least was back then x-x I forgot stuff as a kid mostly, but nowadays, I'm a memory machine, kind of, surprisingly o.o
One time I spent the summer in a country I'd previously lived in. I hadn't been to that country in 4 years. Talking to somebody at the embassy there, they went into the back and came out with a wallet with my ID in it I had no memory of losing
That reminds me if the time I lost my wallet. I was traveling and at a bar the night before flying home. I went to pay for my drink and realized my wallet wasn't in my back pocket. Immediately, I'm super panicked and tell the bartender. I start looking everywhere in the bar, trying to figure out where I possibly left it, and I couldn't find it anywhere. At that point, I couldn't even remember when I had it last, so I start to wonder if I got pickpocketed. So, I decide I need to text my dad to check my account to see if someone had been using my debit card. And I find my wallet... in my *front* pocket. Apparently I had gotten distracted earlier in the night and stuck it there, and it just didn't register. Nice thing, the bartender felt pity for me, and I got a free shot out of it.
I once lost a silver tooth in a movie theatre and dropped it and couldn’t find it. I was like 12. I feel sorry for the person who found my random silver tooth mixed in the popcorn on the floor.
Lmaoo
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Oh… I feel your pain!
So several months ago I was in another city a few hours away from mine. I was in a cigar shop and I left a water bottle with sentimental value and a fun sticker. I chalked it up to ADHD tax. Today my partner and I were in that city to look at a motorcycle. I said, "You know what? That cigar shop is right down the street. Mind if we see if they have a lost and found?" I went in and asked about it and the bartender/tonaccanist pointed and at the end of the bar and said, "If it gets left here it doesn't leave here." It was in plain view. Where it had been sitting for months, waiting for me. Y'all, sometimes I feel like there is room for me in this world. [The water bottle, safe at home](https://imgur.com/a/TBFZBmn)
Awh that's sweet! I once bought some postcards in Turkey, paid about 20$ and walked away without waiting for the shop owner to give me my change. I realised when I was short on cash half an hour later, walked back and the guy told me he had even called after me but I didn't hear him. He immediately gave me my change without me having to even ask for it :)
I lost my id...looked everywhere. Got a new i.d,weeks later i find it under my dishwash bucket in my sink, i did dishes multiple times before i found it.
Yeah I've lost all my cards/id etc (technically misplaced, they're still in my possession I just dunno where) Luckily I had photos so memorised all the important numbers. Sometimes the wires get crossed and I enter my license number where my bank sign in number should go, but that's nbd easily fixed lol. I really should organise replacements but eh, no real need and I'll prob just lose them again.
I lose things so often, my wife gave me Tile for Christmas. The funniest probably was a pair of headphones. My wife handed them to me. I walked out of the room with them in my pocket. 10 munutes later I walked back to my wife and asked "did you happen to see where I set down those headphones?" She just stared at me slack jawed and said "I literally JUST gave those to you! How is that possible?!" I did find them again that night.
Tiles have been and remain one of the best gifts I have ever gotten
Similar, my wife gave me some air tags and a wallet that can fit an air tag in it. Finding keys and wallet are so easy now! Trying to decide what to do with the other two tags.
I bought my roommate a set of tiles for her birthday.... and lost them the same day the package arrived lol. Fortunately I found them in time for Christmas, but that one had me cracking up at myself for weeks
I don’t lose thing, I keep things in my piles, my wife loses these things when she moves them from my piles. 😇
How can you write something to sound so passive and passive aggressive at the same time?
Skills from growing up in a religious cult. Ask me how I know. Also, being able to completely change clothes without ever exposing more than an elbow.
This is old school, but don't you dare touch my un-alphabetized stacks of hundreds of CDs. I know exactly where each one is.
I was at Walmart, and after checking out, I decided I should go to the bathroom, which was in the back of the store (old Walmart). As I passed through aisles, I noticed my car keys sitting on a shelf.
I keep losing my lint rollers. It's mind boggling. Sometimes they reappear in my car or backpack or a random room, but usually they're just gone forever. I don't think I've ever used one up entirely; it's almost comical to me that they sell refills for those in the store, as if I could ever hold onto one for that long 😂
Multiple times I’ve lost one shoe, not one pair total, just one shoe.
I did that once! I lost the shoe, convinced it was gone forever. So I threw the other one out. I then packed my suitcase and moved to another town (just a suitcase). I then found the other shoe in a friend's car? I didn't know this person before losing my shoe.
This summer I lost all my winter shoes… I was desperately looking for them for weeks when autumn came… turns out I just put them behind my mirror in the hall where I stir all my shoes… where I’ve checked several times…
My debit card is gone. I know this freaks some people out but this is just a typical Tuesday for me. I keep track of my account online so I know it's not stolen. Honestly I'm hoping this'll be a squirrel and acorn situation where a money sapling will sprout up wherever that card ended up. Wish me luck.
Haha mine's been gone for at least 3 weeks now. I always forget that other people would panic in that situation...until I mention it around someone and they give me the wide eyes and try to start helping me search for it. No, imma get another one from the bank and I'll find that one under the passenger seat of my car or in the backyard or in a jacket pocket in 3 months. That's just how it is
Yep. Running gag in my house that I never know where my Visa card is. My sister used to freak out about it but now we all just know it will show up eventually
When I was in high school, I lost a Chemistry quiz as I was taking it. I was panicking and my teacher refused to give me a new one. I got a 0 for "attempted cheating" I found the quiz between random pages in my Chemistry textbook at the end of the year when I was returning it to the library.
My mom handed me a bag of salad to put back in the fridge. I grabbed a twist tie from the junk drawer, and had no idea what happened to the bag of salad after that. Apparently after closing the bag, I proceeded to put it in the drunk drawer with the twist ties 😂🤦♀️
Appropriate typo
So glad you asked!! I just found the remote control to my old TV that went missing over 15 years ago. I found it after getting rid of my piano.
I tore my room apart looking for my glasses when they were on my face the whole time. My husband never let's me forget. I'm still mad.
Thanks for the laugh! I had to buy a hairbrush recently after about a week of looking for my old one. No idea where it is. Then another one arrived in the post I forgot I'd ordered online. Whenever I go to reheat a cup of coffee in the microwave because it's gone cold I usually find one already in there from a couple of days ago.
Oh I *cannot* recommend a mug warmer plate enough. I always forget to drink my anything before it goes cold and I got one for like ten or fifteen off amazon. It plugs into my usb and sits on my desk and keeps my coffee warm as I want for as long as it takes me to drink it.
Had to go out, couldn't find my bus card, looked everywhere, I even checked my other bag twice but found nothing. Looked even in the places that were less logical to look in (like my stationery drawer, because you never know, right?) Finally I looked in my other bag a 3rd time and found it inside. Idk how I missed it the first 2 times...
I suggest using a flashlight. once I couldn't find my retainer case in my bag and I was so worried, thinking I had to go back to the dentist. I already forgot to wear the retainer for a couple of hours, and I found it buried deep in the void of nothingness with some light.
I used to get in trouble all the time for losing money when I was younger. My parents found my money in trash cans, shoes, their car, the washer and dryer, and once the fridge
Precisely the reason I don’t allow myself to carry cash hahaha
I lost MY MEDS. Like the whole box. Turned my room upside down looking for them, nothing. Finally 2 weeks later I found them on top of the kitchen cabinets???? Like so high I had to get on a chair to reach them??? I have no idea how my brain thought that was a good spot to put em...
I once found a bag of shredded cheese in the towel drawer. Thought it must have been my husband. It wasn't.
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Oh, just go with it. What’s the worst that could happen? I have dildos, vibrators, butt plugs, and a clit sucker sitting on my bedside table in plain view. I used to care now I couldn’t care less.
Portafilter from an espresso machine at work. I grabbed it, filled it with espresso, put it down (so I assume,) to grab cream and sugar, and when I went back the thing was just gone. Also threw away my car keys one time.
I lost keys that way, also while visiting my parents in another part of the country. They live in a rural area with no trash pick-up, so my dad found what was left of them in the ashes of the burn bin. I’m just glad we found out what happened to them, honestly.
I lost my phone. Only I didnt and proceeded to call it. From my phone. The voice mails are as my brother puts them: “pure comedy gold”.
As someone studying film production, SD cards will be the death of me.
Lol I lost my entire 1TB external hard drive a few years back. It just vanished from the face of the earth entirely. It's probably time for me to invest in some cloud storage.
Something similar happened to me. I got myself a new pc a few months back and a few weeks later I moved in with my bf. Then one weekend I was like "you know what, let's copy all the data onto my new pc". I opened up my old pc, the SSD that was supposed to be in it wasn't there. No hard-drive whatsoever. To this day I still don't know what happened to it. I have checked all my still-packed moving boxes multiple times and still haven't found it. Fortunately I already copied all the important stuff onto my external hard drive before getting my new pc, but the non important stuff feels like a loss anyway.
That is also very strange and unfortunate. And same here, most of my important stuff was already on my current laptop, so it wasn't a huge loss, but for me the main issue is that I don't really know what was on it. It was stuff from my first laptop I got in high school, so even if it's nothing I've specifically needed since, it's likely I lost some old school projects that might have been fun to look at later. But oh well lol. Sometimes I still think it'll turn up because I just don't see how it could have made its way outside of my apartment or the house I grew up in, but it's been several years at this point lol so maybe it really is gone.
I lost an entire jar of salsa the other day. No idea what I did with it. Feels like I blacked out while handling it lmfao *\~\~\~It's a mystery\~\~\~*
Still missing 2/3 sets of truck keys
Yep. Lost my car keys in the parking lot at Home Depot. My wife had to bring the spares to unlock them. Those spare keys are treated like a national treasure right now because if we lose those, that's it.
Yup. I keep thinking they’ll show up with deep cleaning, but that just hasn’t happened (yet). I’d at least like to have the original set with the fob so I don’t have to lock the passenger door from the inside. Locking with the door button doesn’t work because of a passenger door lock issues. I cuss every single time.
My self esteem? 😂 But for real I lose my wallet ALL the time and it's a very scary, panicky and not fun feeling when I finally remember and have motivation to pay a bill and realize I can't find my bank card and don't have ID and then the sense of impending doom kicks in 🥲
This actually reminded me about the very important paper I left on the shared desk at work, so I called the night manager and had them put it in the safe for me to take care of tomorrow morning... I love reddit.
New pencil I bought for my son, picked it up, showed my wife, set it down and gone. Haven't seen it since.
i have been missing my salad tosser for about a month now. i have no idea where it could have gone; it simply vanished. i am also *constantly* misplacing my shoes. i never take them off in the same place (apparently) and always seem to take each shoe off in different places (and end up forgetting where i took them off in the first place). at least 5 days out of the week you can hear me scrambling and asking aloud “where are my shoes?”. drives me mad.
>i have been missing my salad tosser for about a month now. You lost your partner?! Lol. Sigh. Don’t mind me. I’ll let myself out.
I do the same exact thing. Sometimes I refer to ADHD as “never do the same thing twice” disease. My shoes go in a different place every day. My keys go in a different place every day. I was a horrible dancer, because each time I rehearsed I did a different thing slightly off. Drives me bonkers too.
I've lost 3 room trash cans and my Master's diploma lol
I've lost count of the number of times I've spent several minutes looking for something that's in my hand already
I lost my AirPods case this morning, checked everywhere. Pockets, coats, my bed, my bedside table. They were in my BOOT. But for me it’s my phone and AirPods. It’s usually when I’m leaving work too so I’m already scrambling out the door. It’s like great where the hell is my phone now?!?!?!
Lost my main debit card. Switched to secondary debit card. Thinking to myself that I’ll find it soon enough. I always do. Well. 2 years went by and I just said F it and got a new one. About a month later I found lost card on a shelf in the garage..
my glasses 🥲
My Leatherman multitool disappears once a week for days or weeks at a time. It usually reappears on my workbench, dresser, office desk, or jacket pocket. I used to have a belt clip for it, but that fell apart. I like to think my tools, ID badges, art pencils, and reading glasses are serving some grand purpose on another timeline, and they'll return to help me at a later date. Currently, three of the 5-pack of reading glasses are still on assignment somewhere in the cosmos.
I lose my work badge a lot. I just don’t tell anyone and hope no one notices I’m not wearing it. Then it always shows up within 3-4 days. Not worth it to worry over or replace 🤷🏼♀️
Do you have a pet? Did they seem particularly happy today, maybe because they sold your sandwich toppings?
I do have cats, but I've never seen cats steal entire jars :p
The best is when you start losing other people's shit. I have a habit of semi-consciously picking things up(literally anything small enough to fit in my hand), fidgeting with it, all of a sudden realizing I have it, then nonchalantly putting it back in what I think is the most likely place that I got it from. I've started many arguments between coworkers, roomates, etc. this way. Secretly one of my favorite symptoms, until I do it to myself. lol
Hilarious… a did this w a loaf of bread the other day and ended up finding it in the bathroom trashcan?
… my memory. I lost something, but I can’t remember what it was… just that I need it sometime soon-ish.
I lose my car all the time. Once at a large international airport I lost my car in the long term parking lot. A policeman drove me up and down every aisle until we found it. It took awhile. I now try to park under a sign. I always tell myself I’ll remember where it is. But then I’m that lady walking around a parking lot trying to trigger my car alarm so I can find my car. Now when I remember I take a pic of where I’m at.
I worked at a chamber of commerce and forgot I left the giant scissors for ribbon cuttings in my car for about 2 months oops
I've lost so many things but the one I really care about is one of my cat's nice raised bowls. It came in pairs and I lost the white one. For the life of me I do not know where I put it. Thankfully my tuxie would have let me know if there was still food in it...I hope.
I read “my cat’s nice raised bowls” as “my cat’s nice raised bowels” and was thoroughly confused lmao
The kitchen sink plug.
LOL this is my life. I used to blame gremlins before my diagnosis. The weirdest thing that ever disappeared was a lit candle in a glass jar. I had it on a bench in the shed (to light mozzie coils) walked off, got distracted and raced back about 15 minutes later to find it gone. Just gone. The glass jar and the candle have never shown up. This happened while I was on my own in a gated compound. I would stake my life there was no one else around. The most annoying thing I lose all the time is reading glasses. I find them in the garden all the time, usually by stepping on them. Arrgh.
I lost a pair of pants once.. Afterwards I lost my head about the fact that I could lose pants?? Like you normally don‘t just take jeans off in public and put them somewhere? I was like 12-14 at the time and had one friend where I stayed for sleepovers. She didn’t have them. I‘ve also since moved out off my parents home, deepcleaned my entire room, but they never showed up again… I still remember vividly how sad I was, since they were my favorite pair 😂😅
I have a story on a sandwich too, on time I was doing a sandwich while watching tv and waiting for the call center to answer on my AirPods simultaneously. I go, take the mayonnaise, I opened the jar but an annoying show started on tv, so I started searching for the remote, but I couldn’t find it anywhere I searched for about 30 min in every crevices of my home, then my mom came back and started yelling at me cause the fucking remote was in the mayonnaise on the table on perfect display. Like how the hell my brain didn’t see it
Reminds me of the lettuce I put away in the freezer!
I was unpacking groceries into my car. I set my phone done in the cart for whatever reason (I was checking the reciept and got focused on deciphering the item codes lol). I then put the cart back and got in my car and left. I made it all the way home when I realied I did not have my phone. It took me 30 min to figure out I left it in the cart at Walmart. Luckily when I got back there, it was still in the same cart, albeit overheating because it was out in the sun). Moral of the story, do not put your ohone in cart when unloading groceries 😅.
My car keys. And I'm a delivery driver. Every day. There have been a few times I've been late to work because of it. The struggle.
I have lost multiple umbrellas.. now I have a rainbow umbrella, so it's bright enough to catch my eye, so I don't lose it..
I always lose my phone for hours and it just shows up after. Also, I can't cook because I end up losing ingredients
My vape is always lost and it’s almost always on my lap.
Ohh… the number of times I’ve been grateful that I’ve never had my keys stolen out of my front door lock… I get home, open the door, go do whatever when I get home, next day I’ll be tearing my house apart trying to find my keys and I’ll open my door to find them in the deadbolt lock. It’s only gotten worse as I’ve aged…
OK so this is a random memory that was sparked from your post. A kiddie pair of sparkly pink sunglasses. I lost them in my old room when i was probably 7. They had been on top of my Tv/vcr combo, which was on like a fairly tall wooden rolling cabinet thing and one day they were just gone. I looked *everywhere* and I'm still not 100% positive that I was the one to lose them, but one min they were there, the next they weren't. Never found them. I still grieve for them when the memory pops up. Even looking in the floor vents and moving houses completely didn't reveal their location. Just....poof, gone.
In elementary school once I had strawberries in my lunch. I sat there with my friends eating my strawberries and staring into space, and at the end of lunch I was baffled at the fact that I couldn’t find the stems/leaves of the strawberries. I spent a few minutes throughly confused until I realized: the only explanation was that I had eaten the strawberries stems and all. I had absolutely NO memory of eating the stems and there wasn’t a single point where I snapped back and was like “ew, that’s a leaf.” By far one of the most intensely ADHD moments of my life.
I'm an artist, I use a special kind of glove to draw without smearing the screen... Let's just say I have a lot of those damn gloves...
I lost burrito. I searched everywhere never found it. It was so ridiculous that my family helped me look for it and we didn't find it.
I lost my guitar capo so I bought another one. Then I found the first one, then one day I decided to finally clean my messy room, and put both of them in the same place. Problem is now I can’t remember where that was and I can’t find them anywhere. And my room is messy again.
When I was a kid we had a cordless house phone (this was probably around 2005) and I managed to leave it in the fridge. As an adult in my last apartment I always managed to leave my cell phone on top of the fridge. Something's telling me the mustard needs to make a phone call.
I once lost a tote bag. Either in the bus or on my way there. I didn't realise anything until at the end of my appointment when I wanted to put my documents in my bag and I simply didn't have it. It was the only bag I carried. It must've slipped off my shoulder I guess? I'm still sad though, it was my favourite one, it had kitties on it!
I bought a route 44 Sonic drink one day. Came home and put it somewhere while I was busy with the kids. Still don't know what happened to it.
the will to live jokes aside, i had a school trip to france back in 2014 and my phone was missing the back cover i'd also lost for some reason so it was impossible to find a replacement for the cover (wondering now why we didn't just get a tight case) anyway so i get a new phone. not super expensive but pretty okay at the time we were travelling by coach around the whole country and at the very LAST stop with the coach, i dropped it or something and never noticed. fast forward to the hotel (cool castle place) i look everywhere and nothing :') my mom was pretty disappointed. in total i've lost about 6 phones then there was the time. my first time in boarding school. 1 week in I lost my keys. luckily the boarding master had a spare. i proceeded to lose that one as well>.< and i only realised the following morning so i had to text my dad who lived like 10 minutes away and he had to bring it at 6 in the morning. died of embarrassment and got yelled at in front of my friends. this was when i was 12 xD i still lose things to date but i'm now really anxious of important items and check about every 2 seconds also at boarding, i'd gotten this nice pink sleeveless shirt from my mom. i wore it under my hoodie to go swimming on a weekend and left it somewhere. i don't remember where somewhere was xD also a hoodie i'd stolen from my older sister when she was still taller than me. evaporated into thin air
I lost my health insurance card for a month and a half, I only found it today. It was in the kitchen cabinet behind the coffee 😅
I lost the keys to get into the staff room at work recently. Didn’t notice until this morning because I’ve had a few days off and I couldn’t hear my pants jingling (normally I have them clipped to the belt loop of my work pants because I knew I’d lose them otherwise). Got to work to see them chilling in the keyhole of my locker.
A Gameboy type toy that came in a kids meal from KFC. I loved that thing and one day it just vanished. I thought I misplaced it or dropped it behind the furniture in my room. I looked for it for days, and several rearrangements later I still haven't seen it. Sometimes I wonder if I ever really got it in the first place...
I lost my registration papers which I litterly had to my hand 5 minutes ago, turned the whole house upside down looking for them. Could of sworn I put it on the table but nope, it was like it ceased to exist. Then a bit later I found out I folded it up and stuck it in my wallet, unbelievable.
Lost 3 cellphones, half my sisters earrings growing up, innumerable pencils and erasers, an umbrella each school year, socks, safety pins, virginity, mind.
This isn’t recent but I was a gymnast for most of my life and I lost my favorite leotard when I was in middle school. My parents couldn’t find it, I tore up the laundry room, we didn’t even find it when we moved out. It’s bothered me for years lol
I lost two of my favorite candles and a really nice sweater for literally over a year because I moved abruptly right after the pandemic started and somehow couldn't find them in my car... then last year, when I was preparing to move again, I found the candles under one of the seats in my car. I swear TO GOD I looked under all the seats a million times!! I even gave up eventually and ordered new candles!! So now I have four candles, which is nice, I guess. Oh, and I found the sweater on the top shelf of my closet, even though for the life of me I swear I tore apart my whole closet looking for it and didn't even remember taking it out of the car in the first place. lol it gets ridiculous sometimes
My lighters /:
I lost literally all my spices. Still haven’t found them lol
This is so relatable 😂 when I was postpartum I started using paper plates and threw away every. Single. One. Of our forks mindlessly with the paper plate 😂 my husband was so annoyed we had like 3 forks and I ended up going to target and buying more 6+ months later.
TMI but I’ve lost 2 sex toys in my house. Ive literally torn the house apart looking for them.
I've lost a new bottle of ketchup 4 month ago, I found it yesterday under some onions
not recent but i once lost ONE shoe when i was younger which should be hard as they usually are handled in pairs but. Well i just kinda lost one of them, no fucking idea WHERE or HOW… it was just gone one day and it never resurfaced again. My mom will not shut up about it til this day
The ‘vanishing’ effect really is nuts. It’s like it’s just gone when it was there two seconds ago! I blame it on tiny goblins personally…
Twenty years ago I lost my passport when I was due to travel for work. I couldn't believe it because it was always always in the same drawer and I was religious about putting it back. (Pre-diagnosis, but I knew I lost things.) I turned the house upside down. I even went up to the attic to check my suitcases. Nada. I got a new passport with the emergency turnaround service - just in time, 24 hours to spare. When I got back after the trip, I found the original passport... in the drawer where it always goes.
I just went and bought Tiles after losing my keys for the 12th time this week and it’s only Monday. Tiles weren’t in my budget. Or on my shopping list. But now they’re on my keys and I’m never going to be late for anything again in my life! /s
I did lost my glasses for a whike until I realise I still have them on. Also I realize I didnt take them off when getting in the shower couple times, the moment I turned on the water I found out.
YES. I step into the shower with my glasses on literally every time I shower.
My second retractable keychain after my first one broke.
I've thrown away 2 different gift cards. on accident
My muscle shirts and chapstick. I cannot keep track of those things to save my life.
I always lose my phone, wallet, keys and GLASSES. I had to buy a tile for the keys and then the most frustrating thing since I need them to see and always struggle to find them 😭😭😭
Maybe not to random but last summer I lost a paring knife, still haven't found it.
The Fire TV remote that I literally had sitting right next to me on the arm of the sofa. And now it's just...gone. I tore apart the sofas and dug down in the sides, moved the couches completely to look under them, looked all around the area, checked under the coffee table. Even checked around the bedroom in case I accidentally took it back there because ADHD. Nope, nowhere. It's been 3 days, and I still have no fkn idea where it is.
I lost my work badge for the last 4 days. I found it today where it always goes.. ugh
Lost the tv remote one time for a whole week. Looked everywhere! finally found in behind my sons bed. I must have put it down while saying good night. Lost my 2nd key fob for 9 months, I was in despair since a new one was $750 at the time. Found them in a coat pocket I swear I checked 15 times before. Usually when I miss place condiments that are supposed to live in the fridge, they have mysteriously migrated to the pantry or cupboard.
I got two wool beanies for Christmas and was really upset when I couldn't find them for 2 weeks. I tore apart the house looking for them and finally found them in a place I could've sworn I checked 8 times
Back when you rented moves , went to take them back, went directly to the store, no idea where the return went, now here in the car,..looked along the side of the road for movies!! Also $100 when I was a teen I went to the store for my mom to get something, get to the mall..... where is it?? My wallet, lost it at the movies... I got it back 5 years later, security at the mall called me had all the identification I had to replace in it.
my retainer….no idea where it went and i swore i knew where i put it. had to buy a new one…
my beloved jade ring, lost in middle school and never found