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After telling someone to throw out yet another useless book of advice for neurodivergent people clearly written by someone who isn’t neurodivergent I have one tip re developing a habit w ADHD: make it really easy to implement. Kids dropping wrappers on floor? Put out more trash cans in those areas
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"Put the thing where your brain wants you to do the thing" is such a fucking basic rule, why is it so hard
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Adam Savage's book "Every Tool a Hammer" explicitly gives you permission to get a second x-acto knife and a second pair of pliers and leave a set at each spot you need them rather than wander around looking for where you last left The Tool and omg it is LIBERATING.
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exactly why we have 15 pairs of scissors and nail clippers in the house
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This may be weird of me, but honestly my oral hygiene improved when I decided to put a toothbrush at every sink and also in the shower.
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This is one of the things holding me back from getting an electric one. Unless I can somehow place it so it's grabbable from both sink and shower, something is going to suffer for it.
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So, I don't know your financial situation, but if you really want an electric one: could you just get two, and put one in each place?
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I'm not saying money solves everything, but it absolutely can solve some things, and removing a mental load is a legit use!
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My next house I just might sidestep the whole issue by installing a small shelf with an outlet below it just on the dry side of the shower so it's reachable from both locations.
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I mean, I get it, I've been a prof for years but I still spend money as if I'm a grad student, and it is remarkably difficult to for example buy the blueberries I'd prefer if the blackberries are on sale this week, but I'm happy to brainstorm ways for others to get around these types of blocks.
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I could, it's more convincing my brain that yes it is perfectly reasonable to have two mildly expensive appliances within about 6' of one another. Also the power and charging problem. I am as yet unconvinced by battery models.
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OK, so, alternative: get one for either the shower or the sink -- whichever you think you'd make more use of -- and use that as a test run about whether that particular model does what you want? And, if it doesn't, it's easier to let yourself buy a different one for the other place?
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