26 - "write everything down" and the ADHD "advice" that sticks

Meta image credit by Negative Space on Pexels Lately on Threads (yes, I know) there has been this talk of people dropping this sort of advice for ADHD: write. Write everything down. Ideas, lists, to-dos, dates and such. Because if you don't write them down you forget about them. One thing about me that I've noticed - to my own detriment - is that every time advice like this drops, there's a high chance I'm not going to stick to it. The "I have so many unused planners lying around" is a very common ADHDer problem that I unfortunately have and I make my own planners with my own hands, mind you. Though I won't bore anyone with the full account of how I struggle with keeping track of everything in my life. The idea of writing down everything isn't new to me. I've been writing down a lot of things from lists to tracking my birth control cycle for my PCOS (are we still using PCOS or are we going to start using PMOS?). Of all these "things ADHD people can do to alleviate their ADHD", writing…