After reading the comments here, I’m happy to have found my home of fello neurodivergents.
Exactly seven times, every time, or else I might get a disease or become mortally injured in a freak accident.
Nah, bro. That one’s just you, actually. 😬
Did you ever think of cutting down this large image to its actual content, or, even better, just reproduce the text as actual text?
Here I fixed it
Dark mode + excess space trimmed
OP could have simply typed those few words an post them as actual text, and saved the world megawatts of power?
I need to feel my hand has closed it so when I shut doors, I try reopening them twice
No, but I also crop images to avoid wasted black space.
If you have difficulty remembering if you did a daily task, like locking the door, you are supposed to do something novel when you lock it, to be sure. So maybe today you spin around in a circle when you lock it, maybe tomorrow you tap your forehead four times, the next day you whistle a tune, and so on.
You can repeat novel cues over time, the trick is just doing a different thing every day so the action itself stands out as a reminder that you did the important task.
I usually just sing a little song. “I locked the door, I locked the door. HALLELUYAH!” A different song each time, so it’s kinda like your approach.
I lock my door with a fob in this building, but it auto-locks half the time anyway. I can’t operate the elevator to the parking garage or the roof without that fob: I can go to the lobby, but that’s it. If I’m locked out, all failure modes point to a fire escape stairway and a crashbar to the outside.
I’m FAR more at risk of locking myself out than leave anything unlocked, and I can phone my wife to code-6 the front door like I’m a sexy pizza delivery.
The amount of times I’ve driven around the block to see if i closed the garage is way higher than the number of times that I’ve actually forgotten to. Which is zero.
This is one thing that smartlocks are incredibly good for.
Did I lock my door? Let me check my phone. Looks like it’s locked. Yay.
Looks like it’s unlocked. Better lock it. Click. It’s locked now. Yay.
I don’t go back to close it. I know it’s closed. I go back for the peace of mind.
9/10 times
I consider this to be a self esteem issue. I made the decision to start “gambling” on myself, and bet that I did. There are extenuating circumstance, of course. But in general I’ve deemed it more important to believe in myself than to make extra super certain that I did what I already know I did.
That’s a good outlook. I stir in some extra awareness of and intention in these moments to help.
