A Day In The Life 3.0: July 11, 2019

I was in 11th grade when my therapist gave me an assignment, ostensibly to see if we could pinpoint triggers to my depression: keep track of everything that happens in one day. Write it all down. Look for patterns. I’m not sure I found any patterns, because, like they say, observing something changes the observed. My day revolved around writing my day down. And I was too busy to feel depressed. Years later, while I was pregnant with Sam and working at the Museum, I got it into my head to do it again, and the results were so different and yet there were so many similarities, too. Both times, it was fun, it was memorable, and it’s fun to have a record of what a day in my life was like at those times.

I’ve often thought I should do it again, being in a completely different era of my life from the first two. But it was a tweet thread I saw on this past Thursday morning that set me off:

“Where Did Today Go?”
A Workday in the Life of ADHD (thread):

DISCLAIMER: No unsolicited advice, please. I am not looking to be told what I “should” be doing. I *know* what I should be doing, but I can’t get myself to do it consistently. That’s what makes #ADHD so frustrating.

— Dani Donovan (@danidonovan) July 9, 2019

A day at work with ADHD? I should write a Day in the Life again. I wonder how much the ADHD will show. And I kept thinking, the day had already started, but it was a good representative day in my life because I had both Outreach and desk duty at the library, and a big chunk at home with my kids in the middle, I’m DOING this! I decided at 11:00 that morning, as you will see below, because, in fact, I did this, and here, if you have the patience, are the results:

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