According to an ADHD coach there's a household habit (which I'm hoping is pretty widespread and it's not just me that does it) which might be a sign that you have the condition.
ADHD coach Jeff Rice took to TikTok to say that it was 'almost universal for people with ADHD' to do this one thing which a lot of people likely do.
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He explained that the thing was known as 'laundry clutter', but Jeff said he always loved the phrase 'floordrobe'.
You've probably heard the term yourself, with it being a pretty good descriptor for using the bedroom floor as a place to store freshly cleaned clothes.
To defend the honour of fellow floordrobe aficionados here, it's not like we're leaving messy clothes all over the place as these are freshly washed garments.
"ADHD floordrobes exist for two reasons, I think," Jeff said of the habit as he explained why he thought it might be a sign.
"The first has to do with the clothes which are not quite dirty. Usually we leave these things out because it's going to act as a visual cue to remind us this is not quite dirty and I want to wear it again.
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"The problem with visual cues is we become visually adapted to them after we've seen them a couple times and so our dirty clothes accumulate into a floordrobe.
"Another common reason for having a floordrobe is because the act of putting away clean clothes is one that our ADHD brains just do not get attached to.
"It's not interesting, novel, urgent or challenging."
He said that it was something he put off until it was an urgent matter, and said he timed himself putting away his clothes to make it seem like a much smaller job in his head.
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Speaking as someone who is currently taking advantage of the floordrobe, it's a handy place to put clothes which need to make room for fresh laundry on the drying rack.
Plus they'll get put away in their proper place at a later date, and since that'll happen at some point it's basically fine for them to occupy a pile on the floor which looks messy but is actually quite neat and organised.
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On top of that if I do need an article of clothing from the floordrobe then all I need to is reach down to my bedroom floor and pick it up, there's no need to be faffing around with draws, doors and hangers.
Even better, lots of things which occupy my floordrobe are items of clothing I wear regularly so they stay in circulation between my floor, my body, my laundry basket, my washing machine, my drying rack and then my floor again.
It's the circle of life, sort of.
Topics: Home, Mental Health
Joe Harker