when you have ADHD a common thing is poor proprioception, which means basically a bad sense of where my stupid elbows knees and toes end and where corners of tables begin. At the best of times, I wind up with a bruise on my shin or a cut on my finger from some physical misestimation or another. But at other, non-best times, like if my ex would start to pile things along the side of a common path in the house*, or in the middle of a move and there are continually boxes placed in the most convenient place which is also the path my body is learning to traverse hundreds of times a day, or if I'm learning how the uneven steps out my back door feel to descend while trying to get out of the house quickly but instead I completely eat shit, ass over teakettle, I sustain actual physical damage.

Anyway, moving sucks but I'm only injured in two places right now instead of like five, and we're getting through most of it and shit is finding its permanent (or semipermanent) home.

*Once I had words and understanding for this, my ex and I had a great conversation and he Got it, and a lot of this kind of thing got way better.


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in reply to @wholemilk's post:

It's such a thing and it's not something I knew about til RECENTLY, and only due to the proliferation of ADHD #cOntEnT on the internet. It put so many pieces together for me. Now instead of feeling like I'm careless or A Bad Person™️ (I wish I were kidding), I can sometimes let it go. This is part of My Deal, it's a known thing, and I can take certain steps to mitigate, but never eliminate, these occurrences.
Right now I have a nearly faded but at one time bloody scrape on the top of my ankle, from the above eating shit on the stairs out my back door, and a huge healing scab on the small of my back from where I was crouched petting a pupper and stood up into the corner of a table very hard.

Be free! It's frustrating but it's real as hell!