Cooking : adhd

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got tired of doing this so I just started to leave the box on the counter until after I've set a timer. And it gives you something else to do while your pasta or whatever cooks.

[–] suodrazah 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It needs to go from hand to trash. If it goes onto the counter it's there for days.

[–] EtherWhack 7 points 2 months ago

I just make sure the instructions are facing up when they go in the bin. Just needs a quick glance without any extra steps to distract and make you forget. (I got rid of the bin lids as my trash/recycle is usually dry and doesn't smell)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That better be from the pasta region of Italy, otherwise it's just sparkling noodles.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Sparkling noodles

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Stop spying me when I'm cooking!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I like how the eyes goes outside the face in this comic

[–] hakunawazo 10 points 2 months ago

Obligatory comment for all of them.

[–] samus12345 5 points 2 months ago

( . _ ) .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Agreed, that is my favourite feature of these

[+] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] SLVRDRGN 4 points 2 months ago

Of course the Ham Stroker learns to feel the hardness of a noodle ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] telllos 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Until you cook the one where your supposed to remove the water like yakisoba or jjajangmyon. :p

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I keep the packaging out until I’m done.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 6 points 2 months ago

I do the same and then forget to throw it away for a couple days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If I planned ahead I wouldn't be eating instant noodles in the first place!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

… Recycle ಥ_ಥ

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

i have been cutting and keeping one of the little instructions off of boxes of food that i buy regularly fer this vary reason

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I used to be like this. But at some point, you make enough of something that you just memorize it and you only end up back here when you try something new.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In that scenario the problem for me is when I accidentally think "how was I supposed to do that?". Everything falls apart then.

[–] Mango 4 points 2 months ago

I'm the quality director of a food packaging company and we have this trash can in the lab for samples we're done with but maybe not done with. We like to call it our filing cabinet. 🤣 We're always digging in that trash to check on things.

[–] samus12345 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Could also just be shit memory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

ADHD affects working memory a lot so that checks out.

[–] TotalFat 2 points 2 months ago

The other day, I saw an article suggesting memory might exist throughout the body and not just in the brain. I suppose your shit might contain memories. You might even call it shit memory. And after you drop a deuce, you may lose some memories. Retention takes on a whole new meaning!

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 2 months ago

First panel should be throw it in the trash first, then realize you need the cooking instructions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Take a photo of the instructions.

When you forget to do that, look up the product online, the cooking instructions should be there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Happened to me more than once...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NO, I'm not having AD(H)D!!! (But that's precisely how I do my cooking. 😬)

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Instead of putting it in the trash, why don't you figure out what you can put in the box to reuse or recycle it?

[–] lemmyman 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use pasta boxes to store old pasta boxes. No waste that way, and a great inheritance for my kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you stored the pasta boxes at the bank, then, through the magic of compounding interest, you could have double the number of boxes 10 years from now!

[–] egrets 7 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, it's difficult to reuse or recycle pasta boxes when their composition includes 50% or higher of fictional materials.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the only correct brain worms take, why is it being down voted?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

because the average person would accumulate hundreds of pasta boxes over the course of their life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Has stuff like that ever been a reason for ADHD brains to not engage in these thoughts?

[–] EtherWhack 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You seen Hoarders, right?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't but I'm aware of it. What I wasn't aware of is that here, in the comments under a comic making fun of the irrational bullshit adhd brains like to spend their time with, we take everything dead serious and do NOT make fun of the irrational bullshit our brains like to spend their time with. Such as when they start coming up with nonsense that a stupid box might yet be useful for while idling and waiting for the noodles to be done. I apologise for my oversight.

[–] EtherWhack 1 points 2 months ago

No worries as long as the intent wasn't to be mean. The thought patterns of what goes on in a person with ADHD, ASD, BPD, ect.. can be really hard to follow, even for us.

A lot of the memes here are what we go through every day. They're just tempered with a bit of cynical humor. It also tends to be an avenue for us to vent about the highlighted issues, of which most neurotypical brains don't usually have trouble with.

I guess the best way I can think of to describe the idea the comic is parodying on is that we (people with ADHD) go around life with a microscope stuck to our eyes. In that we can focus extremely painstakingly well on one subject, but as soon as we shift focus or get distracted, we tend to lose our place, sorta like flicking a slide with your finger at 1000x mag and losing that one bacterial cell.

After years of dealing with this, we tend to subconsciously build very detailed models of how things work or how someone achieved an end-result. This skill gives the appearance that we are gifted at something we just picked up when, in fact, we are just using a model we already built and adapting it to the new thing.

For the comic, we tend to not absorb a cooking time very well unless we know why it's at that specific interval -and- what is going on (at a granular level) before it's reached, along with what will happen after.

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