Laundry piled up on the floor? Clean and wash clothes on the bed all day and move to the chair? Is the t-shirt still hanging by the hanger?
If that’s you and this routine sounds familiar to you, you might have something called “floordrobe”, which means, it’s not the laziness that keeps you procrastinating the work, but ADHD.
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In a TikTok video, ADHD coach Jeff Rice ciphers the term “floordrobe”.
He says, “A ‘floordrobe’ is a place, typically on the floor, where we leave either clean or ‘not quite dirty’ clothes,” “It can be in a laundry basket that just sits there for days and days or weeks, or it can be in a pile of clothes that you’ve worn for a little while, but they didn’t quite get dirty. And you think you would wear them again, leaving them sitting on the floor or hanging over a chair or whatever.”
What is the conjunction between floordrobe and ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder, which affects millions of people and causes problems dealing with concentration, attention, and focusing. According to studies and surveys, the ratio states that ADHD in children is of higher prevalence than in adults.
ADHD Counseling in Columbus, Ohio explains that the ADHD brain repulses when encountered with a task that is boring and starts to find other tasks that might provide an adrenaline effect on the brain.
The humdrum chores don’t provide the person with a rush in their sense thus delaying the task, which later leads them to panic over the undone work.
Rachel Bloom also states that people with ADHD have few beta brainwaves.
Individuals with ADHD, thus find the task of laundry rather very difficult because it also involves short-term memory.
Coach Rice also states something called “time blindness”, another trouble faced by people with ADHD.
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Time Blindness is the inability to sense the time passing, which makes every step of a decision to be hard to focus on. It is a common symptom seen in individuals with ADHD.
For that reason, laundry tasks might feel like turning into something of a big chore.
How can one manage with their floordrobe?
ADHD experts explain various ways in which individuals with ADHD can carry on doing their laundry without much distraction.
Coach Rice advises setting a timer for the task as people with ADHD often get manipulated by the quantity of work, as a result of their lack of time awareness.
Keeping a timer will keep them focused even for a short period providing consistency to their work without breaking the continuity.
Therapist Rachel Bloom also suggests doing tasks in smaller portions, making slight changes in the pattern of their work to explore which one might suit them better.
Dividing one’s wardrobe into smaller portions might help one who wants to deal with a smaller amount of clothes to do laundry with. This might create a peaceful surrounding to complete the task ahead.
ADHD expert Roberts suggests ADHD hacks that will increase accountability. For instance, have someone be with you while doing the chore, so that they may act like a reminder for you.
Or reward yourself after completing the task thus encouraging yourself to do more.
Whatever the situation is, it is important to stay kind to yourself and never force yourself to change. And it is not compulsory to change one’s habits. It is also to be noted that changing one’s habits will eventually take time.
So ask yourself whether this current habit is hurting anyone. If it doesn’t bother anyone, feel free to move on and live without worries.
