Impulse control: judge for yourself—I'm just out of the shower, wrapped in a towel, blogging this because I know I'll forget to if I don't do it right away. Hyperfocus: so wrapped up in my compelling thoughts while in the shower that I started washing my left armpit with hair conditioner ... however caught it before proceeding counterclockwise to the next logical place, though lord knows hair conditioner would have been more appropriate there. I took a 'stims holiday' yesterday to try to give myself a chance to notice a difference from day to day—but I can't say I do, really. Yesterday I had a strong impulse to have a cup of coffee at lunch, which I normally wouldn't—that could be a self-medicating kind of behavior; who knows? But mostly I was surprised at how not-different I felt than I had the previous four days, and I don't think the meds have much of a half-life.
On the other hand, my hyperfocus isn't so bad that I'm not realizing pretty quickly that I ought to go finish my toilette before I'm committed to Bad Hair until my next shower ... and who knows when that will be? Not me!
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