After reading the comments here, I'm happy to have found my home of fellow neurodivergents.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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OP could have simply typed those few words an post them as actual text, and saved the world megawatts of power?
Did you ever think of cutting down this large image to its actual content, or, even better, just reproduce the text as actual text?
Here I fixed it
Exactly seven times, every time, or else I might get a disease or become mortally injured in a freak accident.
I need to feel my hand has closed it so when I shut doors, I try reopening them twice
Nah, bro. That one's just you, actually. 😬
If you have difficulty remembering if you did a daily task, like locking the door, you are supposed to do something novel when you lock it, to be sure. So maybe today you spin around in a circle when you lock it, maybe tomorrow you tap your forehead four times, the next day you whistle a tune, and so on.
You can repeat novel cues over time, the trick is just doing a different thing every day so the action itself stands out as a reminder that you did the important task.
I usually just sing a little song. "I locked the door, I locked the door. HALLELUYAH!" A different song each time, so it's kinda like your approach.
No, but I also crop images to avoid wasted black space.
I don't go back to close it. I know it's closed. I go back for the peace of mind.
The amount of times I've driven around the block to see if i closed the garage is way higher than the number of times that I've actually forgotten to. Which is zero.
I lock my door with a fob in this building, but it auto-locks half the time anyway. I can't operate the elevator to the parking garage or the roof without that fob: I can go to the lobby, but that's it. If I'm locked out, all failure modes point to a fire escape stairway and a crashbar to the outside.
I'm FAR more at risk of locking myself out than leave anything unlocked, and I can phone my wife to code-6 the front door like I'm a sexy pizza delivery.
9/10 times
This is one thing that smartlocks are incredibly good for.
Did I lock my door? Let me check my phone. Looks like it's locked. Yay.
Looks like it's unlocked. Better lock it. Click. It's locked now. Yay.
Twice a day because I don't know if the memory is from just now or all of the times I did it prior.
I consider this to be a self esteem issue. I made the decision to start "gambling" on myself, and bet that I did. There are extenuating circumstance, of course. But in general I've deemed it more important to believe in myself than to make extra super certain that I did what I already know I did.
That's a good outlook. I stir in some extra awareness of and intention in these moments to help.
I do this with the hand break in my car 11/10 times