5 Things Clearly Not Made for People with ADHD

Let’s face it: the world is still trying to catch up to the idea of ADHD. In all honesty, I’m not even sure that ADHD is actually a “disorder” at this point. With adult diagnoses rising at — holy sh** — four times that of children, there’s a very good chance that we’re going to just start admitting that half the population have brains that just work differently.

But, whatever you wanna call it, there are so many things we have to mess with daily that remind us just how little everyone gets us.

So here I am, about to complain in an article about a few things that I’m sure exist just to make me feel inferior. This is how I process. Let me have this.

Thing #1: Key fobs

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I am pretty sure that the person who invented these knew someone with ADHD who they hated with all of their might.

All I can find is that it was made by someone at Siemens for Mercedes-Benz in 1997, so I’m just going to imagine that it was some dude named Jimmy. Jimmy had probably had it with Kevin, his Mercedes-driving coworker, stealing his sandwich every day at lunch, and so he was like “Kevin loses everything that isn’t literally stapled to his hand; let’s see how he likes locking himself out of his car three times a month.”