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@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours 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)

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Could also just be shit memory.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

ADHD affects working memory a lot so that checks out.

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You can learn to feel the hardness of the noodles through the spoon you use to stir them with, that's what I do. I can tell if noodles are done just by stirring them in the boiling water. Take a few out to eat to check them and you're done. Ezpz, no instructions needed.

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

No? You check the noodles while they're still cooking and drain the water after. Do you cook dried noodles without water?

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Some noodles are meant to be eaten in a broth, other not.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

( . _ ) .

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Obligatory comment for all of them.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

Agreed, that is my favourite feature of these

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Happened to me more than once...

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Take a photo of the instructions.

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

[+] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -12 points 1 day 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@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You seen Hoarders, right?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org -1 points 23 hours 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@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours 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.