Explain please. How are costumes stressful for ADHD people?
For me and my wife it’s a topic we bring up constantly throughout the year. Keep making suggestions and refining the ideas. Then October comes and of course he haven’t written anything down so we completely forget all our ideas.
Then two weeks before Halloween we say “ok we’re need to get costumes. It’s close”. Then we’ll come up with a very elaborate idea that we both know won’t happen, but we agree anyways.
Then 2 days before Halloween we check Amazon/spirit Halloween and do our best surprised Pikachu face when all the good costumes are gone or need more than 1 day to deliver and we end up settling on something dumb and get angry.
Repeat next year for some reason.
This is my exact pattern with Renaissance Faires
I’m starting to think ADHD just means an inability to match expectations with reality.
Seriously, look into the time blindness trait, I’m fully specced into it and it’s going terribly.
I made sure to never go to any party invitation that anyone has ever told me to “dress up” and the theme is X. It’s overwhelming. It’s already annoying enough that people keep having this things every year.
This is plain stupid (I mean the original original original post)
Halloween costumes:
- Are not mandatory
- Making them if you want is a fun and creative task
- What could be stressful about them, realistically speaking?
Yes, I took the bait! Yes, It made me angry!
I just don’t wanna personally





