Tolerations & ADHD Part 2: Making Your Smite List

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In my previous article we talked about making a list of the tolerations in your life.

Tolerance, Tolerations, and ADHD Sensitivity

If you’re like me, the list might have started out quite specific:

• the loose wheel on an office chair
• the tangled mess of cables next to my desk that has to be detangled every time I pack my laptop to go work at the coffee shop
• the wobbling of the end table next to my couch that spills my coffee when I bump it
• that spreadsheet kept on the SharePoint drive at work that I need about three or four times a week but consistently forget to pin so I have to do a search for it every time.

All of these do fit within my specific definition:

Toleration (noun) any experience that is annoying or requires effort to overcome, which you have the ability to fix but keep procrastinating because it never seems to be a high enough priority.

But as your list gets bigger, you might notice some other things creeping in: