As if I didn't already have reason to fire her

[azurelunatic]

Habitable. Habitual. Very different words.

I have Chronic Messy Desk, due in large part to the ADHD. Ex therapist and I set me homework from the first session, to get the desk a little more under control. To make inhabiting it a little nicer.

The other day on Twitter, I saw someone saying that deliberate habit formation doesn't work in ADHDers like it does in neurotypicals. It certainly doesn't for me.

If you're thinking that I discovered that ex-therapist wrote "make clean desk habitual" in the notes for my treatment plan, you win some internet points.

I was okay with her having a hard time pronouncing words. But words still mean things.

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[sine_nomine]

This, oddly, makes me want to call up my former OT - who insisted on calling lipedema lipidemia. And I never bothered correcting her because I knew what she meant. Except that lipidemia is about the presence of lipids in the blood (e.g., hyperlipidemia is high cholesterol) and lipedema is an auto-immune disease. Yes, words matter. I'm glad she's your ex-therapist, and I'd love to hear more about the differences in deliberate habit formation.

[silveradept]

That does not necessarily sound accidental, even if it is accidental.

[krait]

I feel you on the Chronic Messy Desk. My catchphrase for this with a coworker has become "I have a visual memory" after a conversation we had about losing and finding things. :D

"Make clean desk habitual" does seem like an ordinary sort of note to me - if "habitable" had been meant, the "clean" then seems extraneous. Make desk habitable and Make clean desk habitual are both legitimate goals, though definitely not the same goal! Make clean desk habitable, not so much. Regardless, it sounds like you are best off having her as an ex-therapist, if she isn't up on ADHD research and can't get a sentence out correctly!

[azurelunatic]

The goal that I'd agreed to was absolutely "habitable", I'd pointed out that Clean was Not Going To Happen.

[vass]

So both "clean" and "habitual" were her editorial input.

Yeah, a therapist who changes your goals on you is sackable, and a therapist who changes your goals to something you explicitly said wasn't doable is EXTRA sackable.

[azurelunatic]

See new reply below.

But her notes on our last conversation were also special.

[azurelunatic]

I looked back at the notes on desktop, and while clean wasn't in there, "habitual" was there, in quotes. It did not make sense in the context of the sentence.