large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

I don’t disagree with the logic here, although I would say it does not apply universally, I mostly feel the need to question the example of comparing leaving your phone to leaving a child, which I think makes light of how seriously impaired someone must be to make such a mistake and also how extreme the consequences are. I don’t think it’s helpful at all to say someone capable of one is capable of the other.

I’m not “built different”, I had unmedicated ADHD for most of these years, my memory is nothing special. I have lost cars, phones, essential documents, left taps running.

I don’t want to start a struggle session on this but I cannot get my head round a lot of this article or this point in particular

If you are capable of forgetting where you left your phone, you’re capable of leaving a child in a hot car.

I misplace my phone several times a day. I clearly remember the two times I lost track of where my daughter was when they were a toddler - both for 10 seconds as they walked around a corner while I was interacting with something. How I felt for those 10 seconds is indescribable.

There is zero comparison to be made between a phone and a child incapable of functioning or surviving by themselves for even a short period of time. Even at my lowest I couldn’t do any of the actions described in the article without being acutely aware of where they were because their wellbeing was more important than my own.