The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)
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@nyctophiliac YES. Trying to shop through Amazon this last year has been PAINFUL. Buying eight things just to send seven of them back because I can't stand the way they feel or the fit is 'wrong'. Clothes shopping was always a nightmare, but doubly so now that I can't just go to the store and touch everything to find out what's okay. The skinny jeans trend made me straight up cry because its one of my 'never wear this ever' things.
Sadly, most of my 'comfort zone' clothes actually fall into men's clothing, because they use common sense when making them.
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@cassite said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Part of me hopes pandemic fashion forces people to actually standardize sizing across brands.
And all of me knows this will never happen.
The shirt sizes in my closet range from "large" to "4X".
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I feel this - I wear anything from a woman's 'fitting' t-shirt in XL, to like XXXL - depending on the bust size. Men's? L - 2X. And don't even get me started on dresses and leggings, or my lounge pants.
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@cassite said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Part of me hopes pandemic fashion forces people to actually standardize sizing across brands.
Yeah. Even in men's pants sizes where it is supposedly by actual inches measured there can be a huge variation between brands. I remember seeing a story on it somewhere where they bought a few different brands of the same 36" waist and there was a 4-6" spread between them
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@wildbaboons I was briefly hopeful when my son got into the measurement-based sizes that I would actually be able to buy clothes more easily because STANDARDS!
Yeah. No.
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@wildbaboons My 17 year old has a 36" waist with a 32" inseam. I cannot tell you how many times he's ended up in a 34/30 or 38/32 or some variation thereof because apparently each brand gets to decide how long an 'inch' actually is. And lets not get into the shirt sizes which range from Medium to X-Large because apparently even men are now supposed to just be tiny twigs with no shoulders.
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@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
My 17 year old has a 36" waist with a 32" inseam. I cannot tell you how many times he's ended up in a 34/30 or 38/32 or some variation thereof because apparently each brand gets to decide how long an 'inch' actually is. And lets not get into the shirt sizes which range from Medium to X-Large because apparently even men are now supposed to just be tiny twigs with no shoulders.
Even within the brand, it's not standard.
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@ganymede This is true. Levi carpenter jeans can size differently from their normal 501s. Wrangler has weirdly been the most consistent.
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@ganymede said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
My 17 year old has a 36" waist with a 32" inseam. I cannot tell you how many times he's ended up in a 34/30 or 38/32 or some variation thereof because apparently each brand gets to decide how long an 'inch' actually is. And lets not get into the shirt sizes which range from Medium to X-Large because apparently even men are now supposed to just be tiny twigs with no shoulders.
Even within the brand, it's not standard.
My spouse has the habit of ripping the tags out of pants. Trying to figure out the size of some of his older pants in an effort to buy new ones, I measured the waistbands with measuring tape, and... they were wildly inconsistent. Even the ones that still had tags would have 4-6 extra inches in the larger sizes, and at least 2-4 extra inches in the smaller sizes.
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Holderness Family: ADHD - "Under The Sea" Parody
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-sigh- When you keep meaning to call the doctor about trying a different med for ADHD.
...and forget. Again.
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Me: This thing is important so I'm putting it RIGHT HERE where I WON'T FORGET IT.
Also me: You're going to forget where you put it.
Me: No I won't!
Also me: Okay, then where is it?
Me: Uhh... [frantic searching of the entire room, can't find it, give up, later find it in a completely different room]
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@wretched What the hell did I ever do to you?! Why you callin' me out like this, man! We're in public!
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@wretched All of these, so much. I'm struggling extra hard with 1, 2, 4, and 6 right now because I'm sick. So everything has been amplified, because even though I'm sick I feel like I should be doing more. Those dishes should have been washed two days ago. The floor needed vacuuming but standing up hurts right now. I'm sleeping when I know I should be doing laundry but I can't seem to do anything but sit at my PC until the pain drives me back to bed.
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@wretched So much this.
