What happens when life circumstances make these morning routines difficult or impossible to perform occasionally?
The real issue is skipping several days in a row. If I drop my routines for a weeklong vacation it takes more than a month to build them back.
One thing I've discovered for myself is that the routine doesn't decay as quickly if I at least maintain a placeholder. For example, even if I don't have time to do an exercise routine I can usually do five pushups. Even if I can't meditate for ten minutes, I can still sit and breathe for a minute. Even if I can't do all the dishes before bed, I can scrape them off. That makes it much easier to resume the routine. It doesn't deepen the rut but it does prevent it from being washed away.
I generally can adapt to long term new situations by inventing new routines but I fall apart without structure.
I’ll be the first to acknowledge it’s a bad thing but it is what it is. I’m sure the commenter above is similar
Is that better?
Of course that's utterly insane. If you have ADHD then you should be putting more effort into routinization, not less and certainly not making up reasons that you can't even try.
Charitably, I read it as 'Telling someone to get good at the thing they are struggling with doesn't work'. This is similar to the oft seen adages of 'just do things to make you happy to fix your depression' met with sarcastic 'gee thanks, I'm cured' responses.
Certain habits, skills, etc, might be more important for some people to focus on than others to manage debilitating effects, but that importance comes with the consequence of those same feats being harder.
“You adapt to it — don’t let fear of inevitable challenges prevent you from starting”
“No thanks I have ADHD”
Okay, what other possible answer is there? There’s no way to guarantee your habits don’t get jostled and there’s no method to correct it than adapting. Any specific adaptation method is also notably harder for ADHD folks too. Yes, it is harder, that’s why in order to succeed at this thing one needs to work harder. Any Quick Tip that’d make this easier for an ADHD person would make it easier for everyone else too, ergo it’d be the default advice, and it’d still be harder for an ADHD person to apply.
I think it's fair to say "you adapt" is ~useless advice for everyone, FWIW.
Despite the insistence of many in our parents' generations, ADHD is not a disorder of not applying oneself hard enough.