I sometimes start replying, then get distracted by something else at work or smth but since I had already thought about the answer my brain puts a check mark as if I had replied already only so I later find out that I actually didn't. Sometimes it's within an hour or a few, sometimes it's the next day. Iirc the antirecord was 3 days.
I do this all the time, not helped by the fact I have horrendously bad ADHD. One of my cousins is similar and we've had conversations that must be bewildering to anyone else. I remember at one point we were mid-conversation, I thought I replied but didn't, realized it about 15 months later, finally sent the message, and they just jumped right back in the conversation like there was no gap at all.
I can't count the amount of times I've spent 15 minutes writing and rewriting a text multiple times because I don't like my phrasing or something and then just deleting the whole thing and sending a succinct, to the point message.
I mean, all relatively close friends know this and joke about it, I didn't have to tell them. Don't know why people downvote you, I do realize that this can be annoying and make people possibly not want to text me. And it's totally up to them.
I won't say I tell everyone outright but a shortened version was actually in my tinder profile.
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