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Are you no longer able to find your way into your bedroom due to piles of laundry covering the floor? Be careful, this sign may reflect an attention disorder.
Like every start of the day, you look everywhere for your second sock. The one with prints, the one that should have waited quietly for its turn in your basket. Except it’s not there, just like your favorite pants and your polka dot scarf. A coincidence ? Not really. The way we (dis)arrange clothes can reveal certain aspects of our personality.
Floordrobe, a sign of ADHD?
When laundry accumulates to the point of forming “mountains” in the bedroom, we speak of “floordrobe“. In other words, “wardrobe on the floor”. However, this habit, if it is frequent – and often considered harmless – can be the reflection of a specific disorder.
In a video broadcast on his TikTok account, Jeff Rice, coach, explains how the way we put away our clothes can be linked to attention deficit disorder.
“It seems that many people with ADHD struggle with their laundry.”, he reveals. “Clean laundry and ‘not quite dirty laundry that I’ll probably wear again’ tend to pile up and create clutter.”
Indeed, some people with ADHD may have difficulty maintaining “order” in various aspects of their lives, including putting away clothes.
“Hyperactive adults tirelessly move from one action to another without completing them most of the time, which prevents them from achieving goals that are too numerous or incompatible with their disorder. Dr. Jérôme Palazzolo told us in a previous article.
A t-shirt can thus begin to be folded, then be left on a chair. The same goes for last week’s laundry pile. Result: clothes pile up.
Nonetheless, “floordrobe” alone cannot be considered a diagnostic sign of ADHD, as many people without this disorder may also have similar tidying habits.
Being messy, a reflection of our identity?
Another explanatory avenue: the ambient disorder in our room could have a connection with our “appearance” and our “sense of identity”, reports the Psychologies magazine.
“For some, clothes represent an identity they are not ready to let go of – the person they once were, or perhaps the person they wanted to become but never quite achieved.says Helen Sanderson, psychologist and professional organizer, Women’s Health.
In other words, by leaving certain clothes on the floor, this mess could be a reflection of a version of ourselves that no longer exists or that never existed.
Ready to sort?