Look at the flat surfaces in your home. The kitchen island, the dining room table, the corner of your desk, the chair in your bedroom. They are almost certainly covered in precarious towers of mixed items: an unopened piece of mail, a clean sock, a half-empty water bottle, a screwdriver, and a receipt from three weeks ago.
Welcome to the "Doom Pile." Neurotypical people look at these piles and see blatant laziness. They think, "Why don't you just put those away?" What they don't understand is that for you, putting those items away is terrifying. Your brain runs on a strict "out of sight, out of mind" operating system. You keep the mail on the counter because if you put it in a filing cabinet, you will never pay the bill. You keep the screwdriver on the desk because if you put it in the garage, you will forget to fix the hinge.
In a desperate attempt to not forget your responsibilities, you leave them out in the open. But this creates a new, worse problem. Visual clutter acts like a constant, low-level alarm bell for the ADHD nervous system. Every time your eyes sweep across the room, the Doom Piles scream demands at you. The sensory overload eventually triggers an amygdala freeze response. You become so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of visual "tasks" that you become completely paralyzed, unable to put away a single item.
Traditional organizing advice—"buy more drawers" or "put things where they belong"—is actively dangerous for an ADHD brain. It demands you hide your life. To actually function, you must stop trying to hide things and start organizing them vertically and transparently.