[modernpendu]

[secret-mind]

[music-keeps-me-sane]

[there-will-be-violence-deactiva]

[floatinginthecosmo]

[enjoythemurder]

[monachopsis-people]

[emilydb]

[w-h-i-t-e-o-l-e-a-n-d-e-r-deact]

[abcsofadhd]

ADHD culture is not being able to do anything for the whole day cause you have plans in the evening.

[abcsofadhd]

Intrusive thoughts are awful. They make you feel like a psychopath or a pervert due to thoughts that are not under your control.

Learning to dismiss them is vital. With ADHD’s overthinking (read: obsessive) behaviour, learning to not dwell on it is VITAL.

[heliflower]

me: *is chilling outside watching at the stars*

my neurodivergent brain: break your dog’s legs

me: what

brain: what

[abcsofadhd]

No brain, I will not grab that elderly gentleman’s ass, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT?!

[thebrokenparts]

ADHD for the LAST FUCKING TIME, we are NOT going to STAB our roommate with the cooking knife!!!!! wh- BECAUSE SHES ONE OF LIKE THREE FRIENDS WE HAVE WHAT THE FUCK

[serenityharkness]

Brain we KNOW what would happen if we opened the door while the car is in motion we do NOT need to experience for ourselves.

[flyingmirror]

No, we do not need to slice open our own skin. Why would you even want that?

I have at some point decided that that is just our brains vomiting up random ideas, the way they will sometimes vomit up sentences that make so bloody sense.

[0deerling0-inactive]

If you’re one of those people who thinks executive dysfunction only happens for things we don’t like (school, cleaning,) then please consider the fact that I’ve been meaning to plug my phone in for 20 minutes and I’m now at 2% and still putting it off to write this post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[hawkeyedflame]

My anime/video game list consists of over 100 titles, easily, and yet I almost never get around to watching/playing any of them.

Executive dysfunction is not just for boring or unenjoyable things. It’s for everything. Even eating.

[biphobicerasurer]

What is executive dysfunction? O.o

[hawkeyedflame]

Put simply, it’s difficulty/inability with initiating tasks. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive functions, like decision-making and impulse control. People with ADHD and other neurological disorders that affect the prefrontal cortex often experience difficulty making decisions and performing tasks, as well as exercising self restraint. Part of why people with ADHD tend to procrastinate so badly is out of genuine inability to begin tasks, even if they’re very important.

It feels, for me at least, like I’m constantly waiting for something and I can’t start X task because I’m waiting. I never know what exactly I’m waiting for, but that doesn’t stop me from wasting hours and days not doing the things I need to do, even if I have a desire to do them.

[ewanmrozny]

It feels, for me at least, like I’m constantly waiting for something and I can’t start X task because I’m waiting. I never know what exactly I’m waiting for, but that doesn’t stop me from wasting hours and days not doing the things I need to do, even if I have a desire to do them.

Oh thank god, someone put it into words.

For me it’s also waiting for the “right” time to come to complete the task because for some reason my brain thinks doing the task at any other time is horribly, horribly wrong, weird, and out of order. The “right” time might come eventually, might not. It’s a lottery.

[lady-feral]

Yeah.  This.

[silvermoonphantom]

Y’all make it sound so deep but tbh to me it feels like tapping on the ‘Do the dishes’ button but a screen pops up saying ‘you must be lvl 27 to do this activity’ and I’m like ‘well shit I’m only lvl 26 so I guess I’ll just dick around until my exp goes up 

And then next time I tap ‘do the dishes’ it demands I’m lvl 28 and by that time it’s getting a bit moldy and I’m just staring furiously at this pile of dishes, slapping the ‘Do the Dishes’ button to no avail. The stars aren’t in position. 

The stars are never in position.

[cumaeansibyl]

sometimes there’s a Just Fucking Do It special move available but it depletes your entire power bar and the recharge speed is completely unpredictable

[spite-cadet]

I click Do Thing and it loads to 78% and then stays that way for 3 days

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

For me it’s like a notification pops up saying “The dishes need doing. You have 4 seconds to comply. If you do not comply within the allotted time, “Do Dishes” feature will become unavailable for 3 weeks.” And if I don’t get up literally that instant and force myself to do the task, and wait even like 3-5 minutes, it becomes like when u open an un-dismissible window and accidentally click outside the box and your computer makes that chime noise to let you know that the option to click outside the box (do the dishes) doesn’t exist. And then I’m just laying there like “ding…ding……ding….” until 3 weeks has passed and I’m given another 4 seconds to seize the opportunity to do the dishes.

[hey-look-a-squirrel]

That last one is 100% yes. 

[actualaster]

All of these.

And there are methods for working around it, but my brain keeps patching the loopholes I use to exploit it and get stuff done so I have to keep finding new ones

[xsuicunex2]

My body lags.

[seerofheros]

There’s a name for it?

[kylorenshighwaistedpants]

ADHD lags are weird. This is all so accurate

[masterofthenightscape]

I should probably get tested for this.

[ironwoman359]

I used to wonder if I had some form of this, but was all “I can’t, I don’t have any neurological disorders, I must just be lazy.”

Me over 6 months later seriously considering the possibility that I’m ADHD: “Oh.”

[randomslasher]

Does anyone else ever get motivation to Do The Thing in like…waves? Like the other day I wanted to go to the gym and like. I was sitting there on the computer and I had a wave of “We’re gonna DO this!” so I got up and put my gym clothes on. But then I sat back down because the wave had faded and I didn’t want to go to the gym anymore. But I waited about 20 minutes and I got another wave, so I put on my shoes. But then it faded again and I sat there. Then a wave hit and I put my gym towel in the dryer and packed my bag. Then a fade again. 

My partner was like, “Are you going to the gym today?” and I was like, “Honestly, your guess is as good as mine.” 

[sanderssidesvp]

This is why I have so many books that I want to read but never have the energy or willpower to read. Sometimes I’ll want to sketch so I’ll get out all the materials but then I’ll stare at the blank sketchbook for ten minutes before deciding that I don’t don’t to sketch anymore or that I can’t for some reason. Then I’ll put all the materials away and fuck around on YouTube.

[not-here-anymore1-deactivated20]

I wish I could show my entire family this post so they would understand that I’m not hecking lazy, I just genuinely can’t do things sometimes

[nonegenderleftgalaxy]

THIS

I really need to study for this test but I’ve had all weekend and I just haven’t and right now my textbook is literally three feet away and I’m like nah imma watch a tv show except I’m procrastinating watching the tv show as well and I’m like nah and I also wanna read this book but I’m like nah so I just sit here doing nothing

[what-even-is-thiss]

My executive dysfunction feels like I want to do something and then this robot in my head goes “No” and just hits a button that doesn’t let me do anything productive so then it’s like I’m trapped in my own body until suddenly I look at the task and and that anime narrowing of the screen thing happens and I have to defeat it right now this instant or else I will be trapped again.

[mentalityisanillusion]

How to human?

Some days its really hard to human. You go through day trying to focus and socialize and all that!

but its so exhausting!

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