#executive dysfunction problems

[eight-littlenightmares]

GUYS. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

WRITE. just START WRITING. it’s gonna be super painful for the first few hundred words or so, and your concentration is gonna be super fragile, but after that it should get easier and you should get into the flow of it!!

obviously i can’t say for certain that this’ll work for everybody, but please try it. go sit down, set a goal, and WRITE. for me rn my goal is at least 500 words, but you could edit that number to be higher or lower, or just go on time writing instead.

the more you write, the easier it should get. as an autistic person, i suffer from executive dysfunction, and it is sooo hard to get writing done. you kinda just have to brute force it at first and then it should get easier.

let me know if this was in any way helpful!!

[major-fukkup]

PLEASE I JUST WANNA DRAW

[kindlyteach]

Executive Dysfunction

Starting a task for me is not like a staircase to a goal, but with the goal behind a brick wall.

All I can see from where I am is the fact there's a wall there and I need to somehow remove it to complete the task. So I go through any or all of these problems in how to begin to dismantle this wall:

• I don't know how thick this wall is. Is it 1, 2, 3 or more bricks thick? That would take a really long time to get through. So I won't start it now because I don't know how long it will take me and I could get too deep in and unable to finish.

• I don't know how to remove one brick, so I won't do it now, because the amount of energy I put into removing one brick might be all I can manage, and I can't just take one brick away and leave it, what if the wall then crashes on me and I can't get out? I then won't be able to remove any bricks!

• I don't think I have the equipment to remove these bricks, what if its a mix of materials and I need a drill? I'll come back when I have everything I might possibly need, then I can do it all in one go! But by then I've taken too long gathering materials and information that the wall just gets bigger or more difficult to remove.

• Sometimes I manage to remove a brick by being super strong and being in perfect time and mental conditions to do it. And that's great! I removed loads of bricks now! Everyone saw I could remove these bricks and assume I'm able to remove the rest. But I can't rely on my super strength because just like adrenaline I never get to control when it happens. So now I'm surrounded by the bricks I managed to remove and feel stupid about not being able to remove all the others just like I did last time.

And then when I finally somehow manage to remove all the bricks, I'm so exhausted and lie down on the ground, but in front of me a little further ahead, I can see another brick wall, yet everyone around me looks at me lying down at the goal and doesn't see any wall at all, because I just got rid of it and says "Why are you lying on the floor? It's not that hard! Don't be so lazy, get up and do the next task!"

[firjii]

Reminder that sometimes it’s not useful to rank yourself based on whether or not you tackled a “big” or “small” task.

Did you finish something that needed to get done? Go you.

Don’t cheapen that just because it might be something small in the grand scheme of the universe. You got your shit together long enough to do something and that’s what matters in practice.

Period. Full. Stop.

[studying-anna-blog]

High functioning executive dysfunction feels

Me: I know I need to clean my room to declutter my mental state.

Also me: Until my room is clean, my mental state hardly allows me to do any metaphoric or literal decluttering.

[eight-littlenightmares]

executive dysfunction is when your toothbrush has literal mildew/mold (sorry idk which term 😭) on the handle and you have cups of rotting coffee on your nightstand, one of which has worms in it, and these things would be so easy to take care of except for the fact that you just haven’t. and you had a bunch of fun things planned to do this month but somehow haven’t gotten around to any of them. and there’s this one diary entry that you’ve been meaning to make since March. (it’s August now)

[blue-eyed-rebel]

If anyone knows how to trick my executive dysfunction into not existing thatd be great.

[bastardswxrd]

executive dysfunction is being nauseatingly hungry... but unable to get up and go in the kitchen and make an easily microwavable meal so u can eat