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gengario

whoops lost myself for about eight years there

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The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

urgentkettle

Articles written by neurotypicals will be like “ADHD children find the external motivation of the SAW traps is very effective. Here’s how to build SAW traps to maximize their productivity.”

fandomsandfeminism

This is why uneducated ADHDers are so prone to anxiety disorders.

Your brain learns that it can not rely on dopamine to power it for essential tasks. So it turns to cortisol.

Trigger a fight or flight response every time you need to make a phone call or go to the pharmacy, because the dopamine may or may not come, but cortisol is reliable. Cortisol makes sure that shit gets done, even if it wrecks your health in the process.

tubapun

I try to microwave Mickey Mouse to make a statement on corporate greed but I accidentally grabbed the Kingdom Hearts version of him out of my unethically small Cage of Mickeys and now he's flipping around dodging the beams like Yoda fucked an ant