That only really happens if there is no immediate threat of doom. If there is, I am the most productive person on the face of the Earth but only due to the sheer terror that results from last second procrastination.
Yeah… homework was done 5 minutes before class starts…
“I can do it on the bus!”.
Reader, he could not…
it’s called executive dysfunction
Which should be the name instead of ADHD.
To be blunt, the stigma of typicals around adult ADHD is so severe that for most people I just tell them I have an executive function disorder.
It usually confuses them into learning what the issue actually is rather than their perception of what ADHD is.
Look, I’m bad at life because my brain does things wrong, okay?
Hey! I do that too! Instead of saying I have trouble committing names/dates/verbal info, I just tell folks I have a short term memory disorder. Which is true! I need to mess up someone’s name or an important piece of info like 5 times until I cement it in, with guilt and embarrassment.
Then I power through what should have been my whole day of work in 2h30 before going to bed. Then I go try to sleep very late on an adrenaline high, wondering why I tend to burnout, cause I’m so great at this.
Anyway, the medication seemed to have calmed me down a bit on this.
I made a meme of this exact phenomenon before my original instance went belly up, can’t get it to upload but the text was:
"People say being ADHD doesn’t come with superpowers
But can a neurotypical feel the exhaustion of a task without ever getting up to do it?"
Hey wait… My brain does have hands!
Likewise but they always seem to get distracted so easily doing mindane things
Maybe if my brain has 2 more hands…
I always thought it would be interesting if we had 4 hands instead of just 2… and I always felt like I’m missing a hand or two (I use my mouth and legs a lot to hold on to things, lol 😂).
The amount of times I use any extremity as an additional hand is so often it’s silly
Basically as long as I have an anchor point I can and have used everything else: mouth, feet, legs, crooks of my arms, etc
I’ve been told it can be strange watching me move about when I’ve got things I’m doing but I ain’t gonna stop
I used to chroncially be like this, it was awful. Somehow, somewhere, without outside help I flipped, and now Im organized, efficient and proactive. Marking this spot so I can think about it and come back when I think I know what changed.
You have to tell us, you know that right? I am waiting for this moment for 4 decades.
