eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?
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Throwing mine into the ring:
Having ADHD is like forever being few versions behind the current computer model. There’s nothing that can change about this. We can improve it, but it’s never going to reliably perform as well and it’s never gonna have as much memory.
Sometimes, I can do something immediately. Other times, a simple task can take a bit for for my brain to load. I can tell myself to do the dishes and my brain goes through this process of trying to figure out how to get my body to move.
This is usually where people mistake ADHD ppl for “being lazy” but they’re having that circling thing you see on computers happen.
Sometimes, it eventually succeeds and I will go through with getting the mail/wash dishes
Other times, the brain freezes up and you gotta reboot the entire computer-brain and try again – but you might forget what you were doing entirely by the time it finishes rebooting.
That’s ADHD, but you got no control over what your brain freezes up (or not) over.
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