eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?
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I have ADD. I am learning web development. I sit down to study, pull up some relevant documentation, fire up the ol editor and a terminal. Skim over the docs while simultanously thinking of dinner, what an ex-something might have said once, oh wait let’s search for some music to play in the background, oh look so-and-so uploaded a new video, no wait, I have to study. Skim over the documentation again because obviously I didn’t retain one bit of info, while thinking that my dog should somehow socialise more cause he’s kinda aggressive. Feel like shit because I’m wasting time going nowhere, when will I ever learn. Force myself to focus, get increasingly agitated and impatient for an hour trying to understand abstractions. Screw it, I gotta do the dishes that have been festering forgotten in the sink. Might get a snack beforehand though, so while I’m snackin let’s watch that new upload. Watch that shit with religious focus for half an hour. Remember that I’m supposed to finish writing some code, but I haven’t really started yet, it’s already late afternoon, might as well jump in a game with my mates and start fresh tomorrow. Repeat the entire thing the next day, ad infinitum.
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