eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?
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Have you ever played Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time? Imagine trying to play through that game without the Z-targeting system. That’s kinda what ADHD can feel like sometimes, you know something is important and you need to focus on it, but whatever mechanism your brain is supposed to have that keeps you locked onto it just isn’t working. You can still handle it, but it takes a lot more “intentional aiming” is the best way I can think to put it.
On the flip side, there’s hyper focusing, where the Z-targeting locks onto something and you can’t break focus from it. Sometimes it’s fine, it’s something you needed to focus on anyways, other times it’s some random thing like a spot on the wall with a weird shadow.
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