eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?
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I’ll give my experience, it feels less like I’m procrastinating, and more like I keep “falling asleep”, like how you don’t realize you’re falling asleep on the couch until you jerk your head up suddenly.
I’ll be trying to watch a training video and realize that I’ve picked a random object up off my desk and have been studying an obscure feature of it for 10 minutes.
The explanation I’ve heard is that ADHD is actually a lack of “brain energy” and so your though process has a brownout and restarts, but it doesn’t restart on the same task because that pointer is lost in the restart. Instead your brain picks up the first thought it has and runs with it, until you either realize you’re off task or it happens again.
Hyperfocusing is like enabling a “gaming mode” on a computer to boost your performance (or in this case to be able to continuously run on low power without the brownout) and so your brain stops doing a lot of functions, like making you aware of the fact that you’ve had to pee really bad for almost an hour. There is no in-between for my brain. I am either hyperfocused, or my brain is spiraling through thoughts so rapidly that if you ask me what I’m thinking about I’ll have no idea how to answer.
That’s what it’s like for me anyway.
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