eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?

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eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?

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ADHD means you’re chronically low on feel-good chemicals. You seek out things that give you the feel good chemicals. If you know a task won’t give you those feel good chemicals, then you really, *really* don’t want to do them. It can feel physically impossible to do it. You know you NEED to do it, but you’re pinned in place mindlessly scrolling through reddit or Facebook or tiktok because it’s giving you tiny little hits of dopamine.

To outsiders, it looks like procrastination or laziness. We want to do the thing, too, but we don’t get the “yay I did it!” dopamine hit that a normal person does when they complete a task. So it makes it very, very hard.