eli5 – Can someone explain ADHD? Specifically the procrastination and inability to do “boring” tasks?
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Recently diagnosed with ADHD at 60 and I apparently have developed a lot of coping strategies that mask the symptoms. I can’t focus on a boring task so I do several things at once. I’m worried that I’ll leave important tasks unfinished so I make a list of steps and tick them off as I go. I get anxious about procrastinating too much so I do everything straight away and then feel smug that I finished before everyone else. I always struggled to get to sleep because my brain is zooming so rather than trying to calm my brain I make a real effort to focus on one thing – currently I’m writing a novel – it must be really boring because I fall asleep at the start of chapter one…every night. I see it as my super power and it does let me have intense focus when I am enjoying a task, to such a degree that I have to be reminded to eat. I used to self medicate with alcohol but that is a crap way to live and cannabis is very bad, it makes me think of every possible thing in the world all at the same time – definitely not chilling out.
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