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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Look up executive function disorder. The procrastination and inability to do boring tasks is not necessarily adhd.

The basic theory is that people with executive function disorder have synapses with bigger gaps than neurotypical people have. Those larger gaps require a bigger charge to fire off the impulse to act.

It takes either the excitement of having a task that people enjoy to generate those larger charges. Or the stress and anxiety of being up against a deadline, in the case of procrastination.