Eli5 What is executive disfunction?
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I have ADHD and executive dysfunction, this is how it feels for me:
Imagine you’re two people in a car, the person in the driver’s seat and the person in the passenger’s seat. Both of these are you.
You in the passenger’s seat keeps track of the map (keeping track of what to do), and you in the driver’s seat is in charge of turning the car and all that (actually doing the things).
If both of them are acting maturely and focused, then there is no issue. The problem is that the one in the driver’s seat breaks down under high amounts of stress, and the one in the passenger’s seat is easily distracted.
If you’re watching a show, or see a butterfly, or anything more interesting than staring at the road ahead and analyzing the map, then the driver will just follow those things and be none the wiser. Or, if you’re feeling like you need to do something, but it takes you over a rickety bridge, and the driver gets stressed, they’ll shut down in the middle of a bridge.
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