Eli5 What is executive disfunction?
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You’ve been playing in your room for a while, but now it’s time to go to school. You know that you need to clean up your room. You even think to yourself, “I should clean up my room.” But the very thought of doing it seems to make you tired and unable to complete the job. You think about it a long time. You feel guilty about not getting up and just doing it. You start to feel anxious about it. Now it’s time to go to school and you don’t have time any more.
When you get home the anxiety and guilt has made the problem seem much, much bigger than it actually is, which means you feel like you did before you left, but worse. Your room stays unclean.
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