Eli5 What is executive disfunction?

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Eli5 What is executive disfunction?

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There’s a video I saw that I found helpful as a neurotypical person. Unfortunately I don’t have a link.
Anyway. Go turn a burner on in your stove. See that it’s hot. And try put your hand on it. (Don’t… Don’t actually do this. It’s a thought experiment). You know that if you put your hand on it you’ll get burned, so you just can’t make your body put your hand down.

That’s executive dysfunction. You want to tell yourself to do something but you just can’t make yourself do it.