What is executive dysfunction?
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If your brain were a smartphone, executive dysfunction is a bit like having a limited and unpredictable ability to switch between apps.
So, imagine you can usually open an app when you want, but after a little while your phone will forcibly switch you to some other app. And even if you notice and try to switch back, it switches you again, maybe to a new third app. You don’t know when it will switch you, and you don’t know how long it will take you to even notice that it switched you.
Then sometimes maybe it won’t let you switch apps at all. You’re stuck in one thing, spending way too much time on it, not switching to anything else.
And maybe other times nothing opens. Or when it does open, it won’t function. It’s like frozen, or stuck on a loading page.
And in some cases, it’s like your phone forgets stuff you entered. You set a reminder to do something, but your phone quietly deletes it or turns it off. Maybe you use a calendar app, but your events sometimes get deleted.
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