Examples:

  • Kid’s electronic toy that we loved is broken. Instead of throwing it away, I put it in a box because “surely, I’ll find the time to fix it”
  • After moving, valuables are “temporarily” in plastic bags, because I’ll buy & assemble a showcase soon enough.

None of these things ever happen. I make the planning as if I did not an attention disorder. Although I had it all my life.

Now that I’m in treatment, I would have thought that my brain works in a way I’d need to get used to. But no, it just works in the way I always assumed when I made a plan.

It’s just so strange that the planning seems to assume an intact prefrontal cortex, rather than adjusting to how it actually works.

  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    In my experience, ADHD meds make it easier to stay in task rather than getting distracted, but they don’t make it any easier for me to actually start tasks!

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      Absolutely same! Executive dysfunction is my biggest problem: starting things, making decisions and taking initiatives.

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      Wow, so different for everybody! For me, it went from the feeling of giving myself a cigarette burn to “eager to start”.