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[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

For those of us with ADHD, if you are thinking about a task every second you're not doing it and desperately want to do the task more than anything else and are devastated that you can't do it so much that you use all your energy just on trying to make yourself do the thing that you want to do but can't, that is NOT procrastination. That is executive dysfunction. It only seems like procrastination to people who have never experienced executive dysfunction and those who have only ever experienced executive dysfunction.

Procrastination is when you fully have the ability to do something and choose not to do it but to do the thing you prefer doing instead. I hadn't experienced this until very recently, after a lot of therapy and medication.

[-] cavyherd@wandering.shop 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@Kwakigra @LadyButterfly

Dani Donovan has brilliantly illustrated executive dysfunction you describe. (As it happens, this describes...most of my waking life, actually.)

Two views of ADHD paralysis: at top "looks like" view shows a person lounging on a couch, happily scrolling on their phone, ignoring all the things they should be doing. Bottom "feels like" view shows a miserable person sitting on a couch, looking around, the background filled with judgemental internal conflict and dialog about all the stuff they should be doing.

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