Meanwhile, my ADHD: Why not both?
Overwhelmed by the presence of the unbelievable number of 2 tasks and be bored by the distraction I use to procrastinate
And people wonder why I cheat in single player video games!
That’s my escapism and wish fulfilment time, don’t need it to be as frustratingly difficult as the real world!
and then rely on the procrastination anxiety to push you to get those number 2 tasks done
So bored, so much schoolwork to do. 😮💨
Same. Chiming in from my desk. With 50 unread emails. And a 7 figure capital project in progress I really need to be calling vendors about status updates.
Haven’t hit the procrastination ----> anxiety hyper focus tipping point yet.
Every time I see a meme here it makes me think I probably have undiagnosed ADHD.
I was about to type the exact same comment. But then again in every thread there are people saying “this isn’t an ADHD only thing! Everyone does it! People with ADHD just do it to the extreme!” So who the fuck knows.
The general thing with mental illness classification is “does the behaviour have a severe negative impact on your life?” (I know “severe” isn’t well-defined either though).
Something like Social Anxiety Disorder is probably the easiest to understand what’s meant by “severe”. Everyone has some social anxiety (and those that don’t are usually socially oblivious) but most people don’t have that anxiety stop them from completing necessary everyday tasks like making an appointment for a haircut or going to the grocery store (and make it take a lot of effort to do so when circumstances eventually force you to). It doesn’t require the extreme case of some people that can’t even leave their house out of that fear, but it has to have an impact.
Not sure if that helps in any way, in the end a professional diagnosis is the only way to really find out.
Ideal scenario: low stakes high priority items I hear about the morning of, can complete without having to consult anything else, and can slack off the other hour or two with no other ongoing tasks.
Oh and you figured how to optimize the process by 10 minutes and figured out a problem you hadn’t dealt with before by finding a co-worker’s previous document, which only took you 15 minutes. The contractor praises you for the quick turnaround.
Me, every single time I have an extended amount of time off from work. There’s so much time I can do anything I want, what’s there even to do. What do I want to do? Wrestle with that until the last day then find something I really want to do and end up not having a lot of time for it.
