My logical brain vs the part of the brain that's actually in charge. I wish the logical part of the brain won more often
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Yep. Knowing what the solution is only compounds the guilt for not doing it. Let me ignore it by focusing on other things just a little bit longer.
Side note: I'm most productive when I'm about to hit a deadline. I hate that about myself. I'm always relieved if / when it doesn't blow up in my face. Had two of those in the past two weeks. Both looked like they were gonna be disasters when I was cranking them out. In both cases. the disaster was averted. Holy shit.
Gee, buddy boy, wish I fuckin' could!
For those not in know: it's like telling someone with a broken ankle to "just walk". That's why it's important to know that ADHD should be treated like any other handicap.
Stop trying to make me feel bad about feeling bad about all my bullshit.
If I don't have a long enough stretch of time to do it all at once, I ain't starting it.
But seriously, getting medicated has done wonders for being able to start multi-day projects. I'm learning VBA right now because I want to automate some of my processes at work. I'm finally cool with starting something I can't finish today. Generally, I want my code to do some fairly specific and complex things. So I'm happy to spend a few hours tweaking a block to make it do exactly what I want, and it feels so good when it works as expected. But before getting on meds? Nah, I wouldn't even entertain the idea because I wouldn't know where to start. Medicine helps me draw up an outline of what I want to do with my code, then achieve those tasks bit by bit.
And that's applied across everything I do. It's okay to not finish today. But it's important to start.
If you like pina colada
Imagine having a working executive function
Which is which? I can relate to both. Is that the joke? OMG
If I COULD just do the shit, it would not be a source of stress
Why do you have to personally attack me like that?
But there is a logic in that: shit is finite, or at least it has a finite speed of income. The more shit you do the less shit is left. If you do shit fast enough you can reach the state when you have a minimum shit at a given time. It is good.
Ah yes, because people without ADHD do not procrastinate 🙄.
You ADHD wannabes are fucking cultists. Not everything is ADHD.
That's been my exact response. So many things here are just... normal human behaviours.
Normal people feel sad. Feeling sad consistently and having it harm your life and not knowing how to fix it is called depression. People with these problems aren't aliens showing weird never been seen before behaviors or emotions, but their lives are consistently disrupted by these normal things. It's a problem of how often and how much the person can control it.
If normal people feel it, the first response to that behaviour should NOT be "ADHD", just pure statistics logic.
If you can't comprehend that, and those memes lead to people self-diagnosing as having a disease they don't have because they "can relate", that's just fucking stupid.
Wow, people are so extreme on the Internet. One comment saying maybe take a step back and we're already at "fucking stupid".
This comic is relevant to general human experience and ADHD, both are true and valid. The comic didn't tell people to self diagnose and no one here has told anyone to self diagnose.
It's a facilitator? Why can't you understand that?
It's akin to having paid publicity, normalizing ADHD with the goal of having more people want to join the categorization. Just so some individuals can propagate their group identity. There's no science behind saying something "is an ADHD behaviour" in any of the memes or posts within these communities.
Ergo they're basically propaganda, or misinformation to specify. It's maddening the amount of people who later self identify as having ADHD from memes.
If you can't see how that's infuriating, you're part of the problem.
I don't really find it infuriating and I don't think that makes me part of a problem. Self diagnosis can sometimes trivialize the people actually suffering from the problem, and there van be real harm there. So I definitely agree with you to some extent. But some people are so hungry for community that self diagnosing some problem like ADHD makes them part of something else. That's sad to me, but not infuriating.
I do understand that mislabeling normal things as a mental health issue can be problematic. I wish you didn't assume I thought otherwise from our small exchange. My point of responding was that I find it really annoying when people say "well everyone does or feels X so there's nothing wrong with you". I think that also does a lot of damage to people.
I'd say that the person on display in the comic doesn't seem to be showing "normal" or "healthy" procrastination to me, but there is room for disagreement I guess.