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- you place an overdue library book on the floor in front of the front door. the library book merges seamlessly with the environment. six weeks later, you trip over it on your way out the house to go to the library.
You got the last part wrong. I tripped over it on the way home from the library…
Ha!
you haven’t watched the movie.
I know this is a common experience with ADHD, but somehow I’m the opposite. Visual media makes me hyper focus. As a kid, I was usually the only one still awake at the end of a late night movie. If there’s a tv on and someone is trying to talk to me, it takes a lot of effort to focus on what’s being said to me. I can’t put things on in the background unless it’s just music. Does anyone else experience this?
I got diagnosed with ADHD at 40 but up till now I’d just assumed I was a bad lazy person who’s badness at life was the reason for all of my various problems. Stuff like this has me wondering if … perhaps I was not just awful and lazy all the time?
so many people with executive dysfunction have come to this realization thru memes ❤️
I would add: beyond executive dysfunction, people who also have low intrinsic motivation (ability to “just do it”) and/or difficulty initiating, are also not bad people!
while it is our responsibility to always work on and improve our weak points, these aspects of temperament exist as they are, no matter how much moralizing busybodies insist otherwise.
I think you’ll find that awful or lazy was never true, and the potential was always there buried deep. You just didn’t have the right tools.
