One of the hardest things to explain to people without ADHD:
• when it’s interesting, I can start on it
• when it’s uninteresting, I can’t
Note that the second one is not “I don’t want to.” I literally CAN’T.
I have to convince my brain it is interesting to even get started.
ADHD Jesse
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2025-03-06 23:26:44 UTC
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