I know this has to be a common thing or at least I assume it to be but whenever I hear people talk about ADHD they describe the procrastination but also mention that usually their anxiety/fear of missing a due date pushes them to do it last minute and I just don't feel this. I never feel that anxiety about missing and assignment and I don't get that extra motivation to do it so it usually doesn't get done. Then when it doesn't get done I say oh no and move on, doesn't cross my mind until I look at my grades and wonder how this could have possibly happened.

Idk where I'm going with this but it is a behavioral pattern I noticed about myself and don't like. I think it originated from gradeschool because I was able to get by without doing any homework so I trained myself to not care about those but thats mainly speculation.

Anyone know how to idk mitigate this? I can't be the only one

  • Noven [any]
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    9 months ago

    One thing that really helped me overcome that complete lack of a stress response and learn how to study after avoiding it until college was putting myself into the right environments for certain things. I had no issues actually getting stuff done in class but at home there's no external motivator to getting stuff done, I learnt i'd have to force myself to walk to the library every week at the same time to get any studying done.

    Works for a lot of facets of life, if I want to workout I know I have to drag myself to the gym every week because i'm not going to workout regularly at home, if I want to watch a movie i'll go see it at the cinema because i'll pause it every 15 minutes if I watch it on TV.