This reminds me of a recent thread where someone said they had a hard time feeling motivated to try new hobbies.
They were told by a few people to just try new hobbies.
A (nice) coworker once asked me if I had a system for managing tasks.
I thought they were asking to learn, so I enthusiastically told them about the ~30 different systems I use; the inbox of all incoming tasks, a flowchart for task allocation, urgency VS importance whiteboards, etc, etc. I mentioned each of the books and methodologies those systems came from. (I highly recommend this 5min vid and listening to Order from Chaos (written by and for people with ADHD))
"Oh... cool" was their response, and in that moment I realized they were actually asking because they thought I didn't have any system at all...
The less pixels in this Affleck reaction correlates directly to how exhausted one is
"Thanks, I'll add a note to make a schedule"
makes schedule never
this is my cue to show them the million task lists and corresponding calendar appointments with 87 notifications each
"have you tried doing a backflip 360 noscope into nosegrind into mctwist into nose manual folding your laundry and working how you're supposed to?"
Tell me HOW to do stuff, don't just tell me to do stuff.
Therapy was a good start to stop wallowing and beating myself up, but my journey into actually doing stuff I need to do is still long and arduous.
This is because most therapists (in my loooooong experience) have absolutely zero understanding of executive dysfunction :|
