I've always said I was lazy, but since diagnosis I think differently. I often find myself doing a task without intending to, or I'll circle around it in case it goes away and I end up doing it anyway.
I honestly think this is just adhd? like the thing about adhd is when we don't want to do something it is MUCH harder to do it, to the extent that it's almost at "can't do it." so we can feel lazy when really it's just much harder for us to do ANYTHING unless we're interested already.
one of the things I hate doing is exercise, especially when there's no "point" to it other than exercising. like I'll go on a walk or bike TO somewhere, but I see no point in going to a gym just to use a machine that goes nowhere.
Said that many times. I live in beautiful Dorset, don't have dog, but will NOT walk. You're the first person who agrees with me. If I want to see a thing, I get in the car, see it and drive home. Easy.
I often get the 'don't wannas' for exercise, but I have also figured out that I 'don't wanna' the consequences of not doing it even more (I feel kind of crap and get restless and annoying to both myself and the people around me). So I do it anyway. (I get that it doesn't work that way for everyone.)
I can brush my teeth like a normal person and exercise *almost* like a normal person, but give me a simple admin task and I'll put it off for a decade if I get the chance.
We're doing nothing, or 40 hours of work in 4, or we're doing 2 hours at random times with no control over what it is we decide to do. And we're gonna feel like we're not doing enough no matter what we do and also are ignoring 3000 things that will take 5 min but we don't wanna. It's awesome.
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White people have weird ass jokes.
Don’t think I didn’t notice. I noticed before I replied.
(or, wait, are we really calling them skeets instead?)
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The human brain is both amazing and stupid af.