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IGORRR - ADHD
#IGORRR #ADHD

Anyone with #ADHD or #ADD out there?
Does your work involve a computer with internet access?
How do you manage distractions?
How do you resist the impulse to go on hour long yak shaving tangents all the time?
I'm serious. It's gotten to a point where it threatens my employment.

I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD

I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.

excellent description of executive functioning predicaments
... in a thread at Ask a Manager about ADHD.
I wouldn't recommend the whole comments section this time, because there was too much "well _I_ manage" and missing the point, but I thought this comment from "Han about town" laid out the essence of it really well. Here's a snippet on the challenge of consistently filling out timesheets:
"Monetary penalties or privileges have zero effect on the behaviour, because the behaviour is not moderated by risk, reward, or consequences. It’s moderated by how well I’m able to perform a very rote, boring, *consistent* task on a repeated basis, which is very poorly."
#ADHD #neurodivergence #ExecutiveFunction #rewards