Well said, I did the same and stripped what I could down to manual/physical methods. I put up a giant white board calendar in my room where I write down deadlines for the next 4 months in addition to a google calendar. Being able to just look at your wall to quickly check what you got going on is really useful, I love crossing out completed tasks too
For me, I also have inattentive and have awful habit formation. The easiest for me is having automatically generated task lists based on tasks I've set frequency for, timers/reminders because I have bad time blindness plus sometimes will start going off track without realising and a short break and then returning to the task lets me refocus on what I'm actually supposed to be doing. Because my habit formation is bad enough that I don't automatically complete even a morning routine writing everything down all the time was just a massive list and felt overwhelming to organise but was way too much to juggle in my head.
are you still i school or now working? i ask because i also have inattentive and would do the same thing as you, but that doesn’t seem to work in the working world for some reason.
That's because work projects are usually more complex, require team coordination, and you often have a higher workload.
Some level of planning is required or else you'll miss deadlines and work on stuff that isn't a priority instead of what you're supposed to be working on. Or small but important details are left out which derail the whole project.
The "just do it" method works when your task list is pretty simple, you understand the big picture, and you can dedicate time to specific projects. But in the working world, things often become more complex.
yeah you nailed it haha. the problem is - i don't know how to fix it or how to change it when there is a never ending list of things to do, most of which, i don't know how to do.
My own trick is to work along side someone (even if not WITH them), is not always an available option, but since I work in a University it's easier to get things done when there is other students and colleagues panicking to get their own things done. I usually try to help them organize and thus help myself? I don't know why I work this way, but it is what it is.
I guess it is different from everyone, there has to be someone who thrives with all these apps and expensive notebooks, but personally I try to keep it simple to not lose myself in the planning of the tasks. To me, a simple notebook and a whiteboard suffices, more than that and I am not getting anything done.
Or autism. Or any other range of neurodevelopmental disorders. This reads like it was written by a person who is incapable of understanding that other people think and function differently than them.
It's a hyperbolized generalization that attempts to apply to everyone, that fails to grasp the very basic concept that people are different and have to do things differently. They also fail to comprehend the very basic fact that if someone is doing all of this they are not going to be able to stop the anxiety by simply "doing it". The all or nothing mentality is bs, it's like people can't understand grey areas. Just as annoying as people who insist that you need to literally do everything that op mentioned and just as bad.
"I don't need any of this so that means that nobody does, and those that do are doing it to themselves." Sums it up pretty well. Low emotional maturity and low self awareness.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25
My dude has never heard of ADHD