Hang on… Is this an ADHD thing? Damn.
- for context…
I’m neuro divergent, I guess, but not ADHD. If anything I’m the opposite. I can focus of things incredibly well. I can prioritise and actuate tasks rather well.
However, you give me a dentist appointment at 2pm and I’m up at 7.30 with my coat on by 8, sat at my kitchen table until mid-day when I walk to the dentists and awkwardly stand outside for nearly an hour because that’s what I’m doing.
There are many reasons why people experience this. It’s most definitely not only tied to ADHD. I don’t have ADHD and I have the issue in the OP as well. It’s not because I’ll get distracted and miss it, it’s because I have anxiety that I will or simply about the thing itself. I can’t fully relax until all tasks for the day have been completed even if I am not immediately anxious about it. I think that’s a pretty common human experience and it doesn’t really make sense to pathologize it.
Yeah, I see things like this a lot and think “shit, do I have ADHD?”
Polled a few of my friends and 100% relate to this meme, so I sort of doubt it.
Not everyone who does it is ADHD, but a LOT of us that have ADHD do this.
It’s so hard to explain this to people too 😭 my entire existence just freezes until whatever is scheduled is finished. And then those times when people cancel last minute and the entire day was like this…
I hate those days so much
Wait, so is this quite a common thing?
When I try to make a conscious effort to fight it, a few things might happen…
I might miss my thing.
I might be late for my thing.
I actually got my alarm for my thing, but now I have to put down what I was working on and now it’s half finished and getting back to it is going to be even harder than starting on it.
I am so stressed and distracted by trying to stay on task for what I work on before my thing and that I can’t actually do anything else because the thought of the other possible scenarios happening weighs on my mind.
Hey thats me! Wait a minute… Did lemmy just diagnose me again?
Get out of my head Charles
I’ve gotten better at this! Tracking how long it takes me to go out for basic shopping runs, or to start up an online game for a session, etc. It sucks to surrender an entire day to one planned event with someone.
For me the problem is technicians who are arriving during some multi hour window of time.
