Honestly it’s more like
Oh boy, a well-defined task with a beginning, progress, an end, and an obvious benefit to someone! I get to be valuable!
versus
I have several days’ worth of clean clothes, there is no need to rush
Is this really an ADHD thing? I will go out of my way to help other people, but yeah, I can’t be bothered to fold my own laundry so I just throw it all in a clothes basket and stick it in the closet.
It’s not exclusively ADHD but a lot of us ADHD folks seem to be like this.
The difference I think is for ADHD it’s not “can’t be bothered to fold my own laundry” it’s “I cannot force myself to fold laundry and if I try I will lose focus on the task and be scrolling my phone within 30 seconds of starting.”
more than that, in my experience when i simply cannot do something and try to force myself to do it, it leads to me feeling like i’m going to die.
The phone scrolling is a form of self-defence to distract from that feeling of “i’m useless and god is about to smite me for sucking so hard”
With this site I feel it’s like… aren’t these problems everyone suffers from? Or am I just projecting my potential fear of having a condition 😅
If everyone had this particular issue the world would be very different I think.
Just pondering on my own misery, cause I can relate is all. Wasn’t trying to put OP down for feeling it. I’ll try to be more careful with the wording next time thx
Oh, I didn’t share this to say that I’m going to ban you. I just thought that this post would answer your question. I made a lot of comments today and I was too tired to bother with explaining things.
As has been said previously to this question: most people likely have issues like this from time to time, what makes it problematic is having them almost constantly and to such a degree that it’s crippling.
Everyone coughs from time to time, but if you have a chronic cough that’s so bad that you cough up blood every time, that’s not normal and you need to see a doctor.
Sometimes it helps to think of yourself as a friend you are helping out.
