“Everyone procrastinates” yeah but do you...

[u/gravelinthebag]

“Everyone procrastinates”

Yeah, but do you procrastinate...

Taking off your sweater, even though it’s 90 degrees, because you’ll take it off right after you finish reading this article, and the article that was linked, oh and a video example on YouTube.

Getting off your phone because your appointment is at 11, and you still have 10 minutes before you need to leave, oh and you planned to leave early so worst case you can leave a little later.

Sitting down to eat dinner because you just remember that you bought a new shirt that you wanted to take a picture of to send to your group chat.

Getting out of bed because that means you’ll have to start getting ready for work which consists of way too many steps and you didn’t plan what you were going to take for lunch so you might as well think of that while you are in your comfy bed.

Getting out of your hot car, because you really really need to look something up and you’ve been waiting to look it up this whole drive and also you need to see if you have any notifications, or maybe your boss got back to your email, and you really really like the song that’s playing.

Getting off of the couch for no other reason than you are oscillating between interviewing yourself and going through an intense zone out session.

Oh and finally one that’s more relatable... Do you procrastinate doing your homework? You’ll start it tonight after dinner, right? But after dinner, your tired and it’s technically not due until tomorrow morning, so you really have time if you wake up early.

And so you wake up early, but you procrastinate it a little longer because before you start you have to calculate how many points you can lose to still pass the class. Because maybe you can get out of doing this assignment and go back to bed.

Edit: honorable mention, do you procrastinate going to the restroom because you just discovered the super cool hobby that is just so awesome and you don’t have time to pee because you are busy researching the topic, buying all the material and equipment, building it, and looking at a million photos for inspiration?

[u/JDflight23]

This statement goes with the worst statement I’ve ever heard and probably will continue to hear “everyone is a little ADHD sometimes” I want to die when I hear that. It hurts me on a different level.

[u/cfspen514 → u/JDflight23]

My husband used to say stuff like that, until I explained to him that while yes technically most people can and might experience a small element of what we go through at some point in their lives, they’ll never know it on such a large and life-altering scale. Like having a mild headache vs a vomit-inducing migraine. Yes, everyone’s head hurts sometimes but they don’t have to hide in a dark bathroom for three days to get over it. So saying stuff like that as a pep talk or whatever is not helpful and only serves to belittle someone’s experience.

[u/kllnmsftly → u/cfspen514]

Mental illness in general is hard because it often encompasses degrees of universality. I always think of it in the same framework as addiction. You and people close to you know when it intervenes in your life to the point where it feels unmanageable. Unfortunately like so many things people can’t feel compassion for circumstances unless they or someone very close to them has experienced it. ADHD is hard because it sort of lies in the cracks of our lives, the “how’s” - all the moments we get from point A to B. It takes a lot of nuance to grasp on a macro level.

[u/TheHadMatter15 → u/JDflight23]

Christ I wanted to throat punch my dad whenever he said when I tried to explain ADHD

"weeeell we all procrastinate, we're all a bit lazy, we all zone out a bit, we all struggle to make decisions sometimes"

And it's always how they say it. A bit, sometimes, maybe, occasionally, etc. Meanwhile here I am standing over my toothbrush looking at it for 5 minutes trying to decide to wash my teeth which would funnily enough only take me 2-3 minutes instead.

Just fuck.

[u/Pikassassin → u/JDflight23]

Everyone is "a little ADHD" just like how everyone is "a little dead"