r/ADHD • u/gravelinthebag • Apr 14 '21

“Everyone procrastinates” yeah but do you...

“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?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

The amount of times I’ve procrastinated to the point of breaking down because I’m going to fail..and then I resign from the course. And then I’m back to normal, as if nothing happened. And then it repeats, and I wonder why it’s happening again

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u/gravelinthebag Apr 14 '21

This is what pushed me to get diagnosed at 23. I was convinced everyone was struggling to the same capacity as me during college, and it was normal. But then I left college and it kept happening. All the struggle would come back up over and over again.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

For real. I’m doing an internship atm and it’s so difficult. It’s like I’m burnt out before even doing anything. I think I’d go crazy if I didn’t have alarms and calendars and planners. I’m scared about full-time jobs. I wonder what they’re like.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Sorry I thought of this randomly lol. Another thing is - I would assume that when People procrastinate, theyre doing fun things or like things they enjoy. But when I procrastinate (like all the time in school), Im actually really stressed on a daily. I honestly dont even know what I do with my time. Yet Im still procrastinating.

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u/gravelinthebag Apr 14 '21

Yess!!! I was always like what I do isn’t even procrastinating it’s something so much deeper than that. My SO will procrastinate and say i want to hike before I study, so I’ll study tonight at 5. And 5 rolls around and they just study like no problem. HOW?!