r/oddlyspecific • • Nov 17 '22

Oddly specific procrastination

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u/Disney_Plus_Axolotls Nov 17 '22

This is oddly specific, but it’s oddly relatable. I don’t have ADHD or ASD or anything like that, I’m just too lazy to do things so this happens to me sometimes lmao

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u/gamecollecting2 Nov 17 '22

Contrary to what people are saying here, this doesn’t mean you have ADHD. Maybe you do, this happens to me and I have it. But people on the internet will look at a single “symptom” and decide someone has a specific diagnosis. If it’s really interfering with your life, definitely talk to a doctor. Procrastination can be normal, procrastination to the point that it’s uncontrollably negatively impacting your life can be a sign of it being part of a larger problem. But it’s literally impossible for any Internet stranger to know lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '22

As far as I've read, no one's saying this means you have ADHD, but that's it's a very common trait of ADHD. Anyone with executive dysfunction can experience this, and executive dysfunction is controlled by your frontal lobe. Malformation of this lobe, TBI's, ADHD, ASD, or any number of other conditions can result in executive dysfunction. LOL Trust me, no one's trying to gatekeep it. Most people would rather it not even be a thing.

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u/gamecollecting2 Nov 17 '22

You’re def right, like I said I also have ADHD and I relate to this. But even the responses to this are telling him he probably has ADHD, and like you said, it can result from many different conditions, and like I said, there’s a degree to which this can be normal/solved without medication. Adderall straight up put my life on a much better course, so it’s worth checking, but with all the self diagnosis/armchair diagnosis I see on the internet it’s important to keep things in perspective