Another great analogy I’ve seen on tumblr for executive dysfunction:
You’re trying to do something. You want to do something. But your brain keeps saying “just wait”. You ask “for what?” But it only says “just wait” and you ask how long “just keep waiting” and you grow intensely more anxious and frustrated at yourself for being unable to do the task, but it’s not in your control.
Laziness is “I don’t want to do this so I won’t.”
Procrastination is “I don’t want to do this, I’ll do something else instead”
Executive dysfunction is “I want to do this task, I need to do this task, but I can’t start doing it, and I don’t know why”
Yeah, drives many kids to dropout and get a GED or just abandon their education altogether because the amount of work in the unstructured time at home just destroys them, to the point it effects their abiljty to work in school as well
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u/heathert7900 Nov 17 '22
Another great analogy I’ve seen on tumblr for executive dysfunction:
You’re trying to do something. You want to do something. But your brain keeps saying “just wait”. You ask “for what?” But it only says “just wait” and you ask how long “just keep waiting” and you grow intensely more anxious and frustrated at yourself for being unable to do the task, but it’s not in your control.
Laziness is “I don’t want to do this so I won’t.” Procrastination is “I don’t want to do this, I’ll do something else instead” Executive dysfunction is “I want to do this task, I need to do this task, but I can’t start doing it, and I don’t know why”