It's so true. Lately I've been having some mild success in calmly reasoning to myself that task x is actually very small and that it will be miserable trying to avoid it. I've been very happy with this.
My partner, I kid you not, has both rearranged their entire bedroom, and reorganized their bookshelves (by taking ALL of their books off first), before making their bed.. which they still have not done. I have tried explaining to them that to someone without ADHD would just.. make their bed. And would choose just making their bed over rearranging their room, or reorganizing well over 100 books. I tell them that they would rather take all the "side quests" rather than the "main mission", even if the side quests are perceived as worse to someone without ADHD 😭
Omg dude this is me stra8 up and yea I totally have adhd I was told as a kid that I had add but now they found out it's adhd with autism this video is so funny and makes me not feel so bad after all thanks so much I'm definitely subbing ❤
Me: sees the 2 dishes in the sink Also me: I can do it later, right now I’ll just do that other thing Dishes are now overflowing from the sink and I’m in my room knowing this was going to happen.
Strange, can ADHD be sometimes present and other times not? I have some symptons sometimes, makes impossible to get ANYTHING DONE, other times I can fufill many tasks easily.
I do my best to wash the dishes as soon as I’m done using them, the stink of a pile of dirty dishes affects me. My huge problem is that I never put the clean dishes away. While trying to organize and declutter my apartment, I thought it would be best to wash them by hand, but them them dry in the dishwasher. I figured they would be clean and out of sight. So now, I just keep on piling them up on the dishwasher rack for weeks+ .My friend visited the other day and asked for a spoon, I could not find a single one, I had to asked her to go search on the dishwasher. 🤷🏻♀️
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was an adult and was prescribed Vivanse. The first day I took it at breakfast I cleaned up my entire home office, then the inside if my car, mowed the lawn, organised the garage, skipped lunch, mowed the lawn, skipped dinner, tidied the rest of the house, then finally, at 4:00am, started on outstanding paperwork.
First time I tried adderall, I spent the whole day working on a ‘Home Alone’ lego set, I completely forgot to eat, drink water, pee, and exist. It was like a fever dream. Now it just a rots on the buffet table behind the dining room lol.
ADHD traits are normal human traits. They are just "amplified" and you more of the "amplified" ones. Normal people can easily relate to stand alone traits. They just don't relate to all traits with the same intensity basically.
@@BeefyZawgHaving ADHD is not fun it’s fcking miserable. Almost everything is harder for you and I’m not proud of sharing it with others because it just seems like a stupid excuse. Seeing stuff like this reminds that I’m not alone out there. Let the people comment and talk about themselves if it helps it helps.
@@uniqueplatypus7435you know what's "miserable" living in a third world country meeting mistreated sexually harassed, you don't live a miserable life because you are a little hyper reactive. You just want us to feel bad for something everyone has.
As somone with Austism, i find videos about different mental issues very intersting, because i see the sink and i think "man, that really pisses me off, i gotta clean that right the F now otherwise it will ruin my day". Lol loved the short!😂
I have both and while part of me agrees with you the other part of me agrees with the guy in this video! I see the dishes and get upset because it’s not perfect, but it looks and feels like there is more to do than there is so no matter what I end up upset. I always feel like I’m fighting myself and even when I do a task like this I don’t get the good feeling that others get by accomplishing tasks, just anger and sadness that I had to do it. And there is no “I will knock this out real quick “ because I’m so incredibly slow even with just a few dishes because I end up being so thorough in cleaning them! (Which is why I get angry). So it feels like a lose-lose situation no matter what. The best I can do is with utensils I only have one of (like the pizza cutter and the ice cream scooper) because I tell myself I can’t eat the pizza or the ice cream until these utensils are clean and if I clean them it means I can have more the next day! But this doesn’t work for dishes or utensils I have multiples of .
@@PugLove8 yeah I totally agree with you on the cleaning them to perfection and being slow with it. I also don't get the satisfaction of doing a task like that as well. Maybe I have both too lol
It's either that or you hyperfocus on it for hours and end up with the sink and cupboards looking better than the rest of the house and then thinking that you should clean the rest of the house but put it off until tomorrow and then that's what eventually leads to the ADHD paralysis
@@MaddoBatto Basically it's the levels of ADHD with is basically how long you can focus on something on average some people can focus for only a second some for a minute it all depends on how your brain developed but take this with a grain of salt I am not a professional just a guy speaking from personal experience
Make it urgent to finish before the clock hits a certain time or before the next song on the radio starts and ends. You get a dopamine fix because you're in a hurry and because you finished something. Works for me
The only thing that works for me is messing with my brain and tricking myself intro "procrastinating" with other tasks, it's not as easy as it sounds. It's all fun and games until I find I put the spoons in the refrigerator. Yes, that actually happened before. No, that didn't only happen once.
You forgot to mention all of the miniscule tasks on the way to the kitchen, plus the original task which you would have to come back to after doing the dishes.. 😂😂😂
yes! I started setting a timer for dishes so I wouldn't get overwhelmed. I've been working through a backlog so I set mine for 30 minutes but one day soon I'll be able to go down to 10 🥺😀
Timers for real help. Another useful thing is to count off in your head. I tend to let clean clothes stack up before I put them away. So I started counting off 3 minutes in my head. For 3 minutes, put clothes up. I actually get most of it done in that time. I think the biggest problem is having no internal clock. I tend to think some things take forever and they don't or some things are quick and they absolutely aren't. Just today I looked at the stove clock sideways and it hid the one at the beginning of 12:14. So I read it as 2:14, thought I somehow lost two whole hours, and just readily accepted that fact.
I feel like if I add another step, like grabbing a phone or something to time it, I'll be less likely to do it. Plus the counting focuses me, gives me something else to be doing so I don't get distracted like I might if I had a timer. I would check it every ten seconds to see if it was still going or to make sure time still worked in the universe.
@@leaelzebub811 I totally understand that! I find setting timers for things like homework to be useless because my petulant 5yo adhd brain says "I know that's made up and I can ignore it" but I've also had methods just stop working after a point so I've tried to build up cycles of different methods
It’s always takes longer for me because all of the bowls, plates, small plates, small bowls, plate-bowl hybrids, second set of plate-bowl hybrids and the giant mugs all have to be stacked by size, type and colour first
