Post #1023302

2025-01-12 01:28 UTC

So, yesterday I heard a phrase about ADHD that I’d never heard before: “Everything is a task, nothing is a habit.” And damn, that totally explains why my brain is always all tired. Between having to actively think about every task throughout a day, and task initiation being a bitch and a half, my brain is just fighting itself all day. I can get some shaky routines going, but I still have to actively think about all the tasks within that routine. Universe did some shit QC on human brains.

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@cafechatnoir@mastodon.social 2025-01-12 01:35

And the funny thing is, my brain looks at work as just one really long task. So at the end of the day, I'm thinking "Well, I worked, but that's just one thing" and somehow feel very unproductive.

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@nicole@queer.group 2025-01-12 01:56

@cafechatnoir ooh, right, acknowledging other people don't have to think about everything they do really explains why others aren't constantly overthinking and stumbling through the puns of life, huh :blobcatthink:

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@levampyre@chaos.social 2025-01-12 07:44

@cafechatnoir I feel the same, but diagnosed with ASD. I also constantly have a tab open in my brain on each and every task I need to do during the day (even showering and brushing teeth, yes for me AND my kids and sometimes my ADHD wife, too). And I often think about how to optimize everything all the time, because I constantly feel that there's not enough time to do all the tasks one needs to do every day to be viewed as a responsible adult. It's so exhausting.

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@woo@fosstodon.org 2025-01-12 20:47

@cafechatnoir I have plenty of habits. I'm not claiming they're good habits but they are entirely mine.

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@the_gneech@meow.social 2025-01-13 12:06

@cafechatnoir A mood so big, the Universe cannot contain it

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@christinerose@xoxo.zone 2025-01-13 15:07

@cafechatnoir this explains so much!

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@Xjs@chaos.social 2025-01-14 15:18

@cafechatnoir @Cheatha Interesting. I don’t have reason to suspect having ADHD, but I really dislike forming habits and lose them quickly without external help (unless it is something I am very motivated to do regularly, but then it doesn’t feel like it’s a habit, it still feels like I do it when I want to, and it typically also has irregularities). Maybe I only have one small strand of ADHD in my brain.

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