16 days ago · Tech · 0 comments

I am tired from a constant struggle to write a report about results I have obtained in the past few months of my postdoc. The main issue is that my mind does not want to do it; it's simply boring or not stimulating enough for my ADHD mind. This problem is not the only one I face because of less stimulation. Another example is doing the household work. Of course I am aware it's boring for most people, but for an ADHD mind it is even worse. I can stay hungry the whole day to avoid deciding what to cook. It is a very boring task. Similarly, I can ignore an important doctor's visit for six months simply because I need to first book an appointment. It is also a boring task. This problem of lack of stimulation in the ADHD mind is well known in scientific world. But it took me almost 30 years (I am in my mid-thirties) to understand why I failed do the same things as most people. And thanks to that, I do not blame myself if I am failing in some activty temporarily. -- Meadow wrote in a…

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