astropenguin5

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[โ€“] astropenguin5@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Now that sounds like it's leaning into anti-semetic Nazi bullshit. Would you say that all Jews should be killed?

And for the record I'm not in the slightest pro-israel

I'll let my life fall apart from neglect, but heaven forbid someone else become slightly inconvenienced!

Exactly. It is frustrating sometimes though knowing exactly what is wrong with my brain and why I struggle and yet having such a hard time dealing with it.

 

This post is an explanation of how my personal motivation works, and I am curious how others here relate to it, and if it is a common thing with ADHD.

For starters, I have inattentive-type ADHD, have been diagnosed and on various medications for ~5 years, and am roughly college age for context. I am very highly motivated by other people, basically anything where people are depending on my for something, or will directly help/harm someone depending on my actions. Of course I still have executive dysfunction struggles regardless, but that external motivation helps immensely.

In school this manifested as struggling a lot with homework (often not doing it), but doing very well in-class and with group projects. In my limited work and internship experiences, somewhat predicably, I have done very well as directly working hands-on with coworkers highly motivates me. Unfortunately, personal life progression things like actually getting a job and finding and applying for further education is the exact opposite, and is a struggle. There are of course plenty more examples, but I think that gives the gist of my experience.

[Cross posted from !adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com cuz I forgor that was mainly a memes community]