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RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116270479206058052

having another morning like this and feeling like I should share a bit more about this #ADHD self-accommodation: dealing with a period of absolutely overwhelming tons-of-overhead (i.e.: tedious, annoying, anxiety-provoking tasks) but I've been mostly managing to avoid the pitfall of "stare blankly, exhausted, incapable of progress" by rationing my overhead per day

Glyph

@[email protected] · 6 days ago

Folks with #ADHD, we all love to excitedly post some hyperfocus output. Slightly less, we can be funny, commiserating, or even just relatably vulnerable when posting about struggle and failure.

But perhaps more often we should post about it when we have a day like I did today: I started the day way behind on a ton of tasks, painfully slogged through them one at a time, re-focused through one interruption after another, and I'm ending the day still behind, but *less behind* than in the morning.

#adhd

Glyph

@[email protected] · 18 hours ago

I've seen a bunch of folks talking about "managing energy, not time" and although I've tried to do that for many years, none of it really clicked for me on a visceral level until recently. It's frustrating because every day it feels like "I've still got an hour, I should do 3 more to-do items, ugh, there's so much left". The point where I run out of "energy", hit the wall, and get to the point where *tomorrow's* admin time will be useless wall-staring does not *feel* like my breaking point

Michael Newton

@mavnn · 16 hours ago

@[email protected] yeah, starting to talk openly about my #adhd at conferences suddenly meant I got asked a bunch of questions where it was obvious people needed to hear about and be validated in the 'average' or 'somewhat hard' days, not just the 'this worked great this one time' and 'pit of despair' days. Which also led to writing things like blog.mavnn.eu/2025/09/16/stu...

Stun lock procrastination

Glyph

@[email protected] · 18 hours ago

I know that ego-depletion *qua* ego-depletion is not a real effect, and so I wasn't sure what managing "energy" really even meant any more. And this little self-experiment is in line with that; this is not fixed by a little glucose or a good night's sleep, which *would* fix it under a simplistic "ego-depletion" theory; it's a longer-term psychological effect that implicates activation energy over longer periods of time. Not sure if there's literature on this but the effect is real for me.