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Any obligation that I have, even one that I'm literally looking forward to, usually dominates in my mind as an obligation first and foremost

  • I recently learned about Pathological Demand Avoidance - it’s been helpful as a framework for me to understand some of my own frequent experiences in this area. Particularly in the instances when it’s all internal: a goal I’ve set or a promise I’ve made to myself can often become the one thing I will avoid at all costs for no apparent reason. Between PDA and just general executive dysfunction (yayy AuDHD), learning about these things helps me understand why it can be so unbelievably hard for me to get anything done sometimes. Still sucks, but it makes more sense :)

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    Do you use ChatGPT to take on any executive functioning tasks? What have you used it for in that regard?

  • Not ChatGPT much - keeping track of what I’m trying to accomplish while also crafting an effective prompt with the right level of specificity / guiding the tool through multiple revisions etc is also pretty EF demanding sometimes. I guess I can find the “blank canvas” of a chat prompt overwhelming as a starting point.

    On the other hand, more ADHD-focused tools built on top of the models that power chatGPT like goblin.tools are amazing for this type of stuff!

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    [Rant] Completely burned out

  • Same, man I feel this. AuDHD here - masked so hard all throughout college and barely made it. Spent 4 years getting an associates degree at my community college because despite working my ass off I kept barely failing classes & having to retake them due to what I have since learned were undiagnosed / untreated ADHD (& commorbid) symptoms… all just so the credit would transfer to a “real” school for my bachelor’s. Then went to an online school for an IT degree in software development where I could work at my own pace / jump straight to the finals for most classes - never interacted with another student and completed the BA in 1 year.

    Fast forward a few years, burnt out so hard at my job as a software engineer that I had to go on disability leave last summer because the crippling depression & anxiety were literally incapacitating… spent the whole summer and all of my savings on therapy & coaching. And still almost lost my job a couple months after coming back because I had fried my brain trying to work through everything and couldn’t handle a fraction of the workload that I had been able to a year before…

    Being ND in a world designed for neurotypical brains fucking sucks :(

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    I’m Pathologically Demand Avoidant. It Rules. A need for freedom & healthy suspicion of authority has protected me, not hurt me.

  • Ohhh… I see haha 😅 Thanks for explaining! (In case anyone else runs into this: seems like I couldn’t see it due to a bug in the Lemmy client I’m using - no problems if I view the post in browser)

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    I’m Pathologically Demand Avoidant. It Rules. A need for freedom & healthy suspicion of authority has protected me, not hurt me.

  • Ohhh… I see haha 😅 Thanks for explaining! (In case anyone else runs into this: seems like I couldn’t see it due to a bug in the Lemmy client I’m using - no problems if I view the post in browser)

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    I’m Pathologically Demand Avoidant. It Rules. A need for freedom & healthy suspicion of authority has protected me, not hurt me.

  • Thank you for sharing these highlights! Got a link to the full article? 🙏