That’s executive functioning failure. It’s common with ADHD (which is strongly comorbid with Autism) but not unique to it.

Basically, the part of your brain dealing with task focus is either asleep or exhausted. At that point, you are running on pure impulsiveness.

If you get locked in, the best bet is to stop banging your head against a brick wall. Stop trying to do the big task, that is stressing you. Instead aim for a small, neutral or positive task to lock on to. E.g. throwing together a sandwich, or going to the loo, rather than “I REALLY need to get my taxes done!” It’s a far from perfect method (it still fails often), but it does help kickstart you back to higher brain thinking.

damp. laying in an empty bathtub with my towel covering me. scrolling Lemmy… it’s 4 am. I need to be at work at 5 am. I worked last night til 10 pm

This is the shit that made me actively seek a doctor to tell me wtf is wrong with me. I never heard of “executive function” before being diagnosed with half a dozen abbreviations. I just thought I was lazy and didn’t have the secret normal functioning people know.

Oh hey, my life for the past decade

Have you tried playing Minecraft while eating chips

That’s the point where I realize the working day is over. No more productivity left in this body for today…

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s/eating chips/scrolling Lemmy/

lgtm

Body torture still feel a tad worse, if you ask me.

Why does it make so much sense???

I have this problem all the time. Ever since I was a kid. I always think it’s just a lack of discipline. For some reason, I keep denying that it could be ADHD.