I misread this as erectile dysfunction and was super concerned about the solutions.

When I was a kid I had a hard time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.

Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.

There's also research that says blood sugar is really helpful for people with ADHD so having something sweet to sip on while you work can be really helpful

I think this is good advice and creating fake urgency is nothing but destructive for many. But then again we're all different and the clock setting techniques may be the perfect fit for many others. The most important thing is that you try things and if you try something that doesn't work, most of the time you can't just try again harder to make it work. That will eventually break you.

The "give yourself a treat after" type of advice is pretty shit. I know the guy who hands out the treats, and we're on pretty good terms. I'm pretty sure I can get him to give me a treat without doing the task. Heck I'll probably give myself two treats.

That final hashtag really caught me off guard, made me realise that's exactly what I've been doing to myself my whole life.

I cannot start rewarding myself before starting. I at least need to get started first. Granted i usually reward myself with beer and weed so that could be a factor

This is why I’ll never truly be able to quit nicotine. Apparently I don’t meet the threshold for adhd medication despite regular debilitating functional freeze, so nicotine and the dopamine it gives me is only reason I’m a functioning adult.

The previous works because you're putting yourself in a state of anxiety and creating adrenaline as a result. Your brain can run on adrenaline instead of dopamine, so it does that. If you learn to cope this way you'll be fucked in old age like me though. In addition to adrenaline, you're filling your body with cortisol and that will destroy you from within. Don't do it. Just go get the damn ADHD medication.

This seems like a good reading recommandation. Thanks for it and for the tip.

This assumes executive dysfunction only ever comes from lack of (available) dopamine though.

It's better advice than stressing yourself out, sure, but it may just be useless.

The only thing that has ever worked for me - and I have tried giving myself treats before and during a task - are hard, immovable deadlines.

shit. i've been sitting here needing to shower and wanting to play my video game after my shower for... hours now.

the hat man owes me money.

ain't seen that pissbaby in years

I have a jar of dope and a jar of anime girl thighs. Would one of you science wizards help me turn this into dopamine?

Anyone have any clarification on what "pretend the hat man is pointing a gun at you" means? I've never heard that phrase before.

Yeah. Take a snack, blink, ate through half a kilo of cookies.

Very rarely regulatory systems are fucked in one way only.

Personally, I find that music can help out. Just as long as you don’t have to listen to something with audio, keeping music on keeps that dopamine flowing

An old rancher once told me "Always eat your dessert first", and I've lived by that ever since.

Goals, lots and lots of goals

45 year Goals 20 year Goals 10 year Goals 5 year Goals 3 year Goals 1 year Goals 9 month Goals 6 months Goals 3 months Goals 1 months Goals 2 week Goals 1 week Goals 3 day Goals 1 day Goals 8 hour Goals

And not all Goals have to be achievable. My 20 year goal is to be so rich I'm able to pick what country I want to live there and pay someone else to figure out the paper work for me before I buy a mansion in that country and fly there on my private jet

Will that actually happen? Probably not. But whenever I don't feel like pushing through that extra task, I remind myself that it definitely won't happen if I don't try. As they say, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. And yeah, I probably won't get that rich; but trying to get that rich has helped me climb the corporate ladder and honestly, I do pretty well

Shoot for Pluto and maybe you crash on Jupiter. Still, that's pretty good. Yeah, if your goal was the Moon you would have succeeded, but you might have also given up and never realized you could have gone further

Shoot beyond your means

Ngl, within the pharmacology thing because they keep changing shit literally every year there's never an exact treatment. Next year autism could have a level 4 or a 2 1/2 because of symptoms people notice woo-hoo treatment plans will change and then you might not be able to get the same treatment you currently have now because insurance will want you to be diagnosed with a lower level of autism and you'll be shit out of luck.

Or you could be like me who's being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you're 33 and you don't have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.

I mean honestly some days I wish I could fucking die because if I was being treated I would be able to focus on a lot more than I am now and I'd probably be where I want to be financially or at least feel stable in life.

Oh well, I better put on that reward system and bake some cookies and whenever I do a fuckin' good job I should just eat a fuckin' cookie kind like how I used to smoke cigarettes and whenever I did a good job I'd smoke a cigarette.

Come on we try it. It ends up in addiction or fooling ourselves. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Just pretend that if you don't get shit done, you will flunk school, get fired and eventually your family will give up on you and you'll be on the streets.