Those who “do not procrastinate” are simply not truthful people. Or they are hard-core former procrastinators who are frankly kind of scary if you leave a dish in the sink. And often those kinds of people paid a lot of money to spend three of their vacation days in a hotel ballroom to be yelled at by a rage-a-holic who convinced them that an unwashed dish was a sign of weakness.
Those who have truly never procrastinated likely had a care-giver who either covertly or overtly abused them, as said by the narcissistic weekend retreat leader. No doubt these “git’r done” folk’s neat-nik overlords were also raised by oppressive do-it-now-or-die dishwashers.
If you are an ADHDer, you may use dark humor to get through. (Sometimes this offends people and leaves you chuckling, but alone, isolated, and regretful.)
ADHDers sometimes forget that not everyone wants to go on mental side trips. The above side trips were added when I, the author, began to edit the first draft of this article. The originally brief article was already written, mind you. It was initially going to be an even briefer poem. I was voice-to-text transcribing the brief article from the handwritten text in a notebook with the intent to get it on the digital page, tweak it, and publish it in an hour or so. bada-bing!
(If you are an ADHDer, everything will be done “bada-bing,” and almost nothing is ever done “bada-bing.”)
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