ADHD and work
4 Jun 2026 17:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claudebIt took me a long time to accept I probably have ADHD (autism was easier, go figure). For decades prior, I simply thought of myself as lazy and scatterbrained. And you know what? Had to cope somehow anyway. Learned to double- and triple-check that yes, the stove is off. Yes, the door is locked. Yes, the keys are in my pocket. Learned to fight my own brain when this pesky body simply wouldn't bend down to grab that piece of litter from the floor. Gave up my last shreds of mental comfort to do all of the above for two people, because guess what.
I don't know about others. Just saying.
Speaking of which: wish I could spend all day being creature with my online friends, pampered by sci-fi robots. And never mind that's likely not possible with any amount of high tech1. Doesn't it sound creepy?
All I ever accomplished in life was by gritting my teeth and scraping my hands. Call it a tragedy. Call me broken. I literally never saw anything get done in any other way. What am I supposed to do? Pat myself on the head? Life is just behind the corner in clown shoes and boxing gloves. Ha ha.
Corollary: if you can't or won't do the thing for any reason, someone else will have to, or it won't get done. Blame, guilt, judgement, cost: these are details. In other words: you deserve help and support, but someone has to provide it.
Automation is an euphemism for shifting work around while obscuring the trail.
1) No, really: there's growing consensus that tasks like housekeeping and caring for the elderly are too complex, varied and delicate to automate, unless your robot is no longer a robot, but a person. In other words... a personal assistant. One might ask why so many people have to toil for a billionaire instead of being available to help their less fortunate neighbors. The real sci-fi here is imagining a society organized to make that possible.
I don't know about others. Just saying.
Speaking of which: wish I could spend all day being creature with my online friends, pampered by sci-fi robots. And never mind that's likely not possible with any amount of high tech1. Doesn't it sound creepy?
All I ever accomplished in life was by gritting my teeth and scraping my hands. Call it a tragedy. Call me broken. I literally never saw anything get done in any other way. What am I supposed to do? Pat myself on the head? Life is just behind the corner in clown shoes and boxing gloves. Ha ha.
Corollary: if you can't or won't do the thing for any reason, someone else will have to, or it won't get done. Blame, guilt, judgement, cost: these are details. In other words: you deserve help and support, but someone has to provide it.
Automation is an euphemism for shifting work around while obscuring the trail.
1) No, really: there's growing consensus that tasks like housekeeping and caring for the elderly are too complex, varied and delicate to automate, unless your robot is no longer a robot, but a person. In other words... a personal assistant. One might ask why so many people have to toil for a billionaire instead of being available to help their less fortunate neighbors. The real sci-fi here is imagining a society organized to make that possible.
