r/skeptic • u/Budget_Shallan • 25d ago

💩 Misinformation Neuroscientist podcaster with 20+ hours of ADHD content discovers it MIGHT be genetic "but there are too many variables to separate"!!!

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 25d ago

See, that sounds like it's not time blindness you're experiencing, it's executive dysfunction. Like you're trapped in your brain, aware you need to do something, fully conscious of the way you absolutely have to start, but you're trapped in a body that's just like "haha yeah" and doesn't move. Different aspects of ADHD.

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u/MrDownhillRacer 25d ago

Ah, I see. Might be a different symptom all together.

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 24d ago

Yeah, figuring out if I have ADHD has been a whole adventure of "wait, that's not normal? Other people don't struggle with this bullshit? It has a fucking name??"

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u/MrDownhillRacer 24d ago

Yeah, it's hard teasing out what's just "laziness" and what is a genuine disorder. And working out how that ties into things that culpability is also tricky.

Another layer for me is that, while I've been told I have ADHD, I've been doing some reading on CPTSD (it's not in the DSM, but it is in the ICD), and it seems a lot of the symptoms overlap. But rather than feeling like "I might have been misdiagnosed," I am wondering if it'll turn out I have both, because some of my procrastination does seem to stem more from emotional dysregulation (normal for CPTSD), while sometimes, my inability to focus seems to have nothing to do with my emotional state (which I would think would be the case for ADHD).