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u/TOGoS 6d ago
This reminds me that I'm supposed to be registering an LLC, but I keep putting it off because I hate forms and paperwork.
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u/Signal_Option_2672 5d ago
Ha! I created an LLC to do consulting and then just let it die a slow and terrible death since I could never bring myself to figure out taxes and tax forms for it, plus you have to do it so often
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u/TomaszA3 5d ago
Damn. You don't have a constant rate tax for having a business over there? It's like a third of minimal wage a month over here.
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u/dyrkasolen 6d ago
Learn about the force and become a Jedi like my father instead of taking a shower
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u/Hot-Category2986 6d ago
Ok, but for real, it's like this. If you don't want to do a thing it does not matter how difficult or important the thing is. Your ADHD mind will dedicate everything it has to any possible distraction, regardless of difficulty.
I got into a habit of chasing the smallest possible distractions so that I fall back to the thing I need to do as quickly as possible. So I do dumb things like getting up to check my 3d printers every 15 minutes, even if the printers are not running, because it's a tiny distraction from the email I should be reading.
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u/Bliitzthefox 6d ago
I procrastinate the thing I'm supposed to be doing with something else I've previously been procrastinating.
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u/someguyyoumightno 6d ago
This ☝️ Like trading one evil for another.
I caught myself talking to someone on the phone I didn't want to, and I had been putting off cleaning. For some reason, I started to clean and was completely good with it. Not sure about the mechanics on this 😅
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u/GeoffreyDaGiraffe 6d ago
Is there a mechanism that explains this? Is it that folding laundry is not novel, but something else is?
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u/FeralGh0ul 6d ago
Folding laundry is easy, repetitive, boring. Not really anything mentally stimulating about it. No stimulation, no dopamine, no motivation.
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u/mizinamo 6d ago
See also the hundreds of "learn kanji with this fun app!" produced by weeaboos procrastinating from learning the language.
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u/ShokaLGBT 6d ago
me when I have to play my game but instead I go eat something or clean around my apartment who’s already ok…. but then I forgot I had to play my game who’s still on but I’ve forgot to play.
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u/dividezero 6d ago
No kidding. I've done this. You feel so accomplished until you realize you haven't even touched the thing you were supposed to do
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u/SwankeyDankey 6d ago
I literally did this and now i sell rocks to hippies for profit.
I sold a woman a fossilized poop pendant for energy healing
Edit:i did look up all the agreed upon powers of the stones beforehand. I didn't go making shit up that wasn't already part of the belief system
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u/Affectionate_Bad_680 5d ago
I used to feel bad for folks who got “swindled” like this.
But these days, if you let yourself be separated from your money that easily, it wasn’t going to do you much good anyway.
Plus, they’re not the brightest bulbs in the socket 🤦♂️
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u/GarryBlockedMe 6d ago
Except when you figure out the perfect business for your interests and experience, so your brain tells you everything in the house needs to be laundered instead
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u/rithmikansur 6d ago
I hate cleaning the bathroom and doing the dishes, so instead I went hiking and made a website to document nearly 300 different species of mushrooms I found. I have a couple hundred more to post, but the hyperfixation ended. So instead of cleaning the bathroom I completely demo’d it and remodeled the whole thing including replacing the subfloor and tile, and building a custom medicine cabinet from an old dresser mirror I got at a yard sale.
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u/maple-moth 6d ago
So funny story. I did this. My business was so fun and cute and lasted a few years before I decided to close it after my second kid was born. 😂
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u/adi_2787 6d ago
Holy shitballs, I opened a business this year on an adhd motivation wave. It's still alive, so I guess it ain't all bad!
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u/HestiaWarren 6d ago
Ok I took my vyvanse and I’m ready to knock out some of the highest priority, most time sensitive things on my to-do list. Hang on, my brain is telling me I gotta cut up this paper into squares for four hours real quick.