ADHD Makes Simple Tasks Impossible

funniest adhd thing is when you're like ugh. doing this simple task would be too hard. guess i'll do a difficult one instead A fun trick with this is that if you're a programmer, it can make you seem like a genius. Like you can go "I wrote a program to automatically sort all incoming reports into the right folders by using OCR and a database of all the section tags" and people are like "wow that will save us a bunch of time!" but you don't tell them that you spent 20 hours doing it because you had 60 reports to sort manually and that would have taken like 15 minutes but your brain just said no

A text meme describes the ADHD tendency to avoid a simple, boring task and instead spend hours building an elaborate solution. The punchline is that this can make a programmer look like a genius, even though the automation took far longer than doing the original task manually. It is used as a relatable reaction to procrastination, executive dysfunction, and overengineering.

• @pokupkabitka / 28910 2023-10-10