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Depicted in the image is Sisyphus pushing his legendary boulder up a hill, written in the boulder are the words, “The fucking dishes and the fucking laundry.”

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Straight up though I recently learned a really weird way of editing pictures for creative distortion (it involves Audacity (the sound editor)) and I straight up forgot to do both before work.

Yesterday and today.

Good news is I learned a lot on how editing those pictures works. Bad news is tonight’s dinner was cereal eaten out of a mug with a fork.

  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Just do one thing at a time. You’re not cleaning a room, you’re putting this one object where it belongs.

    Many tiny tasks are less daunting than one large task, and our brains like completing many small tasks.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      31·
      1 year ago

      You are describing how to overcome aversion to large or complex tasks, which is great if you can stay focused long enough to implement it.

      The last D in ADHD is the part where it is a disorder and cannot be solved by approaching the same thing with a different view. The hyperfocus and inattention makes breaking things into smaller parts even harder to complete a large task because there are even more opportunities for distraction.

      • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Well ADHD isn’t one thing to everyone who has it. It’s a whole set of symptoms and everyone who has it has each of those things to a variable degree. For some people with ADHD doing tasks right away can be helpful. Other people need lists, other people need a reminder system. Coping mechanisms don’t work universally. What’s important is that you experiment and try them out until you find something that helps

        Edit: and to answer your original question. I let myself get distracted. The dishes will just be half done the next time I see them. And oh look I already did the countertops too, great

      • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure where you got the idea that approaching things from a different viewpoint isn’t an effective coping mechanism for ADHD, but you’re mistaken.