#executive function explained

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What is Executive Functioning?

Neurodivergent Insights

[clever-and-unique-name]

A simplified version of the thing I feel like goes on in my brain.

Blank version under the readmore if you want to be a bit silly+introspective with your own "settings"

[painted-bees]

sorry I haven't been posting much

I have been weirdly...overstimulated and over excited about a bunch of things, and it has brought my presence of mind to approximately 0.

[taz-writes]

here's a hot take for today

the narrative function of sex is the same as the narrative function of fight scenes is the same as the narrative function of songs in a musical

no i will not explain

[sodrippy]

graaaaa was having such a good day n then my meds wore off

[oreoambitions]

The more you chase the muse, the faster she runs.

Believe me when I tell you that the muse is not the problem here. I have 6,000 ideas and I would LOVE to tell someone about them. Better yet, I'd love to actually finish and post some of them. The moment I sit down to write, it's easy. It is the sitting down to write that is the problem.

[narcopathyfiles]

you know. i am diagnosed with adhd but sometimes i wonder where the adhd starts and where the pds begin

[sysig]

I think I finally figured out why I like him so much

[sodacowboy]

y’all please look at this ad youtube gave me

[mikeru-funzies]

would have rebloghed this if I could find it but

(rant in the tags)

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic and zoning out when the social battery runs out…

Neurodivergent_lou

[ingravinoveritas]

Was a watching Georgia’s stories answering questions and there was one about lights on or off. I don’t really know what that means. Can anyone explain please?

Hi, Anon! So, for those who didn't see Georgia's Insta stories yesterday, here is a screenshot of the story in question:

As to what this means, I can offer my interpretation, but with one caveat, which is that I'm not entirely sure how the question-asker meant it, or how Georgia interpreted it. But from my experience, "lights on or off?" typically refers to sexual preferences. (In other words, do you prefer to have sex with the lights on or the lights off.) One example that comes to mind is the character Faith in a season 3 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

From this context, we can see that the question is referring to something sexual (along with "kinks or vanilla?" which refers to whether one enjoys rougher/kinkier sex or more traditional "vanilla" sex).

Now, again...whether this was actually what Georgia meant, I mean...who knows. Could she have meant that she just likes to sit in a room with the lights off instead of on? Sure, why not. But going by the popular vernacular (and where my mind went), this would be what most people would think of when they see that phrase. So, the conclusion we could arrive at would be that Georgia prefers to have sex with David with the lights off. Interpret that however you will...

(Also, it bears mentioning that this doesn't say anything about whether David likes to have sex with the lights on or off, but that's a whole other discussion for another day...)

I hope this helps you out, Anon. Thanks for writing in! x

[crystaltoa]

And now for something completely different.

This is the ADHD Teapot. I made it in a ceramics class a few years ago. I use it to explain executive dysfunction to people who haven’t come across the term before (and those who think of ADHD mostly as Hyperactive Eight Year Old Boy Syndrome).

So, most people’s brains are like a regular shaped teapot with a single spout. Let’s say that your time, energy, focus etc is the liquid you have in the teapot. Your executive function is the spout, that directs the tea into the specific cup you want to fill-aka the task that you’re meant to be doing. Spills happen occasionally, but generally most of the tea goes in the right cup.

If you have executive dysfunction, (a symptom of ADHD, trauma, autism, schizophrenia etc.) you have multiple spouts going in different directions. You can try pointing one of them at your chosen cup and you will probably get some liquid in there, perhaps you will even fill it right up (finish the task). But meanwhile, tea is also pouring out of several other places and not going where you want it. If you have another container nearby, perhaps some of it will end up in there. But quite a lot of it is going to end up on the floor and accomplish nothing.

And at the end of the day you’ll have filled one or two cups ( or sometimes not even one) compared to the five or six that somebody with the same sized teapot (but only one spout) has filled, and everyone wonders why you’re so bad at getting tea poured, and why you make such a mess in the process.

One day I’d like to spend more time learning pottery and create a really technically good fucked up little adhd teapot. But that’s a long way off since i currently live in the outback and the nearest pottery workshop is some 400km away. But I figure that for now, it might be a useful or interesting metaphor to somebody even in its rough draft form.

This post is the cup I filled instead of cleaning my house btw.

[smile-files]

my number one skill: not doing the things my dad tells me to do

[lamellas]

had a drs appointment was like "im having a lot of difficulty organizing and initiating tasks and its distressing me" and hes reccomending to me dumb adhd self help books im gonna scream

[opossum-by-night]

Learning about the PDA profile of autism lately, and let's just say, oh no lmao