>>1500381>Everything I try doing looks so daunting and impossibleI have the same problem, and I know the solution: Don't make a plan. Don't think about the future at all. Don't try to be efficient. Perform the obvious next tiny step, accepting that it will be for nothing.
Sometimes I want to learn about a subject, but it's too daunting so I never do anything. Then I remember I can download a book without actually reading it. Then a month later I think about it again, but now I already have that book. I can open it and look at the contents. I can read the first paragraph of chapter 6 and forget about it again.
I do this with hundreds of things. It's just how my autistic/adhd brain works. I download a program but don't install it. Or I install it but never use it. I bookmark a page. I open an envelope from the government but not read its contents. Later I read it but it turned out to be irrelevant. Eventually things do add up.
If you tell people you work like this, they say:
>hah, that's not how you get anything done!>stop being lazy, be disciplined!>make a plan, put in the hoursI've tried that for 20 years but it just doesn't result in any progress. It just wastes energy trying to force myself.
All the progress I have made is by doing tiny things that take 1 minute when I feel like it.
(And then the occasional 12 hour bursts when I get into a thing.)
tl;dr give up trying to be normal, listen to your A(utistic)DHD brain
