#executive dysfunction for authors

[eight-littlenightmares]

GUYS. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

WRITE. just START WRITING. it’s gonna be super painful for the first few hundred words or so, and your concentration is gonna be super fragile, but after that it should get easier and you should get into the flow of it!!

obviously i can’t say for certain that this’ll work for everybody, but please try it. go sit down, set a goal, and WRITE. for me rn my goal is at least 500 words, but you could edit that number to be higher or lower, or just go on time writing instead.

the more you write, the easier it should get. as an autistic person, i suffer from executive dysfunction, and it is sooo hard to get writing done. you kinda just have to brute force it at first and then it should get easier.

let me know if this was in any way helpful!!

[brotrustmeicanwrite]

i need people to ask me about my story or I'm never writing it

[blackbird-brewster]

Please send me your horny thoughts and prayers as I try to write my first ever foursome. 🫡😭🫠

As if 3somes weren't hard enough to keep track of everyone's body parts, I've decided to throw in a whole extra person.

Worst case, it sucks and I don't post it. Best case, you're all going to have some really delicious smut.

[usernamesarehard1]

Why is it so hard to put my thoughts to paper? I want to write screenplays, and novels, and movie reviews. But I have all these complicated thoughts in my head for them that I just cant seem to actually write down. I hate myself. It makes me feel like a failure. Writing is what I want to do with my life and I can't even do it now.

[sillycourtjester]

I am so mad that the only way i could fight the ADHD to finish my essay was to 1. write in comic sans and 2. playing my boss fight music i made for this specific essay

[fumifooms]

I read 1 fic yesterday and it literally energized me more than my new stimulant adhd med did. Marchil confirmed better than drugs. Crying

[zombolouge]

there are, as best I can tell, two grave advice sins that you can commit when giving advice that will render whatever you're saying useless and probably make people think you're a dick.

"I don't have this problem, and I've never had this problem, but I'm pretty sure this is how you should be solving this problem"

"I had this problem and solved it this way, and that means EVERYONE can solve it this way and it's the One True Solution."

The first means you're uninformed on the realities of the problem and there's a 90% chance whatever is going to fall out of your mouth has already been tried or has already been recommended a billion times. It doesn't matter if you read it online or heard someone else recommend it, unless you're asking the person about the variables in their situation first and really getting into the nitty gritty, you're probably just sounding like a pre-recorded flight safety message. Thank you for telling me how to buckle up and where the exits are, but nobody here is really explaining what I'm supposed to do about the clown with a chainsaw in the fourth row.

The second one is extra annoying because you could have given good, actionable advice if you'd actually thought longer about it than "problem solved, this is the answer to the math test, byeeeee". Motherfucker what we needed were the notes you used to arrive at the answer. Show your work. Because somebody else might be working with completely different variables, and if you hand them "the answer is 2" when they have a different number set, you're just handing them failure. If you hand them the equation, however, then they can apply some of it to their own problem and arrive at their own correct solution. For instance, if acknowledging a negative thought reduces it's effectiveness, the advice isn't necessarily "just accept the thought and move on!" it's examining *why* that acceptance helped. Perhaps because it removed guilt from the equation, meaning you were carrying one less thing while you tried to move forward? Great! That's useful! Someone can go "okay, what about this is making me feel guilty and what can I do to feel less guilty?" and then they have a workable approach.

Even just making the space for the fact that your solution is not the Only Solution can help fix either of these. Expand ur minds. Accept that the myriad of human circumstance will mean that we're all working with a different starting, middle, and end point.

[huxkisser]

me in high school: i’m gonna do so much better in university because i hate structure and authority and i hate being told what i have to study and when. just give me the work and i’ll do it when it works for me and i’ll be much more productive

my psychologist, talking to me about my executive dysfunction now: you need structure. you literally need structure to function. u need to at least plan out when ur going to do things. u need some form of structure

me: fuck… ur right…

[cowboylikeyouu]

when you need to study but you also need to clean your room but you also need to write a new fic chapter but you also want to start working on some flufftober oneshots but you also need to work on your eras tour outfit bc your show is next week and oh you don’t have enough friendship bracelets yet but you also have so much yarn and promised yourself to crochet more but you also kinda want to spend the entire night reading fanfiction but you also have a 1000 unread books on your shelf but you also want to read some comics but there‘s also a ton of new shows you want to watch but you also want to go the movies every single day and push your letterboxd and and and and and and and and then you just spend your entire tay on tumblr and tiktok

[maraschinotopped]

hey guys i think i have a new fixation developing

[some-pers0n]

Snail in my ear is telling me to do weekly updates for my longfic again for the month of June like I did last year (I haven't updated since the beginning of March)

[muzzlemouths]

Ever since I screamed at Xitsen ahem, suggested Xitsen read Sleuth Jesters, I think it's now my responsibility to suggest this story to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

So... Muzzie. Yes, you *should read* it. You won't regret it, my promise :3

Naff's unofficial PR department wishes you a great day! xDD

I WANNA READ IT SO BADDDDD

The ONLY thing preventing me from reading it (among others) is that I'm a horribly slow reader, and that makes SJ's whopping 152,963 wordcount terrifyingly intimidating, so I end up procrastinating starting at all and just feed off the fan content I see of it instead.

But I know - I know it's a story I'll instantly fall in love with if I can just get myself to stop pussyfooting around and dive in head first instead.

[usernamesarehard1]

I have the most insanely detailed and in depth stories in my head and I just want to WRITE THEM. But every time I try to I get too overwhelmed and can't think.

I can image them completely any other time, but as soon as I try to really make anything tangible out of them I get like anxiety brain freeze

I'm just getting so frustrated

[wanderingandfound]

Me, with a stack of [pre-ordered and library] books to read, multiple television shows I'm in the middle of, favorite fic authors I've somewhat abandoned and want to return to, and many podcasts I'm behind on and many more I have yet to start, completely sick and tired of audio input: Well, I guess I can listen to each segment one by one, episode by episode, of the 50-odd Zombies, Run! episodes I've played so far. That way when I finish the couch to 5k program in three weeks I will remember what's happening.

[depresseddepot]

does anyone have any book recommendations for dealing with adhd, autism, and/or depression? There's a lot out there but it's really hard to tell if it has the mental version of "just lose weight" nonsense without having the book in your hands