#once again using the Public Diary function of tumblr. ah well. im home sick don’t expect me to be interesting

[deanmarywinchester]

in retrospect it’s really easy to see why my adhd got missed until I was an adult and it’s definitely bc my parents put me in sports minimum four days a week from a pretty young age, and the designated activity on non-sport days was “sprint around the neighborhood with neighborhood kids.” task initiation is much easier for me if I’m consistently active, have a time crunch like “be done with homework by soccer practice time or else,” and have an immediate carrot and immediate stick like “if you finish you get to go ride scooters with the neighbors and if you don’t finish your teacher will chew you out in T-minus twelve hours.” the difficulty for me now is getting the incentives to line up like that, not to mention that now exercise Itself is a Task I Need To Initiate (sometimes several tasks!) rather than just letting an adult pack me off to swimming/basketball/soccer/tennis/track/field hockey/cross country where another adult would put me through my paces