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How I programme myself to fight my executive dysfuntion and try and do things or:
If youâre like me and have horrible executive functioning skills thanks to stuff like ADHD and mental illness, youâve probably heard of micromanagement and youâve also possibly been told to try and just write basic instructional steps to do things like go shower, make breakfast, do your homework. And youâve possibly tried it all but it just didnât work for you.
Well, this is basically going to be me explaining the method Iâve found / semi created for myself with my counsellor and learning diversity team thatâs been the first thing to actually get me to do things, whether or not itâll do the same for you I canât promise, but give it a shot if you want.
If youâve not had a lot of experience with programming before, that doesnât mean you canât programme yourself. You donât need to learn a new programming language, because the computer youâre programming is you, and you already speak your language.
There are key features however of general programming syntax and methods that is what, for me, makes programming planning useful, and they are as follows:
Speaking to yourself like you would to a computer (or: assume nothing and leave no gaps)
So whilst youâre not speaking a different language, and the computer is yourself, a key part of programming computers is that they donât know anything, and they canât assume anything.
If you want a computer to do something, you canât just tell it to do it, you have to tell it every little step involved in doing it, and this is where the micromanaging super detailed instructions come in.
I find that just thinking that Iâm programming a computer that has 0 clue of anything outside of the instructions (the programming plan) it forces me into actually breaking down everything, further than I do when Iâve just told myself to break down the steps and write them down normally. Part of it is probably that when youâre planning things normally it can feel somewhat embarrassing to write things like âstand upâ âwalk downstairsâ âwalk into kitchenâ âopen fridgeâ âtake water jug out from fridgeâ etc etc just to get some water, but a computer programme doesnât care, a computer programme needs that detail to prevent mistakes.
And especially for executive functioning this is one of the most important things in actually..... doing things, because our brains can be just like the programmed computer, assuming things and filling in gaps between steps may be something that my brain is technically supposed to do but unfortunately it doesnât and it leads to overwhelm, by treating it like a computer programme Iâm removing the need to make assumptions.
Smaller Events / Functions:
These are basically defining different âsmallerâ tasks, you can write them out by themselves and then later, if youâre writing a bigger programming plan, just drop their name in to let yourself know that itâs that task.
It stops the bigger programming plans from getting too long and overwhelming and allows you to take a modular approach and reuse the same mini functions for tasks that are involved in multiple things.
Personally the main things Iâve broken into their own independent events are key things like: Starting to do something and taking a break, and then I link them into the main big event... which speaking of the main big event:
The main big event:
Once youâve got all your smaller tasks, thereâs obviously going to be the actual difficult bigger things, like doing your maths homework. This is where you get to reference all your smaller events, but also have your stuff thatâs specific to what youâre trying to do, stuff that doesnât really need to have a smaller event because itâs only specific to this one thing and nothing else...
âifâ, âand", "but", and "or"
Conjunction junction, whatâs your function?
Ifs, and I guess and but and ors (though I just wanted to reference conjunction junction) are a pretty big part of prgramming in general, but theyâre extra helpful when youâre programming yourself because: Weâre not computers, weâre humans, but even computers sometimes encounter errors, and you need to programme in what to do in case of an error.
Now you canât predict every little thing thatâs going to happen, but if you struggle with knowing what to do if you have a few general If phrases like âIf you get stuckâ or âIf you feel tiredâ and then within those have one or two options (maybe with some more ifs, you can nest as many ifs within eachother as you want, whatever works best for you) for how to proceed.
This part is of course optional, and also possibly not recommended... it depends how you work, whatâs easiest for you, and if just writing you programming plan in plain text works for you or not.
I used scratchblocks to make my aesthetic scratchy programming plan thing, and it helps to visualise it, especially if youâre not already used to programming actual computers... As an example hereâs my getting started on work function:
And hereâs what the actual code looks like (click for the link to the live version):
It takes a bit of getting used to to get around the syntax of it, but scratchblocks automatically updates the preview of the code whilst youâre typing, which is helpful, and the bits that are like :: word #000 are how Iâm definining whether itâs the start (hat) or the end (cap, which I didnt use in this one) and what colour I want it to be (which is of course, optional), a more in depth, but still easy to understand, guide of the syntax is available here: https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Block_Plugin/Syntax but the best way to learn would be to just play around with it yourself, once you get the hang of it itâs somewhat intuitive.
For a larger example of my programming plan scratch stuff, you can view the post I made yesterday that inspired this post with a large plan I made and you can also view the actual code within scratchblocks here
If you have any questions or want advice or whatever idk feel free to hmu I donât bite I swear, hopefully this is comprehensive enough, I kinda only really came up with programming planning a few days ago and only applied it to scratch for the first time last night but it honestly has basically gotten me to actually do things for the first time in my life which is a goddamn miracle
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