I do things little and often, the above don't work for me
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People will really attribute fucking ANYTHING to adhd.
This is a common, normal ass life experience. Everyone on the face of the earth procrastinates with things like this and "choosing a smaller version of the task" is a common technique used by millions without ADHD
So yes you're right in general, but also ADHD specifically fucks with executive function, meaning it makes it much harder to actually put the brain into doing shit mode.
Doing something much smaller, e.g. only committing to 5 minutes of cleaning as opposed to cleaning an entire room, makes it much easier to actually start doing a thing. Half the time I end up carried by momentum past my initial commitment, so it really can be a lifesaver.
It's not the overwhelm that's being attributed to ADHD. It's the anxiety, shame, task paralysis, whatever else that's stopping you from taking a first step that's attributed to executive dysfunction that's part of ADHD. The technique is used by millions without ADHD because things that work with hard-mode brains work just as well with normal-mode brains.
But then it's not a "psychology hack for ADHD". It's just a normal productivity tip. Some with ADHD will find it useful, others won't, and some NT people will find it useful, others won't. Maybe on average it's more beneficial for those with ADHD, but as I wouldn't guess so. I don't have any data/research supporting either direction though.
Frankly I just have a distaste for the whimsicalness applied to ADHD in online discourse. We don't need "psychology hacks" or to describe ourselves as having "hard mode brains". It's a disorder. Cancer patients do not have "hard mode bodies". And the people with more severe ADHD in my experience tend to not resonate with a lot of these terms, it's generally only people with low level ADHD or just want to pin their dysfunction on something else who resonate with this terminology.
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