[annie_muss]

"Just not getting round to it" is what my ADHD often feels like. Let's say I have to mail a package at the post office. I've got to write the address, pack it all up and then take it to the post office. At 9am in the morning I genuinely feel like I'm on the cusp of doing it. I glance at my watch "Oh, it's midday, better each lunch". No to worry, I'll get the package done right after lunch. 4pm rolls around and I realize that I might miss the closing time of the post of office so I rush to tape it up, write the address and hurry down there. I send it just in time. At any time of the day you could have asked me "Are you going to send that package now?" and I would honestly say "Yes, right away!" but somehow it doesn't happen. On one level I know myself well enough to have seen this play out hundreds of times, but I still think this time will be different. It still feels like I'm just about to send that package.

This happened on a much larger scale when I was in university. I had 18 months for my dissertation. Each week that went by I planned to write a small chunk of it, just to get going. In the end I wrote the entire thing a week before the deadline with my professor literally sitting next to me making me do it.

> I suspect you will be less likely to feel that inability to get around to do the tasks that you know to be important to do it if you fail in a way that life itself, the universe, hurts you for the failure, as opposed to your boss saying "you're fired for showing up late".

This is true up to a point. What ADHD people need is consequences ASAP. Your boss checking in on you every hour and providing constant pressure is much more effective than a meeting at the end of the month where your boss blows his top and fires you because you've done very little.