[annie_muss]

The executive function deficit that comes with ADHD means that you don't have as much control over those emotions. The discomfort of the task is overwhelming and so you avoid and procrastinate. The fact that avoiding the task is rooted in emotion isn't exacerbated by ADHD, it is ADHD.

[edrxty]

Really well said. It's really hard to describe to neurotypicals because while they experience avoidant behavior and lack of motivation, doing the dishes doesn't feel like being tasked with penetrating a foot thick tungsten wall using only your teeth. They just think you should be able to do waves hands something involving bootstraps so therefore you're just stupid and lazy.

[reuben364]

At the worst of times, when I had a university assignment I would sit at my desk to do the assignment and physically feel a repulsive force from my work. Like a really strong gust of wind.

And now I have unlocked middle school memories of staying up all night, alternating between lying down from exhaustion to forcing myself to sit and write a few words each round for my English essays that day.

[peddamat]

This so perfectly describes the ADHD university experience. Of course, there are other courses that you could hyperfocus on for days.

[jamiek88]

Yes and it often be a physical response too like my arms will start to have phantom aches when forcing myself to do something my adhd is screaming against.

Weird.

[TeMPOraL]

This. For me it's occasional chest pressure, and constant phantom hunger. It's like my un/subconscious mind decided to go to war with the conscious part, and is using bodily sensations as weapons.