I posted in the Law bowl about where people work when they struggle working from home. Someone commented that it was a discipline issue and it piqued my curiosity —

How do you distinguish between your ADHD and a lack of discipline? My thought was if it was a lack of discipline, I wouldn’t be able to do work anywhere, but I can, so it seems weird to me that it would just be a lack of discipline. Curious to hear others’ thoughts about identifying the line between ADHD and discipline.

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I heard someone say the other day that the difference between laziness and executive dysfunction is *wanting* to get something done. If you’re lazy, you don’t care if the thing happens. If it’s executive dysfunction, you want to do the thing, you need to do it, you beat yourself up because you didn’t get it done.

Obviously that’s a bit reductionist, but I think there’s some truth there that’s applicable to your question. I don’t think you can really draw a line when it’s just that your brain works differently. Being easily distracted or having executive dysfunction is not a lack of discipline, just like it’s also not laziness.

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I agree with this. Although, it’s difficult because I’m at a point now where I’m so tired of *wanting* to be able to do work from home, but not being able to, that I’ve almost become apathetic about it. Maybe it’s one of those things where a line can’t clearly be drawn because the the *want* and lack of caring are so intertwined at this point

I have no idea. But in my experience, nothing works for very long. The last few days I’ve been cleaning the house and doing laundry while I try to think things through. That’s been okay but I tend to forget to write things down as I go and then forget them. And now everything is clean.

For me the only constant is a mostly good morning. Followed by three hours of pulling teeth to get anything done. Then a resurgence around 230

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