I agree that it’s better to frame things in terms of behavior, if you’re talking to someone you’re committed to keeping...
The comment about the useless “work harder, be more virtuous” mindset is exactly right. My default tendency is to...
Yeah, I agree with Ozy on this one. Looking at a personal framing of the issue, I find it a lot more useful to say “I...
Its funny, because I have the opposite observation and personal experience; I respond poorly to the “illness model” and...
I think that really these are two populations:There are people who have executive dysfunction and really genuinely...
Executive function for me feels like an error mindset rather than a bug one.
I want to point out here (to both sides, but mostly to OP) that EF issues are definitely not a synonym for laziness....
You can only work really hard when you’re in a place where you have something worth working at. “It’s your brain”/”you...
Yes this. Thinking of it in terms of executive dysfunction has made me much, much more functional. Beyond enabling me to...
I don’t think “work harder, be more virtuous” has a terrible track record. I think there’s a very common narrative of a...
I think replacing “laziness” with “executive function trouble” (or whatever) is actually a good thing in nearly all...
I get the vibe from Tumblr sometimes that if you’re not failing at anything and everything, you’re NT, and that means...
Just from my own experience, when I used to really buy into the tumblr script on this sorta thing, I ended up seriously...