@autistics I'm continuing to read Russell ⁨⁨#Barkley⁩⁩'s "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" (2nd ed., 2022). His analysis continues to be marred by persistent failure to make two crucial distinctions:

(1) Between the effect of true deficits in #ExecutiveFunctions (impulsiveness, deficient short-term memory, etc.) vs. the effect of neurodivergent attentional focus that prevents certain topics from even entering consciousness with enough salience to engage executive functions in the first place;

(2) Between truly autonomous self-control that realizes the person's inner values vs. spurious self-control that amounts to internalized social coercion along the lines of the Freudian superego or Marxian false consciousness.

Given Barkley's prominence in the field of #ADHD research, I'm starting to suspect that these aren't just problems with his thinking in particular, but with the accepted theoretical framework throughout the field as a whole.

@autistics Since the end of the last off week of my 7-on-7-off work schedule, I've been reflecting on the responses to my theory that the essence of autism lies in the ABSENCE or INACTIVATION of the #EnvironmentalYoke, a hypothesized complex neurological structure that neurotypicals use to engage with the physical and social environment. I think there may have been some misunderstanding of what I meant.

Now that I'm off again, I've continued with reading Russell #Barkley's "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" (2nd ed., 2022). I'm currently in Chapter 9, "Executive Functions". His relentless neuronormativity continues to grate on my sensibilities — and his application of it to the concept of #ExecutiveFunctions leads me to suspect that theorizing about #ADHD, as well as autism, could benefit from introduction of the concept of the environmental yoke. Essentially, it seems to me that Barkley is conflating the very general, domain-independent concept of executive functions with the very specific perceptual and attentional biases built into the environmental yoke — and is compounding his error by assuming that those specific biases must necessarily render neurotypical executive function and engagement with the environment superior to their non-neurotypical counterparts.

https://zeroes.ca/@dedicto/115457107590672323

I have to compartmentalize. I have to make things black and white. I have to reduce arguments down to the ultimate question.

I have to do all of these things because my brain is a chaotic tangle of interconnections and overlapping thoughts.

In order to sort, I need to first simplify.

#ADHD #ExecutiveFunctions #DisabledInHigherEd #DisabledInSTEM

Just a little visualization method that helps me when my ADHD brain is feeling overwhelmed and I don't know how to sort through the million tasks I should be accomplishing.

Will it help you? Maybe but maybe not.

Are there better methods out there? Very likely.

https://tinyurl.com/y3mmkhcc

#ADHD #ExecutiveFunctions #ExecutiveFunctioning

I veto all April Fool's jokes. My ADHD brain acts like an April Fool's joke half of the time.

And no, I am not going to remember that it is April 1st after the first prank. I can NEVER remember what day it is. I was debating what year it was a few days ago...

#ADHD #ExecutiveFunctions

Me only checking email during certain times of the day is absolutely an ADHD hack. I need those big chunks of uninterrupted time to get into my rhythm and focus, and email disrupts that. It's too easy to go down a rabbit hole and I already struggle to sense time. I will not be glued to email.

#ADHD #ExecutiveFunctions #ExecutiveFunctioning

When I lose a thought to ADHD, where does it go? Are certain types of thoughts lost forever? Does my brain have a set threshold where it can recover say 25% of lost thoughts? Does my brain do any type of sorting in terms of the significance of a thought before it loses some thoughts but not others? If my brain sorts before losing thoughts, how effective is this sorting?

Things I wonder about my own brain...

#ADHD #ExecutiveFunctions #Memory

Asking for a meeting and giving absolutely zero context about the agenda or even the meeting topic...People still do this? Why?

As a disabled person who struggles to organize herself, I promise I won't be very well-organized when I am flying by the seat of my pants.

#ExecutiveFunctions #ADHD