Stuck, stuck, stuck - Lemmy.World

Is ADHD different between men and women? Because I relate to 4/5 of these, but I see that it’s posted in ADHD women.
Everything from ADHD and autism to strokes and heart attacks can present differently between the sexes, sometimes unrecognizably so. Not all members of the same sex with the same condition even experience the same symptoms.

Insofar as men and women have slightly different psychologies and societal pressures.

Clinically, probably not, though. I'm not a doctor, though, just some asshole on the internet.

Hormones do have an effect as well.
It does present differently, partly because of societal pressure but also partly because of hormonal setup. That’s the reason why it was thought for a long time that ADHD and Autism was less prevalent in girls. Luckily, this perspective has changed which led to a lot of late diagnoses for women.
How do I unlock the stuck cleaning everything in sight? Asking for a friend
Yeah I also feel I’m missing this plugin

See but the thing is nothing ever actually gets clean, so it’s a very pointless stuck.

You see something to clean up and start to do it, but on the way you find something else and gets distracted, and before you know it you have 16 things in hand and no idea what you intended to do with any of them. And very little has actually been accomplished.

Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)

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If you keep it up, the joint does end up being cleaner, you gotta admit

Maybe not uniformly…

I’ve found 2 methods:

  • Invite someone over. This one though isn’t so much actually cleaning things so much as shoving things into closets and anywhere else that’s out of sight in a panic.
  • Have something else you’re supposed to be doing (an assignment that’s due, your taxes, or something else that’s urgent). That’ll be the time your brain decides you cannot look at these dirty kitchen cabinets any longer and they must be washed right. this. minute. Or so a friend tells me.
  • Pick 5 feet of space to clean. Admire your work. Look around and realize everything next to it is now messy by comparison. Repeat until you’re too tired to do more, and still end up feeling agitated because there are still some things that could look better.
    My ADHD doesn’t let me do nothing. Gotta do something, so much to do, so little time. Sorry, I’m off to my workshop, got a long list of furniture to build. Bye.