@thor Not a small number of hobbies but a lot of hobbies which change if I will be able to do them for hours.
I learned to accept that they switch. It happens mostly without warning and I just accept that a new hobbies phase is there. Some never come back and others always will come back again.
RPGs is a hobby that is coming back very often if I play many different systems because it is enough variety but sometimes I need a couple weeks to month pause.
If someone is interested: the ones that always come back at some point are: lockpicking, programming, solving puzzles (jigsaw, Einstein, puzzle boxes, video games like baba is you), video games (Souls-like games and survival crafter like Minecraft especially because I decide when and how I engage the story of them for the most), board games, writing, building stuff (like robots, wood craft, miniatures, models, etc.), magic tricks, Rubik's cubes, RPGs, comics, books and a few more.
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> I call this 'playing advanced prioritization chess'
Absolutely, I love this phrase! For me, it's all about conceptualizing my brain as a precocious child young enough to fall for reverse psychology. Misdirection techniques that work when playing chess with kids that young definitely count : P
(disclaimer: I only use these techniques on kids when I'm teaching them chess, and showing them how they work, so they can learn to use and evade them)
@strypey I call this 'playing advanced prioritization chess'.
One method that's worked for me is to start up a videogame like, say, XCOM 2 - and then leave it on the pause menu. (Main menu doesn't work, it has to be the pause menu.)
This may also be why I have so many hours in some games.
It works just as well if I set myself a housework task as the target for my non-zero day. Then I'll get a blog post written, file a few bugs, and maybe reinstall an OS on an ailing device.
But this only works if I hold myself to the "really does need to be done" criteria. Things like the fediverse and matrix are my kryptonite...
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Some days my ADHD brain will let me do literally *anything* except what I'm supposed to be doing. I work around this using a hack I call Procrasti-work.
First, I set myself one task I must complete that day. Then I give myself permission to put that task aside and work on something else, as long as that something really does need to be done.
Eg If I set myself a blog-writing task, I can be pretty sure I'll do a bunch of housework and cook a decent meal.
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Part of coming to grips with my #ADHD has been accepting that sometimes my brain’s only gonna get that big important task done from 1-5AM the night before it’s due… and that that’s not the end of the world.
This message brought to you by the hundreds of megabytes of PDFs and excel spreadsheets I just put together as part of a diligence process for [redacted cool thing I’ll be able to talk about soon]. I probably do need to go back to my doc for a med adjustment though; switched from Adderall to Vyvanse earlier in the summer and frankly I think it works less well for me. Brains! How do they even work. (Not very well, sometimes).
@craigabbott yeah like today, my main quest was taxes, but at least now that map of unscanned and unsorted documents from ~10 years is gone and all PDFs sorted in the folders.
Not a task that was planned, but it just occurred when I tried to find one paper from 2022 that I needed for the taxes, which I finally found in the online portal of that insurance company. But well the OCR work flow is now also revamped and does also resize to standard paper size.
Tax is then on the list for tomorrow. 😔
Many neurotypical people will tell you that you need to play your cards right to be successful, then get angry when you don't play the exact cards they expect you to. They get mad if you don't adhere to their playing strategies, even if you have been dealt a different hand (or deck) for which their strategies just don't work. And when you tell them about your cards they will say things like "Everyone has a 2 sometimes" or something like that.
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