how do I know if I've got executive dysfunction or if I'm just lazy?

And how can I explain this to my partner who might just think I'm making excuses?

Hmm.

That's good question.

So it confuses a lot of people executive function and executive dysfunction.

So I like to describe executive function as all the different cognitive or brain capacities

that are needed to achieve a goal to make something happen that's not immediate.

It needs various facets of brain function to do that.

You need to be able to hold information in mind,

need to be able to stay connected,

and you need to have this sort of future perspective and pace something,

put, you know, organize it and manage it and put these pieces together with this endpoint that's down the line.

Problem is that the main issue in the main executive dysfunction in ADHD

is affecting the ability to achieve goals down the line.

It's to do with the future. So that's why people with ADHD are often very down the line. It's to do with the future.

So that's why people with ADHD are often very in the moment.

And that can be great in some ways.

I think it's quite interesting the in the moment thing

because you also sort of forget stuff from the past.

And I think that can be quite interesting. I think that's one of the reasons

why addiction is quite problematic in ADHD because you forget the reason why you've stopped

something. Just forget your two in the moment. So what's saying is that this idea of delaying

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