THE LAZY LIE: Is it laziness or ADHD? How to spot the difference

LATE BLOOMERS

Rich & Rox Pink

Self-improvement, Education

5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Is laziness real, or is it one of the biggest lies told about ADHD? In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox tackle the “lazy lie” head-on. They explore why being called lazy never motivates anyone, and why shame only fuels procrastination, anxiety, and self-doubt instead of getting things done.

From homework left to the last minute, uni rooms infested with flies, and dodged coffee duties, they swap hilarious and raw stories that show how “lazy” is almost never the truth. With banter, and brutal honesty, they pull apart the difference between actual laziness (vibing on your phone while someone else makes the coffee) and executive dysfunction: the invisible ADHD struggle that looks like laziness but feels like quicksand.

If you’ve ever called yourself lazy, or been crushed under the weight of that label, this episode is for you.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you think that you are lazy? Have you been called lazy by teachers, parents or someone else?
0:08.5	Today's episode is for you. This is called the lazy lie. Why being shamed by others or shaming ourselves never actually makes us more productive.
0:19.6	This is late bloomers where we are getting our lives together.
0:23.5	Eventually.
0:24.5	I well thought you were lazy when I first met you.
0:28.2	But I don't think that's my fault.
0:30.6	Like how could I not think that you were lazy?
0:34.1	I love that.
0:35.2	We're starting like the anti-shame episode.
0:39.5	Definitely not lazy and you're just straight in. Look, honesty is the best policy. It is. I think. Why did you think I was lazy? Well, look,
0:45.7	when I say when I first met you, that's probably not completely true. When I first met you,
0:51.0	you were, you were great. You were obviously trying to make a good impression
0:54.8	big time within the honeymoon period. And it was when you moved in and it was like, wow,
1:00.8	all of a sudden, everything's really untidy and Rocks never cleans up after ourselves. So like
1:07.0	I would, I was a bit like particular, wasn't I, with how the flat looked and I could do the kitchen.
1:13.9	And within an hour, there would be crumbs everywhere on the surface.
1:17.6	So like small things, but I'm like, what?
1:19.8	Why is she not cleaning up after herself?
1:23.0	So yeah, I just thought you were lazy.
1:24.3	The question I've asked myself, my whole life, well, let's get into it.
1:29.7	Let's do it.
1:31.3	Maybe I am lazy.
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