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Hey Pandas, What Basic Task Do You Find Difficult To Do?
An example would be folding laundry into a neat pile or remembering people's names. There are so many examples, I want to see what yours is.
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Speaking to other people, whether it be in person or in an online meeting. I like to text people instead, because it gives me more time to process what I’m going to say, if that makes any sense. Sometimes I even script conversation starters and what I might say next.
Picking up the phone and call someone (other than family). I prefer messages, Mail etc. Just no phone call.
I hate speaking on the phone too. I worked in call centres for over 15 years. Not the best career choice.
Putting the F*****g fitted sheet on the f*****g bed. Most difficult thing ever.
I solved this problem by not using fitted sheets anymore. Just use regular sheets both under and over me.
All of them. Life with untreated ADHD is fun ☺️
45 years of that too... Crossing fingers that the next appointment will be the one when the doctor will prescribe the medication 🤞
Math was never my specialty. It's always been a bit challenging for me.
Same here! I’m not sure what it is, I watched dozens of YouTube videos in hopes of understanding one of the hardest units in my Grade 11 math class. I ended up passing the class with a 65% 🤣 I’m glad I don’t have to use all of that complicated c**p anymore.
Basically any task that doesn't have a deadline. If you don't give me a hard timeframe, I'm probably not going to do it. All tasks are left until the last minute and done in a state of total panic. Executive dysfunction is real, y'all!
Getting up in the morning before 10; I just want to stay in bed, especially in colder weather. Corollary: going to bed at night. I want to watch another episode, or read another chapter. Night owl here, just in case you haven't guessed. Thank goodness I am now retired, so I can organise (nearly) everything around MY timeframe. After 60+ years of getting up early for school, uni, work etc I still feel tired!
Hurrrgh I feel this one so hard. Every weekend/holiday my sleep schedule resets to 3am-11am, I’ve spent my whole life so far trying to wrangle it to 11pm-7am but it’s hopeless. 24 years to go ‘til retirement, if they haven’t gotten rid of it by then. :p
Drinking water without spilling it down my shirt!
Also talking loudly, i talk quietly because everything sounds loud to me. As result people dont hear what i say most of the time :/
Try speaking slower, with harder consonants. I have elderly relatives and this helps, but isn't a perfect answer ofc.
Talking to my parents about serious topics
Getting out of bed.
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Not zoning out in the middle of a task, be it writing an essay, drawing, cooking, eating or whatever, i end up staring into the distance while daydreaming. Madd does that to you i guess
Find what you are interested in. Zoning out means you find it boring. Also, I have never heard those pronouns before. Do they mean you are a fairy, and if so, does that mean you only date people with wings? Or what? Apologies for my ignorance.
Cutting a straight perpendicular vertical line. It doesn't matter what the substance - cheese, wood, bread, corned beef - it never goes at 90 degrees in any direction.
Staying calm and polite around people. I'm ASD (high functioning), but a lot of the time I feel on the edge of a meltdown because (a) someone like my boss is giving me too many simultaneous tasks, (b) he won't stop asking me how far I am, (c) at least he knows about it and tries to control his urge to badger me, but often he fails to do so (d) my partner is super disparaging about ASD people like my kid and I have to nuke her periodically which makes me feel s**t (she doesn't take it seriously and thinks I'm self-diagnosed which I'm NOT!!! I got a f*****g letter from a psychiatrist ffs) (e) my ex bothering me about money when she doesn't understand how hard it is to keep a job with ASD because people get pissed off with you being weird all the time and melting down (f) being anxious because I do not know if I am going to meltdown today and embarrass myself by being a "Crybaby" or whatever heteronormative gender role they expect from me because I appear/display as a regular heteronormative man. Ex...f*****g...sausting.
Sympathy. So many people don't realise that time taken to write reports is inevitably subtracted from the time available to actually do the work. Maybe try reporting as you finish a task, before the boss can ask? Might persuade them to let you self-manage - a bit, anyway ...
paying attention and focusing lol
Hand washing pots and pans. Just let them sit in the sink way too long - soaking away. Only takes a few minutes to do them so...???
We avoid doing tasks that are boring or unpleasant, so yeah, normal.
Driving. I can operate a car alright, both standard and automatic, but I have issues driving in traffic, despite several driving courses and practice. It was never a problem where I live, as it a city where driving is not practical most of the time, but I am about to move to the countryside, and frankly I am a bit terrified.
Well, folks out in the country side might be a bit nicer and more patient. So you don't need to be stressed out as much!
Okay, prepare for a list that makes me seem incredibly mentally handicapped.
1: DIVISION. What the heck is a number going into a number and why aren't decimals a thing!?!?!?!?
2:LAUNDRY FOLDING. I believe that no one has never struggled with this.
3: Ordering things from drive-thrus. Ordering the food from inside is fine, but for some reason I can't handle a faceless, disembodied voice that I don't know asking me if I want fries with that. I can't handle drive-thrus. AT ALL.
4:Saying things using normal sayings and normal analogies. THe amount of times I mentally reffered to the pyramids as "inanimate Bill Cyphers" is painful, and the cassette beasts referenced augggghhhhhhhh
5: Getting references. Do I have to explain?
I also struggle with scenarios with comprehending what people are saying if I can't see them. I'm starting to think it might be a partial deafness thing. I think I might be lip-reading more than I realise.
Driving. Here in Japan the law is really harsh, and I’m super scared and stressed every time I drive. Besides, I somehow got driving license without actually knowing to park, and parking is the worst task now.
Getting out of bed in the morning. I'm fine in the afternoon. Haha. I worked the overnight shift for the last six years of my career before retiring.
I once thought a lady in one of my classes was either ill or stoned. In fact, she had worked the night shift at a hospital for over twenty years (by choice) and lived her life, as she put it, "upside down." Attending my class was the first time in several years she had to be functional during an entire day shift. She managed to get through the whole five day course and pass successfully. It was interesting hearing how she managed her life while being so out of sync with most people.
Folding that goddamn fitted sheet >:(
Eating normally :l
Opening creme egg tinfoil without ripping it >:l
Swallowing pills. I just can't do it no matter how much I try :'(
Only cleaning my room! I HATE cleaning my room, but I do it. I'm very meticulous in cleaning my kitchen, living room, bathroom, laundry room and even the garage....but I live in an older dusty house and have ceiling fans & the AC running constantly (I live in Florida) so all the dust & sand packs onto EVERYTHING like every week! UGH! It takes me 2-3 days to clean my rather small room, but when I do....I clean it ALL.....even down to scrubbing the baseboards and ugly terrazzo floor on my hands and knees. So, yeah....it is worth it in the end. (But I still HATE it!) :)
Sorry to hear yeah I hate it as well, Africa here. Always mud and bugs.
Talk and write at the same time. As a teacher, I make a ridiculous number of errors in front of students. They love to point out my mistakes.
Fellow teacher who also spells things incorrectly on the blackboard while speaking here. As an English teacher it's embarrasing, but I'm always trying to encourage my students to embrace mistakes so I guess I should too.
Going to bed.
Seems easy enough, but with so little time for myself during the day due to work and no break from life afterwards (Meals, chores, pet care), going to bed seems to take longer and longer every night. It has quickly become the only time I have to myself to take a breather and just be.. goodbye sleep!
Housework in general. Arthritis and depression don't help, though I have never been enthusiastic.
Doing the laundry. Especially folding my brother's stinky underwear because he's 'too young' to fold his own laundry.
If it's still stinky after washing, it needs either washing properly or replacing.
Existing in a consistently functional way that benefits my mental and physical health. [depression].
I can confront someone easily, but the second someone raises their voice or snaps back, I can't breathe or do anything. I feel frozen and I cry. So that's hard to do, argument-wise. But the weird part is, I get into arguments easily, and still do this.
Brushing my teeth. I hate how it feels, I especially hate how disgusting rinsing/spitting afterwards feels, and I don’t know how to time it properly: I can’t wake up early enough to do it half an hour after breakfast as the dentist recommends and if I do it before breakfast I end up with minty oatmeal porridge taste and sticky teeth the rest of the morning.
Me too! Or the flavor of toothpastes are WAY too strong and halfway through I gag or have trouble spitting it out because it's so strong.
Every single task I struggle to do. Like I will even struggle doing something simple like talking to people, getting out of bed, drinking water, putting stuff away, eating and more. I think it's probably a mix of ADAH, depression and anxiety causing this. Every day is so fun.
Keeping the kitchen clean. It feels like this massive job that I just don't have the energy for.
Eating. Just looking at food is disgusting to me. I don’t even have an eating disorder and I would LOVE to eat way more than I do, but depression simply makes me forget to eat and it’s a struggle.
Like completely normal people who can inhale popcorn but can't swallow a pill.
Like completely normal people who can inhale popcorn but can't swallow a pill.
