But wow - here's the beginning of the preface for Ruckmick 1938. I'm always taken aback when I read something from so long ago (here ~90 years) lamenting about the same things we're still lamenting about today. That's one reason I love these old books - they are so great for perspective.

They don’t have a deficit of attention; they simply focus it on irrelevant things, even if the cognitively know what they need to achieve their long-term goals. This happens when they’re not motivated by factors like novelty urgency challenge interest and passion (INCUP).

I think there is a lot to unpack: I think sometimes the adhders might be good at planning but really bad of execution, the perception of time is either now or never (or planning too much as they really feel that they can squeeze it): Anna Anzulewicz try to study now time perception aspect I think

I would treat the avoidance of harder task and time blindness (I will have enough time to finish it later) as an separate symptoms

It is also not always about being pleasant in the ADHD hyperfocus, it just really hard to break from a specific behavior/switch tasks doesn’t even have a lot of value for a person at this moment;

There also issue with perceiving/finding objects, if you move/put a jar behind another jar in the fridge, there is a high chance that the person with ADHD will have more problems with finding it than another, more neurotypical person

There’s a hypothesis suggesting problems with dopamine uptake in ADHD are linked to difficulties in assigning value and importance. Essentially, for ADHDers, the most important thing is what they see last, what has a looming deadline or is new, rather than what’s long-term important.

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