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Originally Posted by SewingGreenMama

Have you see the video on the you tube Channel "How To ADHD" called "the wall of awful"?
It has been such a help to me and for me. I have walls of awful everywhere. Surrounding almost every task. It's so hard to start and do anything. It's so hard.
I can really understand Early Bird in some ways. The having to start work after having fun, the schedule was thrown off. The automatic assumption is that is will remain off because there is no way to rebuild the regular structure of the day. And once things were derailed by the bike ride (and you didn't foreshadow that school would still take place) plans were already made for the day and you then said that the normal schedule would be in place....but how can that be when the possibility of normalcy was already destroyed. In my mind it would feel like trying trying to squeeze a large triangle shaped schedule into a small round hole that is left of the day (no it doesn't matter that you are only 20 min off it isn't about time so much as routine). I have to go straight from breakfast to school or it doesn't happen. Dishes wait till after lunch. Etc. If there are any appointments in the morning then school doesn't happen that day. Because the whole day was ruined by the morning interruptions and I can't adjust our usual routine, it has to be wholely intact or I can't do any of it.
It will take me weeks to start a task that takes less then ten minutes and makes my life easier. Yup. Weeks. The mental energy it takes to get past "something" causing a wall of awful required to get started is exhausting.
Sorry if this is rambling and confusing.

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---------- Post added at 05:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:56 AM ----------

Wall of awful video: https://youtu.be/Uo08uS904Rg

I rewatch it every couple of months. It really helps me.

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Ok. I have seem that before. And it makes some sence. But in my own head it always come downs to sucking it up and doing the thing. I can make the situation harder ( adding bricks carefully putting them in) or you sick it up and start climbing. I guessl I don't understand the ' emotial work' that they talk about. I clearly don't understand that temmin other cases. I don't have anything in my head really between walloweong and sucking it up and getting the thing done.

Oh laundry is horrable I hate it - I can make it worse my alovliding it or wallow thinking about it and not of Theo's just compund it untill i suck it up and do the thing.

When I was in 1st to 3rd grade I rember flopping all around because spelling was impocibly hard. But by 5 grade I had gotten it in my head that I didnt do any good and only made it worse and that I needed to just get it done so I could do something I wanted to do.


Is there anyway I can help early bird get to the just do it?

If I could teach my children one thing it would be grit - the just do it. And it is the thing that I am utterly failing to teach her.

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