“I understood, at last, that ADHD can make things like tidying a messy room feel like you’re going up against an abstract monster. Our brains find it very hard to look at a shapeless, scary problem and break it down into manageable chunks.”
Imagine this: You’ve never seen a Rubik’s Cube before and, frankly, you have no prior experience working with puzzles of any kind. Yet you’ve been tasked with completing the Rubik’s Cube with no help. Oh, and you have to solve it in the next 30 minutes.. It’s a baffling, insurmountable task with no real beginning or end. After all, a room has different areas, different furniture, and lots of different ‘stuff’ strewn all around in a giant mess.
My mind wandered because I was unable to work out where to begin tidying. Something else would always catch my attention. I’d hear plenty of complaints from my parents —Today, I’m the adult with four children. At 39, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Like most people with a feel like battling an abstract monster. Our brains find it very hard to look at a shapeless, scary problem and break it down into manageable chunks.When I ask my boys to clean their shared room, I know what to expect from the smallest. While I don’t have all the answers, I did eventually learn this process for breaking down all kinds of abstract monsters:Take two minutes to think about the different facets of the abstract thing. Write those as subheadings, also in their own boxes.
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