It took me ages to realise this. People with ADHD are always portrayed as lazy but they don’t struggle with hard work, they struggle with boring work. Before I knew I had ADHD I always found I was getting in trouble for not finishing boring work so I always used to prioritise tasks by how much fun they were and start with the most boring. I just ended up getting nothing done.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (51 children)

Then they also get mad when you find an easier way to accomplish the same thing in a fraction of the time or even automating it.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (7 children)

This reminds me of a punishment homework thing I was given in my youth, I had to write out something a bunch of times, which was a shit punishment to begin with and only happened once in like, grade 3 or something. Maybe even grade 1 when we were learning to write, idk. Maybe it wasn't a punishment (it felt like one).

Instead of writing the letter "i" at the start of every line like I was supposed to, I just put a long line down the page to be that letter on every line.

The only part of this that I remember to this day is that I got it back with that line circled in red and the word "lazy!" Written next to it, with points off of the assignment for it.

That's literally the only thing I recall about it, that finding an "easy" way to write the same letter across multiple lines was lazy, therefore I'm lazy and worthless. I don't even remember if I passed or failed it, because that was less important to my young mind than being called lazy for simply trying to optimize my working time.

I dunno, but at this point I kind feel like that teacher was a bit of an asshole.

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You gotta try to make a perfectly spaced dashed line down the page, as fast as you can. It's a bit of a challenge and get all the I's out of the way. Then the teacher can't say boo.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I basically don't write anything anymore. So no matter how "lazy" it might be, a dashed line like you suggest is a skill issue that I couldn't master at age.... 7?

I still haven't because I don't put pen to paper often, if at all. If I need to write 100 lines of the same thing, that's what copy/paste is for.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will say though, I've found putting pencil/pen to paper and brain dumping to be rather therapeutic at times! In your secret notebook you can even trash that teacher that tried to dissuade you from writing. :D

(Got this idea from The Artist's Way book. Lol)

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, for me, it's not that I don't write because I can't, or that I don't want to; I just work with/on/around computers/devices so much that I usually find paper to be inconvenient.

Getting a thing signed by e-signature vs having to print, sign, and mail/deliver a document to someone is just a lot easier for me.

I absolutely can write, and I sometimes find putting pen to paper to be therapeutic, but ultimately I tend to use digital forms of record keeping and note taking, much more than physical copies.

What I would consider is a writing tablet where I can quickly scribble notes into, similar to writing on paper, that then get transcribed into text by OCR or something.... I don't have the money for that.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah for productive purposes I totally get you. I haaaate paper ending up on my desk. Especially because it always seems to be things in that weird limbo of "Can I throw this away or do I need to keep it for some reason?" and it just starts piling up everywhere.

I run Paperless NGX on my server now so I can just scan, automatically sort, and shred a majority of mail now lol.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I should do this too. By and large there's no reason to keep paper around anymore.

What do you do for backups?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Heya sorry for the delay. :)

Sooo I run my PaperlessNGX service on my home server, on which the storage drives are in a mirror configuration. But RAID is not a backup! So they're periodically uploaded to an offsite / cloud service I pay for called iDrive.

When you specify the storage location though, I'm sure you could use something like Borg Backup or any other solution, if you wanted. :)

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