Procrastination & Aspergers

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05 Mar 2013, 1:45 pm

i dont normaly procastinate. i am always well organised and im very tidy-minded.

my husband is adhd, and hes the worst procastinater i have ever known. his mind is completely scattered and sticks to no routine at all.

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05 Mar 2013, 7:25 pm

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I procrastinate because of anxiety and laziness.

Me too.....sometimes I really do put off starting things because I'm paralysed with anxiety about failing at it or not doing it right .......................but then again sometimes I'm just plain old lazy and don't want to do X thing I have to get done.

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05 Mar 2013, 9:55 pm

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I'm exactly like you. It's not an exaggeration to say that it's one of the things that are ruining my life. One thing I recognize in my procrastination is that I tend to see tasks as being far more difficult than they actually are and require so much determination to start doing them. After managing to get a task done, I often realize it was actually very easy and wish I hadn't stressed that much about it. So I tend to use so much mental energy about little things that are not meant to be hard. I think this comes from my perfectionism and pessimism. Pretty much making things difficult for myself. If I can relax just a little more and be a bit optimistic, I'm sure things will look so much easier to start and get done. That's how I try to see logically my procrastination, or one of the ways to see it. I'm currently trying to change this habit.

Everything you say here is the same as me. I like analyzing it as well since i am an analyzer. but at the end of the day i want to absolutely stop it. and thats where i am having trouble. i have been trying to change this habit for decades. when does it end? if ever..

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05 Mar 2013, 10:20 pm

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Thats why Im here on WP.

Should be doing a zillion other things.

^ this.
I procrastinate because things seem overwhelming. I only want to do and think about things that I enjoy doing. I don't want to leave my comfort zone and I put off doing things that are unpleasant to me. But then I feel stressed knowing that those things are lurking and waiting to be done.

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05 Mar 2013, 10:24 pm

Guilty as charged.

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05 Mar 2013, 10:27 pm

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Yes procrastination is the problem in ASS. As the Intense World Theory describe autistic people have hyper-amygdala, hyper-neocortex and other brain structures.
From my own experience if you feel you'vfe alot of anxiety and procrastinate you can really become much clearder and happier/smarter if you have techniques to overcome this.

I suggest you to watch this video as a start. I still have some problems but not many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD440CY2Vs0

Thank you, it was a very good presentation. I have already read much about the mechanics of compulsive avoidance, so what i am most interested in is concrete tangible practices, particularly physical practices. I have tried those various types of planning techniques he mentioned in the video in the past, but it never really had an effect. The one thing he mentioned that i haven't done is: "if you close your eyes and think about what you need to do, then your brain is tricked into thinking that you've done it before, and it becomes so much easier to get things done". I will definitely try this and see what happens.

I have also done buddhist meditations, calligraphy, breathing techniques, etc, in the past, to calm and focus the monkey mind, as they say. But i find in my case, it didn't necessarily have a lasting effect once i was outside the episode of meditation. Basically the meditation practice became yet another goal in itself. It was a good goal indeed, but something that took time away from what i needed to do originally, which was still left unfinished. What i am thinking is i need to make my work itself become the meditation itself.

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05 Mar 2013, 11:39 pm

ADD - definitely one of the big reasons for my procrastination. So many great ideas of things to do - where to start? I need to clone myself. Maybe I'll dabble at this 'n that, and do some research about the other thing. Then, hey look - a squirrel! Maybe I should do a Google search on squirrels. And hey, while I'm in Wikipedia, I should find out whatever happened to that 80s punk band I used to like. Hmm, wonder if I can buy their music on Amazon? While I'm on Amazon...

Avoiding people/situations I don't like is another biggie...

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06 Mar 2013, 2:54 am

shaleman wrote:

So like me. I'm easily distracted by things around me, and even more so by my own thoughts. That squirrel -> Wikipedia -> while on Wikipedia etc, is me to a T.
In my case I doubt it's due to anxiety. I'm unemployed so the majority of my procrastination is when I do things I want to do. Say I wish to post on WP. I start writing the post, but before I know it, I'm listening to Gangnam style for the umpteenth time on youtube, and checking my email and following link in my email and....
I'm certainly not anxious about writing posts or posting, yet they take long time to write because a) I need time to formulate my response, and b) I do so many things between starting the post and actually posting it.
Sometimes I'm shocked to see how much time has gone and how little I have actually done during that time. I am so inefficient.

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12 Jun 2013, 4:21 am

Just realised I also tend to procrastinate.

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12 Jun 2013, 9:06 am

I think my name should be procrastinator,

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12 Jun 2013, 4:24 pm

I also tend to procrastinate. I tend to put off doing certain projects until the last moment, or not do them at all. It is usually due to either stress, laziness, or both.

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12 Jun 2013, 4:26 pm

I will procrastinate and then spend the whole time I should have been doing the thing, worrying about the repercussions of not doing it. Needless to say, it is a pretty nonconstructive use of my time.

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24 Dec 2014, 9:58 am

I procrastinate a lot. Today is my day off and I wanted to start working on my paper. I've been working towards this day since last Saturday, but six hours or more have gone by with still only one or two pages opened and read. One document made (just gave it a name) and nothing written. I've been sitting at my desk doing a lot of things, but none of them paper related. I'm not diagnosed yet, but I will make a appointment next month. Last thing I did after I felt all my energy drain from my brain at the last attempt at reading a text book was to look up if there was a connection between AS and procrastination... well, here I am. It's "confirmed".

It really messes up my life. I've read AS' have difficulties organizing their lives. I agree and procrastination isn't the only thing to blame.

edit: okay, maybe not so much. The topic is interesting and a subtopic of my passion and profession. I like to write, I can be a workaholic and I'm not depressed or even down.

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24 Dec 2014, 10:09 am

I thought that was common in ADHD as well. I procrastinate terribly. If I know I have about a month to complete something, I will always leave it to the very last minute. People make me feel like there's no excuse to procrastinate when you have so much time to do it in and you don't have many other responsibilities. But I really can't help it. Saying ''tomorrow never comes'' sometimes helps me to not procrastinate so much.

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24 Dec 2014, 10:24 am

Anxiety -> Procrastination

Frustration by any means -> Procrastination
Impatience -> Procrastination
Meltdown -> Procrastination afterwards
Mental exhaustion/Stress -> Procrastination
Huge wave of discomfort to task -> Procrastination
Too easy then too hard -> Procrastination
Being feeling like stuck -> Procrastination big time

I don't know but that's how it is in my case.
But yes, Anxiety -> Procrastination

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24 Dec 2014, 10:34 am

I'm the last-minute type as well. Doesn't matter if it's a month or six months, it's always that last minute. What helps for me is decluttering my life: minimalism, and I only focus on the essentials: sleeping enough, eating healthy, good work and life balance and only gather information about topics that are essential to my career, studies and well being.

I've spent years (15+) figuring out who I am and what makes me different. The line between ADHD, ASS and being gifted is very thin: a lot of common characteristics. I know I'm smart, probably gifted, I'm very creative and I can be very driven and focused for long periods of time, but I still feel I've accomplished nothing in life (I'm 35 ('14). I know that's not entirely true, but it feels that way.

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