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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Aside from getting treatment, what’s helped me:

    • know that you’re incapable of forming habits. You have to choose to do the thing every time.
    • Trick yourself into hyperfixation if you can. It’s a superpower, if you can aim it in a useful direction. Find something gratifying or satisfying about the task to focus on. Sometimes watching the todo list get smaller or the inbox get cleared out does it for me.
    • This one’s hard to describe, but sometimes you have to realize that the hyperfixation easy-mode motivation isn’t coming and you’ll have to draw motivation from somewhere else inside yourself. Sometimes just getting over the initial jump of starting a task makes the rest of it flow naturally.
    • Break big problems into little problems.
    • Simplify your life as much as possible. You only have so many executive function tokens every day, don’t waste them.
    • have a todo list. Don’t make it complicated. If possible, just do the thing immediately instead of putting it on the list.
    • Get enough sleep. This is not optional.
    • Exercise, specifically some kind of cardio. 30 minutes above about 120bpm, 3 times per week. There are studies, it makes a big difference in a million ways.
    • Give yourself grace. You’re playing on hard mode, don’t compare yourself to neurotypical people.

    Edit: also it’s not laziness, not really. Lazy people are comfortable with it.


  • Eh, I try to keep this username separate from my real name. It’s not too hard though, you just need ‘@media print {‘. Set display none on stuff like the navbar and footer, and you also need to think about page breaks and such, there are guides.

    Browser dev tools can simulate print styles, and you can preview with the regular print preview. To get consistency across browsers you probably want to set a definite width, so the sizing stays the same.