Laurel

“if your brain can’t wander off, it can’t come back with something unexpected. If you’re farming and planting corn, you’re gonna get corn. If you’re off foraging, or even just wandering off through the woods, there might be berries, or mushrooms,

“if your brain can’t wander off, it can’t come back with something unexpected. If you’re farming and planting corn, you’re gonna get corn. If you’re off foraging, or even just wandering off through the woods, there might be berries, or mushrooms, or… Fairies, why not?!

…you can’t have metaphorical shower thoughts if you don’t have metaphorical showers.”

I learned that ancient Greek has two different words for time: Kairos and Kronos. Kronos is where we get the word chronological and it refers to specific amounts of time like hours days, year… kairos is about an opportune time, about the conditions being right. an example of Kronos time is I go shopping on Monday afternoon. An example of kairos time is I go shopping when I run out of bananas.

Time horizons—the point at which events are close enough to begin to feel real—tend to be much shorter for those with ADHD. For many of us, projects, tasks, and events exist either “now” or “not now”—and anything “not now” can feel as if it doesn’t exist at all.”

Play has 3 parts: setup, the play itself and cleanup. The same is true for pretty much everything, from making dinner to holding a meeting.… Right? I didn’t know that either! Yeah, we have to get there, get our materials in order, notes ready, attend the meeting, then capture the follow up tasks, update people and process what we learned.

But those of us with ADHD often forget about the set up and clean up part and only account for how long it’ll take to do the thing. When it comes to driving somewhere, for example, we might leave ourselves 15 minutes because that how long the map app says it will take. We don’t account for the time it takes to get to the car, get gas if necessary, find parking… or account at all for if something goes wrong.