Published on 12, July, 2020
I procrastinate about everything. Why do I do this?
- At work it takes me around 3 hours to actually do something. I distract myself with anything but work.
- I struggle to do simple tasks like post a letter. - I’ve had a box of rubbish in the boot of my car for almost 2 years now.
Any tips?
Writing lists sometimes helps, sometimes doesn’t. Read lots of books and researched loads but not been useful.
Is this an autistic trait or does it happen to many people?
It’s an interesting one and I’ve never really thought about it nor experienced it - I know that from before my diagnosis that people with autism that I knew of in my last supermarket job were simply labelled as lazy and needed army style discipline to make them do stuff, given the kind of conversations that I overheard, the general attitude being that they needed to be bullied for thier own good, given also that many supermarket management were ex-army - it probably comes from the myth and misconception that autism is caused from poor parental discipline in childhood and that the only way to manage autism in adulthood is by means of ultra strict army style discipline, where workplaces don’t have the time nor inclination to engage in “hand-holding”