Can't believe that for most of my life I thought it was normal to take 1 hour or more to warm up to any basic task hahahaha

Er for all the people asking: "this isnt normal?" - this is called executive dysfunction (task initiation) especially when we're talking about having to work up motivation to do tasks like eat, sleep, go to the toilet etc, but for ADHD, basically anything that bores us

For me a one hour warm up to do basic tasks is often watching YouTube or other videos, playing games etc anything that helps me build up a reserve of "interest/motivation" to do other tasks

(case in point: using my phone in the shower because I can't get started otherwise)

I've done this basically my whole life in order to get things done. I've always known I needed to drive my baseline level of stimulation up to do things without meds and it's one way I've survived this long without missing a deadline (my autistic brain also can't deal with that)