I'm relieved to hear someone else say what I was thinking. Very unfortunate that this video is titled such that it appears when searching for help with EFD.

Matt Komaroski no, she’s not. She’s saying that you don’t have to have a disorder to struggle with executive functioning.

Hi everybody ,just wanted to give you my opinion. With menopause your executive functions start to decay and you can actually feel it while it's happening , kind of scary. Anxiety starts to kick in and it does a lot of damage too. It's a cocktail of adhd and hfa. Not fun at all. This is my experience

I've been attempting the same thing and I came to conclusion that I need to find a term that better specifies this than "executive function." I don't have any problem with working memory, being distracted or even being disorganized. I have to gather immense willpower to even perform routine tasks like brushing teeth. I don't know if this falls under the term "depression" and I've been hoping to find people who struggle with something similar.

@@lidu6363 I'm struggling with the exact same thing and I was hoping this would be a good resource... did you end up finding anything else worth mentioning? It's such a struggle to find resources for EFD, especially if you have a severe case of it which it sounds like we both have. It's exhausting wanting to shower or eat or brush my teeth and being physically incapable of just...doing it.

@lidu very similar... accept i do have the disorganized thing... i want to, i can envision it but my brain takes over and i freeze. so i think it's brain issue and depression... maybe me not being able to create my life is what is causing the depression.

@Jenna i did a year course in DBT that helped, but now currently looking for therapist that specialize in ex function because no matter how much therapy i get if i can't get my actual day to day calendar, life building skills, work flow then i'm staying depressed... it's cycle i'm determined to break... i'm focusing on getting support to be able to follow through on "actions" repeatedly to create positive "habits" and by pass the whole thing! i want the "genius" part of all this to flourish and not be controlled by the negative influence this struggle has on my life.

Agreed

I think I have a problem with e.f. and I can tell you that anytime I'm out of my element (with people I don't know well) I am under stress.

Executive dysfunction is a mental disability.

Very very relatable! You're not alone.... your struggle is shared my friend :)

Oppositional Defiant Disorder... Story of my Life... Don't know how old you are but let me give you a tip: Your fight is not with others, it is with yourself... Best of luck to you

She should live with a house full of seriously handicapped Aspies for a month; who can't sleep, can't work, can't stop talking about their special interests, have such severe sensory issues that they can't be in the same room as anyone else, can only achieve one task a day....and so on and so on. That'll shut her up.

Fair enough. I accept I was reacting emotionally, due to anger about my own autism. Did not mean to be too vociferous.

Ellen Jamieson I like you.

Thanks !

Ellen Jamieson I agree. Or people who have bipolar disorder or something like that.

I don't know about Bipolar and Executive Dysfunction; bipolar is primarily classified as a mood disorder, whereas autism is closer to a learning disability/pervasive developmental disorder. I can only speak for myself as someone who has autism. It took me years to learn basic planning and daily organisational skills that most non-autistics take for granted.

Ellen Jamieson It effects people with ADHD and dislexia too.

YES, I am well aware of this Terec. The simple bracket of ''Autism'' covers a variety of disorders, such as ADHD, Tourettes, OCD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Dyspraxia and so on. I am not certain however that people with basic Dyslexia have the same pervasive problems with organising, planning, prioritising and executing tasks as those with actual autism; I do not think that is true. I have an autism diagnosis, and I have mixed in with that sensory processing disorder, the usual problems with executive dysfunction & social impairments, and OCD/high anxiety. I displayed Tourettes-like problems in my teens. My brother, who has the same genes, has Dyslexia. He has none of the other issues that I have. There may be crossovers, but they are not exactly the same. I was originally merely taking issue with the blanket statement that ''everyone has executive dysfunctioning problems'', which is deeply insulting to those who are so seriously impaired in this area so that they cannot have a normal life (possibly never). There needs to be clarity of categories here.

Aspergers/autistic person who can "pass" really well(though for a really whacky NT person, not really that normal haha) here. Watching this video I thought exactly the same as you, the problem with getting non-disabled people to compare small struggles in their lives with disabilities of different kinds is that they could easily jump to saying we should just "get over it". Which is deeply hurtful when for something like executive functioning it already feels like you can't make any excuses because people take it for granted. It's like the studies which showed that short periods of having abled people go through simulations of disabled life can actually be harmful towards disabled people and promote ableism. The very fact of living with something in your day to day life is what makes it so hard for abled people to understand, so until we can simulate for them the experience of living in a society which doesn't accommodate your needs any other such comparisons are unlikely to help anyone disabled.