{"id":135346,"date":"2015-09-22T04:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/22\/harmalade-executive-dysfunction-is-so-weird\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T04:12:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T04:12:55","slug":"harmalade-executive-dysfunction-is-so-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/22\/harmalade-executive-dysfunction-is-so-weird\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harmalade.tumblr.com\/post\/126861923108\" target=\"_blank\">harmalade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>executive dysfunction is so weird because it\u2019s like there are all these obstacles in your way, but they\u2019re invisible? so you try to do something and you run into like this invisible wall and you\u2019re like \u201cwhat the hell is this?\u201d and other people are like \u201cnothing\u2019s stopping you, just do it\u201d but how can you explain what\u2019s in your way when even you don\u2019t know? you only find out by feeling it out, it\u2019s not obvious.<\/p>\n<p>every additional unfamiliar, unpracticed, or unknown step is an invisible stumbling block. it\u2019s so hard to make your way through the obstacle course. being super careful means you have no hope of finishing on time, rushing means hurting yourself. either way it takes twice as much energy as it\u2019s supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>sometimes you just spend all your time and effort just trying to figure out what the obstacles are so that someone will believe they\u2019re there. but then they say \u201cif there was a block in front of you, why didn\u2019t you go around it? it doesn\u2019t take that much extra time to go around a block.\u201d but you took all your time trying to figure out it was a block in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>you have to feel the edges of it to figure out it\u2019s not a wall that stretches on forever<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>harmalade: executive dysfunction is so weird because it\u2019s like there are all these obstacles in your way, but they\u2019re invisible? so you try to do something and you run into like this invisible wall and you\u2019re like \u201cwhat the hell is this?\u201d and other people are like \u201cnothing\u2019s stopping you, just do it\u201d but how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/22\/harmalade-executive-dysfunction-is-so-weird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[466,120,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}