I have a few minor yet strong mental quirks, and I'm curious if there's a term for these patterns or if anyone else has something similar. THREAD:
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Example 2 - conversations at parties. I'm better at this if I'm a bit drunk, but typically I want a goal of conversation explicitly defined at parties. I'll often respond to opening small talk with "why are we talking" or "what are you doing here" or "what do you want?"
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Example 3 - meetings. Any time I have a meeting with a project, I literally cannot function unless the goal is defined. If the goal is brainstorming, I can do that - but if it isn't defined, then I cannot brainstorm, 100% of my mental effort is going into figuring out the goal.
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These needs in me don't affect my life too much, but they are *extremely strong*; as in I just stop being able to process what's happening and get extremely confused if I don't understand what's going on or why I'm doing a thing. I literally cannot make myself go take a walk rn.
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Maybe your reason could be some as sim6as "I want to take a picture of the rain". Could you make up an excuse good enough to convince yourself? Or get a fitness tracker, your reason to get out is always "I want more steps"
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My guess would be that the tracker (alone) won't work, but doing a round of pokestops in pokemon go for example might, even if she doesn't care for pokemon at all, because it sets a clear goal definition from which she can derive a clear path to take?
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This sounds like some variation on an executive dysfunction, since you can't just decide to do and then do. I can relate to it in some ways due to my ADHD, but details are quite different.
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