Katie McManus has procrastinated her whole life but still produces quality work because much of it happens mentally while she delays. She says neurotypicals mistake ADHD procrastination for laziness, when it's actually a different way of working.
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My whole life I've been a procrastinator. There was not one essay that I wrote in high school or in college that I did before the Night before is due. I've also procrastinated throughout my entire professional career when I worked for other people and working for myself. That doesn't mean I wasn't providing really top tier value to neurotypical people. They can't imagine procrastinating to the last minute. For them, the anxiety just would not be healthy for them. Like they need to chip away at a big project little by little as they go to be able to do it well. What they don't understand about people with ADHD is that even though we're procrastinating, writing the paper for four weeks and we're going to do it the night before, it doesn't mean we're not working on it. But the work that we do in procrastinating is in our heads.