'I’ve noticed that sustained discipline, structure, an organizational system, a routine, (all super recommendations for ADHDers)… well, that type of persistent responsibility, when there are no breaks, can make my ADHD side sort of rascal-like.'
When I was a kid, nobody could figure out what my dad did with the majority of his time. He seemed to move around the house looking somewhat laboriously engaged, but at the end of the day he often had nothing to show for all that pacing about — and yet somehow appearing as though he desperately needed a nap. My mom, in a tone that left none of her agitation to the imagination, would call this “piddling.
You see, while I soared through my adolescence and college years with unstoppable academic and personal successes, I had no idea that I was paddling twice as hard as were my contemporaries. It wasn’t until I came up against out-of-nowhere impairing anxiety at the onset of parenting that I began to frame myself as my father’s child. My
That cookie is piddling. Piddling means that I design an allotment of time to let my brain go on an irresponsible little vacation, to let the sister off the strict diet, to let the puppy off the leash, and to just be. To be Really. Really. Irresponsible. With time, with resources, with space, with efficiency, with it all.
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