7 Executive Functioning Deficits That Deflate Motivation for Teens with ADHD
Executive dysfunction causes problems with planning, organizing, prioritizing, and sticking to a goal, among other challenges. It's also a major reason behind motivation challenges in tweens and teens with ADHD. Learn about seven important executive function skills, their relationship to motivation, and how to improve each skill.
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Remember when everyone laughed at you after you did your best at something? Nothing is more humiliating than feeling chosen for mockery. Anyone who has experienced that resists everything that might lead to another bout of torture. That reduces our motivation to stick our necks out. If you can grasp that on your insides, you will have begun to get a glimpse into what does and doesn’t motivate us.
Don’t focus on the overt physical classic signs of ADHD. Our brains squirm when are bodies don’t. This is a devilish disorder. Some of us specialize in fooling you into thinking we are paying attention. We learn to compensate and would win Oscars for our performances.