mayven (@maya.computer)

The squirrel and the magnet People with ADHD often have a really tough time switching from one task to another. In my experience, this takes two forms: The squirrel The magnet In Squirrel Mode™, your brain is like a squirrel running across the road. It zigs and zags from one topic to another, and has many things bouncing around. Focusing on anything long enough to make significant progress is extremely hard. When you go to shift from one task to another—because you’ve finished what you were doing, or because you get interrupted—you revert back into squirrel behavior. https://adhdftw.com/the-squirrel-and-the-magnet/