Bullethell Mothgirl

Does anybody know of any good adhd/autism time management guides written by people with them? I want to try to get better at juggling all the shit I have to do but I feel like most allistics don't understand that 1, I don't like feeling forced to do shit/stuck in a rigid schedule and 2, I work off fun, dopaminurgic tasks and activities that spark my curiosity and pushes me forward. I know generally how to navigate in my day to day but I haven't been able to put these things in a box without feeling paralyzed, intimidated or I just get fuckin distracted. Most of the time I ethereally (or just rapidly) switch between tasks that make my fancy... idk.. any guides or recs would be immensely appreciated.

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vyvansula?@funcitonretrun9/6/2023, 4:28 AM

Something I've found to work for me is listing the things I need to do in a text document as I think of them, or when I sit down to the computer, or w/e. If I do that as a 'throwaway' kind of list, it frees me from the need to try and make/adopt a 'time management solution', since I can never stick with those for long. I combine that with a calendar and alarms. Helps me feel like I have safely handed off responsibility for those things (albeit to future me), so they're not hovering around taking up cognitive space (while not actually getting done).
Have used so many tools over the years - .txt documents, Google Calendar, TODO list apps, Obsidian vault, etc. - and each time I try out a new combination of tools I typically climb to a peak of effectiveness that I then rapidly fall off and can't usually regain. The trick I've found is to accept that this is how I function and not beat myself up over it. And the common thread is, writing things down. Being able to trace stuff back in an external memory store is incredibly useful.
Apologies, this isn't a proper guide, but hopefully it's not unhelpful!