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What People Talk About When They Talk About ADHD
Executive function! And then some predictable image of a BRAIN showing you that the bit of it that’s behind your forehead is causing a holy moly load of trouble.
No one experiences themselves as a brain.
Here’s the image from the Wikipedia entry about Executive Function:
You don't have to scroll too far down the page to encounter this:
Hypothesized role
The executive system is thought to be heavily involved in handling novel situations outside the domain of some of our ‘automatic’ psychological processes that could be explained by the reproduction of learned schemas or set behaviors. Psychologists Don Norman and Tim Shallice have outlined five types of situations in which routine activation of behavior would not be sufficient for optimal performance:
Those that involve planning or decision-making
Those that involve error correction or troubleshooting
Situations where responses are not well-rehearsed or contain novel sequences of actions
Dangerous or technically difficult situations
