How to accomplish IMPORTANT TASK when you have ADHD

\ AY ER NAAN an sl NA Miani Poetry Club Generative Wjorkehop, January 8th, 2025 prompt #7; Write a Livt of inetuctions for-something ordinary. Row 20 accomplish IMPORTANT TASK when you. have ADHD: 1. Cieten to your bose/teacher/$/o/yTP when they announce, to you, the instructions. 2. Nod your head and Listen to the first few words before the pen gate in your mind swings open ae your mental sheep (the same ones you count when trying to sleep) storm out to graze. : 3. Wonder why ite sheep we count and herd, ducks we make sure are in a row, horses whose mouths we don't inspect when they are gifted and try not to beat when they are dead 4, Realize your YP/task master/the big cheese in this particular situation has stopped making the important noises you were supposed to harvest and process and manufacture out of, realize that you, in fact, did net harvest shit, making steps two and three nigh neigh horses nigh impossible 5. J£ it's an enotional/confidence good day, find something to say that expresses the requr est that they repeat themeelyes that doesn't out you as an air-head (if it's a bad day, say, "Got Jt!" proceed to panic, find a way to recover on the back end). 6. Say clever thing from otep 5. 7. jientally strap yourself down with your eyelids peeled back Like in A Clockwork Crange and pay attention for dear Life--if information is otill not neceived, see past Step 5 Paranthetical 8. Crumble received information into an imaginary paper ball to be unfolded Later and carelully file it away. in your menory by shooting it Like a game-winning buzzer beating 3 pointer to win the game into a giant pile of other imaginary cwmpled up data to be sifted through at an unopecified time ‘e 9. JL instwctions are received in written form, atuffp them into a bag, an actual one, Bith the rest of the bag-stuffing to be sorted through Later, at an undisclosed time. Tf it 46 physical, take a picture of it with your phone and lose track of it Like you do with the 750 internet tabs open on your phone's web browser, if it is already digital, screenshot it and do the same. ee 10. Go about your Life with a vague ut very real sense of Looming panic in the back of your skull and pressing againet your vital organs in your chest--JGNORE- 11. Remember that the task is due tomorrow. 712. Spend at Least half of your precious remaining time paralyzed by abject dread and neconsidering your Life, conedder joining the army 13. Frese the big red emergency ON button in your brain, get your productive freak on 14. Feel your ego inflate as you contemplate the not-too-shably final product 15. *Finger guns in the nirror® "ie otill got it.”