Executive Functioning Differences and NeuroDivergent People - My Autistic ADHD Experience
Channel: Lyric Rivera - Neurodivergent Rebel
Date: 2022-12-21

According to understood dot com: executive functioning is a set of mental skills that includes working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. We use these skills every day to learn work and manage daily life. Trouble with executive functioning can make it hard to focus, follow directions, and handle emotions among other things.

Now that we've got that very formal medical definition out of the way, let's humanize this concept for a minute. 

Let's talk about executive functioning. It's like you have a little executive in your head and they are organizing all of the things that you need to do in the day. If your executive is not functioning the way you need it to get things done, it can cause problems in your life

For example, the executive function is what helps control your ability to get into action, and start doing a task, or to stop yourself from impulsively acting on a task. Executive functioning is also the mental skill that is required in order to plan your tasks and activities and for thinking up the ideas in order of which you're going to do things. 

ID: Lyric, a pale skinned nonbinary person with short green, teal, and blue hair with shaved sides and jet black roots is sitting in an RV with dark wood panel walls. They The words "Executive Functioning" floats in front of them in pale teal and green letters.

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It's important that we all understand, that as Autistic People, there is not a unified autistic experience. We all have different opinions and very different experience, and I think it's great to share those things. 

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