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[quote=Anonymous]My 17yo has been struggling with this for years. Systems, reminders, check-ins, nothing works for long. It’s definitely improved with medication, but it’s still an issue. It’s worst with low-dopamine, easy work that hasn’t scratched any itches in her brain. She gets through it almost on autopilot and forgets about it immediately. It’s gone from her brain like it never existed.

Some of it is demand-avoidance: the more we remind her, the more we stress the importance, the more her brain digs in and prevents her from doing it. The closer the final deadline gets, the more she shuts down. Fortunately, with medication she’s now managing to somehow scramble to get things in—at the literal last minute most of the time. Only sheer panic can motivate her!

In middle school in particular, the plethora of assignment types and turn-in methods was a huge issue. Some teachers did everything on Canvas, some used Google Classroom, some paper-only, some a mix. She just didn’t have the executive function to keep it all straight. Now in high school, her teachers almost all use Canvas, and they’ll usually accept a photo of a completed paper assignment. That lets her turn it in from home as soon as she finishes, and she doesn’t have to remember to do it the next day.

One thing that did help, at least for certain periods of time, was to put both the completion and the turn-in on her calendars and to-do lists. That helped separate the two processes in her brain, and gave another little dopamine bump when she checked it off.

But she always has to revamp her systems once or twice a year, because as soon as they become routine it’s easier to ignore them. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that our office supply expenditures and app purchases are really just an ADHD tax. [/quote]

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