Executive dysfunction or laziness?

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Unless I have something right in front of me that needs to be done RIGHT NOW RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT OTHERWISE SOMEONE GETS PISSED OFF, I tend to procrastinate, dawdle, and oftentimes just not do anything. Partly for this reason, I believe I may have inattentive ADD.

I worry about this too. I have a part time job, where I only do 3 days a week, 6 hours a day, no more. I put in down to my state of mind, but then I think is it my state of mind or is it just undefined laziness?

I need to do laundry so bad and I've been putting off doing it for ages. I probably won't be able to make myself do it until there are almost no clean clothes left that fit me.

you sound exactly like me, sinking or swimming? swimming or sinking?
the truth is, there is really no "solution", because we don't have a "problem"
this is in fact our true life tendency, so we must learn to live smoothly with it

Sorry for the late reply, I've been very busy NOT studying in the last few days

The thing is, I've been suspecting I might have ADD (lacking the "H") for quite a while, or it could just be that lacking focus is the most prominent of my several milder issues (well, misophonia isn't mild but I'm learning to manage it), but when I contacted a psychiatrist about it a couple of years back he told me I was simply "too smart" to have any problems, and that labels are of no use at all.

I went through the same thing when I first started college. In fact I flunked half of my classes. Since then, I had to approach college differently. I took fewer classes at a time--the fewer the better. I had a specific time and place set aside for studying. Usually it was a library because it was quiet, calm, no distractions. I took breaks frequently while studying.

The problem never really went away (procrastinating, not focusing, stressing out) but I improved my GPA. I graduated with a 3.0 GPA.

Stress is another thing that leads to procrastination. When I am overwhelmed, I focus on fixing the anxiety instead of solving problems. That was my main problem with college course work. It stressed me out so I avoided it. Finding ways to deal with stress helped. So did allowing myself to procrastinate a little bit, just not letting it get out of hand. That took some of the pressure off.

Then he was incompetent. No one is too smart to have problems. In fact, many psychiatric conditions are more common in people with gifted-level IQs.