Do you have problems changing activities?

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Does anyone else have problems switching between the most simple of activities?

Whenever I need, or even when I want to do something it feels impossible to stop doing what I'm already doing. Even if I'm on my phone and want to go play a video game or do something else I enjoy I sometimes won't do it because it involves switching tasks and my brain apparently no likey. lol

It's just this intense feeling of annoyance and reluctance that isn't dependent on what I'm doing/going to do at all. I don't know if it's ADHD or autism or just laziness.

I have a lot of trouble changing activities. It is one of my many executive dysfunction. It is frustrating to know I want to do something and be unable to switch gears. More so when it is something I want to do.

I'm usually quick to get out of this chair to visit the washroom or kitchen at need, but the activity of trying to compose a reply continues. The bigger the change, the more reluctant I am to change, because it can take hours to re-construct the problem in my head. Scott Adams points out that when a manager calls a quick meeting, he often destroys hours of effort for every engineer present.

yes! I find sometimes I need to encourage myself by saying aloud, "change gears, change gears" quirky, eh? It seems to help to verbally recognize that I am undergoing transition mentally and physically at the time I am attempting this act. No idea why. Cheering myself on to accomplish it? I don't know!

Inconsistently.

Times I can switch gears easy, times I couldn't do well...
And times I cannot remain staying into one activity and had to switch gears.

Reason? Unknown.
Lethargy and/or restlessness couldn't even explain it. But irritability might.

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I had trouble getting off my butt to do my walk/run today.

I have trouble "starting things" in general.

I am a Great Procrastinator.

Yeah it makes me both incredibly hard working and incredibly 'lazy'.

For eg right now I should be getting upstairs doing my teeth. Instead I'm on the computer just cos I have been on the computer for the last half hour.

But when I was shelving my books at my last place, I pretty much did it non stop for 3 days.

I'm not sure if I have this problem or not.

Usually when I'm doing a chore I kind of cut corners or rush to get it done, or I'll just stop halfway and say "that'll do for now, maybe I'll do the rest tomorrow" but then it never gets finished. I don't know if it's laziness or forgetfulness.

I don't seem to "see" mess. Like I'll let the couch get messy with magazines, books, pens, coats, scarves, you name it - and not notice how much of a mess I have made until my boyfriend says "look at the state of the couch!" But I have a messy, cluttered mind, so having messy, cluttered surroundings just matches my mind.

Yes, I've long had more difficulty than most people seem to have with what I call "mental gear-shifting overhead."

I get it.

When I want to draw I can't do it right away or when I get a new game I tend to wait and the reason I can describe it is: its just not the right moment or maybe my therapist would call it not functioning atm.

I think it's the same thing. I'm going to go draw.

Yeah, it happens to me at work, too.
I finish doing something and should move on to the next thing but can't - I get stuck just wanting to look over the completed thing one more time. And again, just to be sure. Maybe one more time.
Aargh!
I have to go out and walk around the block to re-boot my head.

This always happens on here...
I click on a thread, thinking "Oh, I don't really have that issue" or "I don't do that" and then, reading the replies, I'm like, "Oh... I guess I do this."
I can relate to most of these replies. I do most of this.
I am continually surprised how much better I think my Executive Function is, than what it actually is. My EF is apparently a case study in Dunning-Kruger, lol...

I procrastinate a lot and it takes a long time for me to start focusing on things that are cognitively demanding, like writing. I thought I might have ADHD but I took an online test that put me below the threshold to be evaluated for it. It may not have been accurate but I'm inclined to believe it because I usually answered no on the questions about hyperactivity. So I don't know if its ADD or just autism. The reason I suspect its ADD is that once I try to start I usually only have problems with things that would require a lot of thought for an NT. I'm a little more absent minded than average but I don't have serious problems with things like cooking. Socializing is the only thing that's cognitively draining for me but not for most NTs.