Are you lazy?

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It depends on your definition of 'lazy'. I don't think I am, but my mom insists I am.

Absolutely agree. I don't know whether its AS or ADD or a combination of the two, but sometimes - frequently - I know exactly what I want to accomplish, but my mental gears get stuck spinning and spinning and getting nowhere. I can stand and stim for hours, trying to force my brain to move forward and get started, but the proper synapses just won't connect. I can engage in some pointless menial task, but the work I want to do just won't come together. To anyone observing from outside that probably appears to be laziness, but I'm exerting a lot of mental energy, even if its not amounting to anything.

It frustrates me endlessly that I can spend hours a day composing pedantic posts here, when I have an unfinished work of fiction that my brain simply has a will of its own about. When the muse engages, it pours out feverishly, then weeks go by and I can't force myself to add a word. Dammit!

On the other hand, I've engaged in near-starvation diets on several occasions that lasted for several months at a time, so having 'willpower' is not the problem.

You've just described my life with an accuracy that is quite eerie.

This is a source of a lot of my self esteem issues. I realized at one point this was why I kept myself in low level, physically oriented jobs and worked hard. I had to prove myself worthy somehow.

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I feel that with me, it is more executive dysfunction.
I really try not to be lazy...I feel bad when i space out on something for longer than I intend...I never spend all day in bed or in front of the TV...I only do that kind of thing when I really have to reset after an overwhelming experience...
Also there are certain things that are really kinda hard for me that are easy for other people..I could spend several hours on certain chores that take some people seemingly no time. It takes me much longer and I expend more energy for minimal results. If I am lazy, part of it has to do with frustration. I am not good at multi-tasking and so lots of tedius daily chores slip through my fingers. My mind is very cluttered..my movements are very cluttered...I go in circles..get sidetracked..etc...constantly..

If it were just laziness I could let things go and not feel bad about it, but actually be somewhat effective once I got off my arse..instead of the way I regularly waste a whole bunch of energy running around in circles.

excuses escuses...

Sometimes it's hard for me to start things or continue them until I finish, but this is more to do with procrastination/losing concentration/tiredness.
Lazy is a choice. I can decide one day to have a day where I sleep in, watch TV and cruise the internet all day (though surfing the internet is mentally draining for me too) and that's what I would call being lazy.
So no, it's not a part of AS.

I think I am very like this...I can be very busy mentally but so tired/lazy physically...sometimes I think it might be something like fatigue but might just be me being a lazy git.

It's very hard to explain why you just can't do something. The total task is overwhelming.The key I think is to break things down into smaller steps but doing that is hard for me too. I try to concentrate and then I start feeling weak and sleepy.

I'm often acuseed of being lazy by my parents. I think it's a combination of interna and learned helplesness with not hearing or understanding the request to do or not do something. I remember my secound grade teacher never explained how to do projects and just let us figure it out. I remember one time we had to cut out pictures of animals and stick them to another peice of paper. When mine were flat as a board she told me I was supposed to bend the "tap" back and make them stand up. Why didn't she tell me that BEFORE I had actualy started? Another time we were given a worksheet and had to cut out certian pictures if the answer was a certian number and glue them to a picture of an anthropromorphic preying manthis. I got all the answers right but the teacher insisted I was lazy because I did not put the socks on the manthis' feet, the newspaper in his claws or the chair under his bum. Why couldn't she had said we were supposed to do that before we actualy started? I was always considered lazy by her.

I'm like this....even in higher art just now whilst everyone gets on with things I need to ask what I need to do step by step...

I dont really feel like Im lazy. I start things and I either get sidetracked and end up doing something completely different or I cant concentrate or focus and I feel like I keep going in circles. Right now I dont have a job so I start almost every morning with the gym and for the most part surf the web all day or play computer games or watch movies. Im going to start school in a few months for massage therapy so I will see if I can focus on that.

Well now....

I do have a great capacity for procrastination BUT when I get going I run on rocket fuel.

I think it is more of an Executive Function issue than sloth.

I'm like Willard. I know exactly what books I want to finish and some other things but just can't get my self started.

Yes. I just need to try harder so I'm not.

Mine too.
I get accused of being lazy, but I know I'm not because of the effort I put into doing what I do.

I voted yes, though I would have preferred to vote that I am executive dysfunctional, but that was not an option.
It may be laziness sometimes though. It can be hard to tell when it is what. But whether it is the one thing or the other, I need to work with it. None of it can be used as an excuse, as I see it ( but maybe an explanation).