Is inertia executive functioning?

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I am really having trouble with inertia right now. I have to do something super important and it has to be done today and I have been trying to get myself to do it all day since 5am and I can't seem to get started. I just can't get my brain in gear. It's not hard, I just can't do it. I have to pay the credit card bills that are due today. Is this an executive functioning issue where for no reason you can possibly think of, you just can't get started?

Hey skibum, I think it probably is an executive functioning problem but I don't know maybe there is something more to it. I have this all the time, really lately feel like I just have to force myself to do almost anything. It's not always a lack of interest or motivation, because I will think and think and think about stuff I want to do. But when it comes to actually doing it I just feel like I can't put myself into motion.

I know what you mean about paying those bills. I have things like that where I know I have to do it by a certain time and I will think about it all day and finally do it at the last minute. Is there something about it that is frustrating and makes you not want to do it? I have to enter in my mileage for my job each week, and it should be a simple task, but my company's server is so slow it ends up taking forever. So I put it off knowing it is going to be aggravating and then actually, by putting it off until later I can at least avoid the times when the server is busiest. Sometimes there is a good reason why I procrastinate on doing something, but I forget what it is. lol It's kind of like when there's a shirt I don't wear anymore, and I don't remember why I didn't like it unless I try to wear it again.

Yeah, it's really frustrating. It's exactly like you described.

I'm still paying for the gym i haven't been to in approximately two years.

If you think about it, inertia exists on either side of executive function. Inertia is the tendency to either remain motionless or continue extant motion. Executive function is knowing when and how to transition between these two states or to change the direction of said motion.

So I think you are describing stationary inertia and the lack of executive function to change that into directed motile inertia o_o

bills, calling insurance company, etc., are things I really struggle with

For me, hard to avoid traps of perfectionism, and hard to find (?) broad medium course (?) of good enough

Can you pay your credit card bills online? It would make it lots easier for you.

I pay mine online.

Thank you for the responses. It helps to understand more of what it actually means as well. I do pay them online and pretty much have for the past 15 years. Or sometimes I pay them by phone. But it does not matter the method. It's just getting started that is hard. I did manage to get it done though so we won't get any penalties. Thanks again. If anyone else has insight on how this all works, I would love to learn more.

I get in states of Inertia sometimes. It is very difficult, at times, for me to start/initiate things.

Once I get through the barriers of starting something though, things usually go smoothly (though not always).

http://www.dudeimanaspie.com/2011/10/in ... eevil.html

LOL! Thank you. That was great.

High mental inertia is definitely a problem wit executive functioning common to autism, I have it too.

Yes it is

Executive Functioning and the Emerging Adult:

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I deal with this everyday and it's so annoying. The only cure to this is if someone threatens to toss my computer out the window, that will fix me. True story but it was only temporary affect. Just a little humor here.

A lot of people deal with this by getting an assistant (often a NT) to help them. It could be a significant other, a family member, a co-worker, a subordinate, whatever. It's a small task to the other person.

I do this too!! ! ALL OF THE TIME- honestly this is more life-ruining than most anything I've encountered- and I don't have a handle on it at all.
I find trying to set rules (recruiting my autistic rigidity/rule abiding to help) sometimes helps, but I can still reck it- I find my rigidity to rules has died down considerably..... like when I need it most haha, but I usually clear the entire day, isolate in my room or in a coffee shop, drink a metric ton of coffee and staring at my computer screen until I do it- it could be as simple as logging into my bank account- and it will take me about... 30hrs to get it done- BUT it does get done.... it just takes waaaaay longer than I would like.
For some reason the coffee helps. idk y tho!! !
This f**kery drives me nuts. Coffee is helpful though. Not sure how helpful that was- I still struggle with it myself.
I try to automate my payments and things as much as humanly possible: automatic everything.
All withdrawals/deposits savings/investments/sending money EVERYTHING is automated, because when it wasn't I would NEVER get anything done ever.... ever ever ever.
Thank God for technology! & the internet.