Does anyone feel like because they are so disorganized with their executive dysfunction that they get lost without structure? I went to a lot of middle schools and I remember high school, and even with all the different middle schools i went to and then high school, their was a type of routine, then went to a few colleges and then the college years there was no routine, and not having structure is not good for people with executive function issues. Also, beyond. It's like, without structure, people with executive function issues tend to fall apart? Do you miss having some kind of routine and find having to do things and make things happen difficult?

Yes, I'm craving routine. Unfortunately I can't impose it upon myself because it doesn't feel real. My therapist doesn't understand... For me, I've come to the conclusion that I have to find a different environment, maybe different job or slightly different career. something that will give me that routine.

I find I do better with structure than without.

I find structure stifling.

After 4 years of the relative freedom of college, and more years after that spent unemployed than employed... I can't go back.... ?

I do find it stifling too, BUT I need it. Give me just a structureless day and I do nothing. Imagine what a structureless year might feel like.
Ooh, I did say I was going to bed wasn't I?...

I find structure stifling.

After 4 years of the relative freedom of college, and more years after that spent unemployed than employed... I can't go back.... ?

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I do find it stifling too, BUT I need it. Give me just a structureless day and I do nothing. Imagine what a structureless year might feel like.

Try three :o :D

Yeah, I've had several structureless years. I try to find structure - just enough to give me some momentum - and it's great. a bit stifling, but sitting around and getting nothing constructive done isn't that great either.

Yes, I'm craving routine. Unfortunately I can't impose it upon myself because it doesn't feel real. My therapist doesn't understand... For me, I've come to the conclusion that I have to find a different environment, maybe different job or slightly different career. something that will give me that routine.
This is the same exact thing that i am struggling with, the fact that even though i need a routine i cant seem to get myself to follow one cause I feel like it doesnt mean anything to me. I switched my college and major because of this. My parents dont understand what I mean when I try to explain this to them, and I actually haven't tried explaining to my psych yet.

Does anyone feel like because they are so disorganized with their executive dysfunction that they get lost without structure? I went to a lot of middle schools and I remember high school, and even with all the different middle schools i went to and then high school, their was a type of routine, then went to a few colleges and then the college years there was no routine, and not having structure is not good for people with executive function issues. Also, beyond. It's like, without structure, people with executive function issues tend to fall apart? Do you miss having some kind of routine and find having to do things and make things happen difficult?
Very much.
I excelled in high school where there was a lot of structure and floundered in college and beyond.

I did poorly in school in high school and all the other years, I just meant that in terms of life, it was easier with structure. I had such exciting experiences in my middle school years and I just miss them, things get complicated without some type of structure.

i need to have a structure around me to compensate the lack of internal one. i feel absolutely lost and helpless without it. going thru a divorce now made me realize just how much i was relying on the structure we built over the years. i'm like a lost kid in the woods in a stormy night :(. i have to pull myself together and rebuild a new structure before my life falls apart even more...and it's so damn hard to do it alone. /sigh