ADHD, people with executive function disorder (EFD), or executive dysfunction, often experience time blindness, or an inability to plan for and keep in mind future events that aren’t in the near-term.
They also have difficulty stringing together actions to meet long-term goals. This is not an attention problem in the present tense, but rather a sustained attention problem.When a person’s executive functions fail, he has trouble analyzing, planning, organizing, scheduling, and completing tasks.
People with executive dysfunction commonly lack the ability to handle frustration, start and finish tasks, recall and follow multi-step directions, stay on track, self monitor, and balance tasks (like sports and work demands).
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