If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn’t know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.
The police show up at your door. They tell you they need to search your house. There’s a group of them so there’s no way you would be able to watch all of them while they search your house. You have no idea why they would want to search your house. Would you feel comfortable letting them search your house since you have nothing illegal? Would you trust them?
Better yet, would you be comfortable allowing them access to search your home at any time with or without your knowledge or consent?
Is there a major difference if the police’s searches are only of your digital devices? Do you trust everyone who seeks the job of warrantlessly probing through the private documents of strangers?
If someone has never experienced executive dysfunction, they have never had the experience of wanting to do something desperately while thinking about it every second but still not being able to will themselves to do it. Explaining that this is the experience of executive dysfunction is straightforward enough for anyone who doesn’t experience it to understand.
A huge issue with any explanation is the willingness to understand it. If someone is not even trying to understand what you’re explaining, that doesn’t mean the explanation is bad, it means that person has no respect for you. Someone who does have some respect for you would make a good faith effort to try to understand if it doesn’t make sense to them.
You know how thinking gets exhausting after a while and it’s frustrating because your brain won’t stop even when you’re already tired? People without adhd don’t have this issue because they choose when to have a train of thought and they stop when it gets too hard. We can’t choose.