I'm only ADHD but I get the project paralysis all the time when faced with something big. Recently I've been typing up a few lines of what I want to do covering the big picture then I list out in bullet points the key features or tasks. Once I have that I upload it to chat gpt and ask it to develop an outline with details or instructions for each bullet point.

Sometimes I have to refine my wording to get it to work, but I've finished several projects that sat for months and one for years just by using this method. I've also created a dedicated gpt to become an expert on the one really big project where it was the research that was holding me back, then just asked it questions until I had all the data I needed.

It's not perfect and you still have to do some work, but it's been working for me so I thought I'd share.

[–] ItHertzWhenIP@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, I would break down my tickets into tiny baby steps, to the point it's so utterly ridiculous from the outside looking in that my colleagues and manager would comment on my "work journal" and are concerned about the "way overcommitted wasted effort."

It of course, helps a whole lot despite the amount of additional added hours I would put into that. Each little checkbox is a much needed dopamine trickle to keep me on task, and the whole thing seems far less daunting once I've been able to sit down and break things down into atomic subtasks—checkpoints—that I could stop at and still be able to come back later on without losing track of where I'm at mid-ticket. And not ending up debugging myself round and round in circles as I forget what I already did before.

I didn't use to do that though, nor did most of my systems even exist in any tangible form really. They were the products of my brainstorming and research on how to get around my ADHD and not things that I would've naturally settled on on my own. So, if I'm understanding what (this aspect of) autism is correctly. I'm only ADHD as well, at least on this (and many other so far) aspect.

Edit: reading comprehension failure. Um, I haven't been using AI for the breaking down of. Maybe it's something I could try?

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 1 points 3 hours ago

See I would have trouble breaking it down, hence why I need the AI to help me there. I'm glad you found a system that works for you though.

BTW ADHD isn't an aspect of autism, they can coexist but they are separate.

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