#adhd rest

A rest day left blank tends to fill itself in anyway. Not with rest. With scrolling, with a load of laundry you “might as well do since you’re up,” with the low hum of half-worrying about Monday. Nothing on the page doesn’t mean nothing happens. It means something else gets to decide. The first two posts in this series covered the why: rest isn’t earned, and the guilt that turns a rest day into…

Saturday morning, and the plan said rest. By eleven you’ve already run two loads of laundry, answered the four texts you’d been avoiding all week, and reorganized a kitchen drawer nobody was waiting on. The rest day happened. You just weren’t in it. That’s not a discipline problem. It’s ADHD rest guilt doing exactly what it’s designed to do — filling a day that had nothing decided on it with…