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I heard that laziness is pleasurable, and executive dysfunction is not.
Laziness is pleasurable???
Laziness has ALWAYS been derided as a character flaw.
Executive disfunction is euphemism treadmill for laziness. There were books 50 years ago on how to self manage behavior.
Executive disfunction is still a character flaw. It's ok to be flawed. We are human. Recognizing flaws and trying to fix ourselves is personal growth.
Your reductionist take on something you clearly don't understand is just wild.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23224-executive-dysfunction
Your link is on the official definition of executive disfunction. The OP used executive disfunction in the common use, "I don't do things I think I should." That's also the definition of laziness.
When people use the common definition of executive disfunction they are euphemism treadmilling laziness.
I was unaware of anyone outside of ASD/ADHD communities regularly using the term.
The OP used executive disfunction as synonymous with lazy. The term executive disfunction has been used in mainstream media for years.
doesn’t sound like laziness to me
But OOP did not say "I don't do things I think I should", they said "I don't do things I want to do". They described the executive dysfunction loop quite well.