Laziness vs ADHD

I'm going to explain the difference between laziness and ADHD.

Laziness: averse or disinclined to work, activity,or exertion.
Taken from Dictionary.com

ADHD:
I'm not going to write a definition for this so much as I'm going to write what happens with me between starting a project and finishing it.

First, I'd like to point out that my projects (drawing, knitting, vlogging, etc) do not have a deadline. I do them on my own and at my own will.
This is what happens in those cases:

Let's pick on my drawings, because each project has a slightly different process. I will come up with an idea for a drawing, get excited and start to draw. If the drawing takes longer than an hour, which most do, I will start to get distracted and lose focus. This is even more so if the drawing is frustrating in any way, which they usually are.

I will at least have the basic drawing finished. Then I will put it aside, either because I need a break or because I no longer have time and I set it aside for later.

Later, I know I have a drawing I want to finish, I get it out, and find myself unable to stay focused on the task at hand. So usually I give up and put it away to work on at another time.

Now, if someone asked for the drawing and asks me to finish it, I will have more motivation to do so than if I'm working from self motivation.

So, its not laziness, its lack of focus. I already beat myself up for not finishing things, I don't need help.

On a final note, in the case of being overwhelmed (which is often the case with drawings, videos, and playing the piano) one of two things will happen.

Let's pick on the task of cleaning/organizing, which is very often overwhelming to me. I see the task in front of me and I will have no idea where to start or what to do. I'm not exactly sure why this is. This is often why I will sometimes pick something up, and end up putting it back down pretty much where it started.

Anyway, one of two things will happen. Either I will not start the task at all due to being so overwhelmed that I just simply give up, or it will take me ten times longer than the average person. Or longer, depending on my distractions. If its the case of cleaning, and I find something of interest (i.e. old photo album) I'll often forget that I was cleaning in the first place.

It does suck to be me....

This is not to say that I am never lazy, because sometimes I am. When I lay my books on my floor instead of on my bookshelf, its because I'm lazy. Etc. Etc. But when it comes to things that I do (or don't do, rather), laziness may not be the case.