Interest Isn’t Enough (When Everything is Interesting)

Many autistic affirming therapists will recognize the concept of the interest based nervous system, coined by Dr. William Dodson. In case you’re not familiar, my favorite speaker on this concept is Megan Anna Neff of Neurodivergent Insights. She has several blogs explaining the concept which focuses on the idea that once engaged ADHDers can do just about anything!

I was thinking about this the other day, thinking about how there are so many things I’m interested in but I still end up stuck and spinning my wheels. I also see this in people I work with often, especially when something like depression comes in to play a confounding role.