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Neurodivergent 1w
Does anyone else have a really hard time making decisions? Like I’m trying to figure out if I should have oatmeal or a sandwich for breakfast and I feel like I’m about to go crazy
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Anonymous 1w

i do 😭i get the worst decision paralysis and take ages to make decisions sometimes lol

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Anonymous 1w

YES it’s so bad

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Anonymous 1w

One trick I use that actually works is flipping a coin whenever I’m torn between two unimportant things and doing the thing the coin landed on. The important part is to not second-guess the coin, only flip once, and to NEVER do the opposite thing afterwards. Even if I realize I wanted the other option more post-flip, I still choose the coin’s option, otherwise I’ll end up second-guessing again and wasting even more time on the unimportant decision

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Anonymous 1w

decision paralysis so bad, i’ll starve before i make a decision

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Anonymous 1w

i have someone else randomly choose 1 or 2 and i assign an option to each. then how i feel about which they say helps me determine what i want. like if i’m disappointed in the answer i know i wanted the other one

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Anonymous 1w

Yes 🫩

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

i like this!! any tricks for important or semi important decisions??

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Hmm those are a bit trickier. Personally I like to just research as much as I can about the decision so I can better choose a decision logically, but I also put a lot of weight in my gut feeling. Previously I thought following logic only led to the best outcome but I’ve found with time a lot of decisions I made that ended up not working out were ones that conflicted with my gut

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

I don’t really have a good trick for these though since there are a lot more factors involved. However when it comes to deciding how important a task is I test it by thinking “will this affect me only today, next week, next month, or next year?” I suppose that’s also not really a trick but you’d be amazed how much faster you can make choices when you put them in the right categories

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