Working memory and time blindness
It's not that you don't care. It's that nothing stays in view long enough to matter.
Homework arrives from six different directions at once — a group chat, an app, an email, a folder, something a teacher said in passing, a note you meant to make and didn't. You write it down, then forget you wrote it down. And starting still feels harder than the task itself: a ten-minute job that somehow needs an hour of dread first.
None of that is about not caring. Working memory isn't built to hold six sources at once, and time blindness lets an evening disappear before you've noticed it going. Falling behind doesn't happen in one big moment — it happens quietly, task by task, while everyone else seems to have it figured out.
