Working memory and time blindness
You do care. The problem is that nothing stays in view for long enough.
Homework comes from six places at once. It might be a group chat, an app, an email or a folder. It might be something a teacher said once in class, or a note you meant to make. You write it down, then forget you wrote it. Starting still feels harder than the task itself. A 10-minute job can need an hour of dread first.
None of this means you do not care. Working memory cannot hold six sources at once. Time blindness lets an evening go before you notice. Falling behind does not happen all at once. It happens slowly, one task at a time. And everyone else seems to know what they are doing.
