Literally was about to type almost exactly this as the explanation.
It is a very real thing for a lot of ADHD and other neurodivergent people, myself included (as well as plenty of other people with a variety of conditions that have similar symptoms), where “if you can’t do the thing you wanted to do it isn’t worth it to spend the effort to half-ass it” and just do something else, even though those two experiences don’t have to be compared to each other and have their own independent merits. It is a big psychological hang-up around rationing the limited energy one has that some experience which can be quite disabling; even if you know that you do it but still can’t bring yourself to compromise internally sometimes to just say “fuck it, I’m doing the thing for the sake of doing it, not to accomplish some predetermined goal”.
The “lakes are big and have scary monsters” implied by the panel of the lake and the “I have a primal feeling” lines could just be a joke on its own or a metaphor for what I described. Idk, I’m not the illustrator of this comic. I’m just some rando on the Internet theorizing for shiggles.
Literally was about to type almost exactly this as the explanation.
It is a very real thing for a lot of ADHD and other neurodivergent people, myself included (as well as plenty of other people with a variety of conditions that have similar symptoms), where “if you can’t do the thing you wanted to do it isn’t worth it to spend the effort to half-ass it” and just do something else, even though those two experiences don’t have to be compared to each other and have their own independent merits. It is a big psychological hang-up around rationing the limited energy one has that some experience which can be quite disabling; even if you know that you do it but still can’t bring yourself to compromise internally sometimes to just say “fuck it, I’m doing the thing for the sake of doing it, not to accomplish some predetermined goal”.
The “lakes are big and have scary monsters” implied by the panel of the lake and the “I have a primal feeling” lines could just be a joke on its own or a metaphor for what I described. Idk, I’m not the illustrator of this comic. I’m just some rando on the Internet theorizing for shiggles.