The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Delay Aversion and ADHD: Why Waiting Feels Like Torture
22 minutes Posted Oct 27, 2025 at 11:00 am.
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Ever feel restless in a meeting or line and want to bolt? That’s not impatience, it’s delay aversion. In this Research Recap with William Curb from Hacking Your ADHD, Skye explores new research showing how delay aversion connects boredom, frustration, and inattention in ADHD. Together they dig into how the brain’s reward system makes waiting harder and what you can do to make it easier. What we cover: What delay aversion actually means for ADHDWhy ADHD brains overvalue instant rewardsThe neur...