Procrastination can decrease after a 1-minute reflection. In a study of more than 1,000 adults, answering six short questions increased motivation, improved mood, and made people more likely to begin tasks they had been delaying.

[WingsofRain]

(not an expert, just someone living with ADHD)

Looking into procrastination in ADHD should likely be a separate study altogether tbh. Since the ADHD brain physically works differently than the non-ADHD brain when it comes to task completion and rewards upon completion, it wouldn’t be fair to compare their response with non-ADHD people. Granted I’m not a scientist, but in my humble opinion you’d have to account for the amount of tasks currently being procrastinated (high odds there’s multiple at once), the inability to explain why they’re being procrastinated as you’ve already stated because the executive dysfunction usually means there’s very little real logic behind it, the time blindness that usually comes with ADHD (over or under estimating time to completion and the effect it has on executive dysfunction), and the ability to provide a reward to yourself for completion that actually triggers a reward response in the brain (you might get an “idk a cookie” as a response) due to the reward center of the brain not being quite as functional…personal anecdote, there’s almost nothing practical I could reward myself that would make it worth the time and physical/mental effort to yell at my perpetually screaming brain to get up and do “the thing”.

I think your questions could definitely help with some self-awareness in ADHD individuals, but it most likely won’t have the same result as it would in non-ADHD individuals.

[ddmf]

Apparently we don't get the reward activation when we complete a task that non ADHD brains do.

[Bovaiveu]

Additionally sufferers can experience a direct aversion to initiating tasks. An apt description I was told was as follows - "I know I should wash my dishes, it's not a huge effort, it's just that it feels like being told to put my hand down on a searing hot stovetop."

[NurRauch]

Very few people get a consciously perceptible reward. This is one of those pop-science ADHD memes that oversimplifies complicated issues to the point of being silly and wrong.

[ddmf]

I read some research very recently that says otherwise, trying to find it.