DIRECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION™ CARD DECK FOR EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION: ACT 4&5: ADVANCED

DIRECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION™ CARD DECK
A theatre-themed system for executive dysfunction
Over 500 cards, three levels

Neurodivergent people are not broken versions of neurotypical people. We are running a different operating system. Motivation works differently. Task initiation is a neurological event, and most resources completely ignore that.

These are called Direcutive Dysfunction Cards for Executive Dysfunction, which is a stupid little pun and also extremely literal. They exist because most tools for neurodivergent people are not actually made for neurodivergent people. They are made for neurotypical people’s idea of us.

My brain does not move because it is told to. It moves because something is interesting, novel, urgent, playful, or emotionally charged. That is just how the wiring works. So I made cards.

Each card gives you a short insight, a Stage Note, and a Cue Prompt. You pull one card. You try it or you ignore it. Either is allowed.

The deck is split into three levels:

Advanced (THIS PACK!)leans into performance, challenge, and stakes, hacking motivation through play, role, and meaning.

Built for brains that understand their patterns and want tools that work with INCUP motivation instead of fighting it.

• Leans into roles, stakes, and play-acting to hack motivation

• Designed for when you want to turn tasks into quests, scenes, missions, or performances.

• High-engagement cues that transform effort into something dramatic, funny, or personally meaningful.

Novice Designed for moments when your nervous system is loud and Nothing seems important or FUN

 Intermediate adds strategy, working with momentum, novelty, energy, and time distortion.
You do not have to use them in order. You do not have to graduate. You are allowed to pull from whatever deck meets you where you are that day. That flexibility is intentional.

Cards are small. Cards are portable. Cards don’t demand your entire life. You can interact with them when you have energy and forget they exist when you don’t.

Digital download. Print or use on your device.

Created by Alora Young, neurodivergent educator, Youth Poet Laureate, and Researcher at Vanderbilt University