"I hate mailing stuff; it gives me anxiety.... I have ADHD, and it makes it hard for me to do certain tasks where the payoff is far off in the future or abstract."

"I don’t find [voting] intrinsically motivational. The amount of work logically isn’t that much: Fill out a form, mail it, go to a specific place on a specific day. But those kind of tasks can be hard for me to do if I’m not enthusiastic about it.... After 2016, a couple friends became a lot more politically active, and they helped me register and mail the form. So I actually am registered now. I’m leaning toward probably voting in the midterms. It feels like the reason to vote is symbolic. The motivation isn’t about the actual value my vote has; it’s more like a theoretical signaling value. If that’s the case, I would rather signal that Democrats should have more progressive candidates, rather than assuming that everyone on the left will automatically vote for the candidates they run...."

From "12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote" (New York Magazine).