Dr. Devon Price, a social psychologist and author of Laziness Does Not Exist, argues that what we call laziness is often a symptom of unmet needs — physical, emotional, or otherwise.

For example:

• A 2018 study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that procrastination, often conflated with laziness, is more about emotional regulation than a lack of discipline. People procrastinate not because they’re lazy but because they’re avoiding feelings of stress or inadequacy associated with the task.
• Research in disability studies highlights how fatigue and burnout, common in chronic illness and neurodivergence, are often dismissed as “laziness” by abled society. This dismissal contributes to harmful stereotypes that ignore the lived realities of disabled people.

This rings true to me