commenting on an 11hrs old post so this will likely not be seen but i heard from a presentation once about adhd that the reason we do this is because it’s our attempt at closing the gap between us and neurotypicals  closing a tab is technically not the issue the issue is whenif we ever need that information if we don’t have it readily available we would need to start the process up unfortunately for us we’re running off of a window’s ‘96 1996 dell laptop with a start-up time of for fucking ever so instead we try to put these tidbits of information into “sleep” instead of closing the window“shut down” still going to take a minute to get going but considerably faster than the alternative and yes this is the same when you have 8000 tabs because you at least know the info you need is in that 18000 vs potentially not remembering at all what you’re looking for but you know that you know something that could be useful for this situation if only you had saved it