The lighter side of ADHD
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17063654
Pretty sure every bit of this besides creativity is on my resume in one form or another. I've been told by a few interviewers its the best resume they've seen, save for my work history...
I'm excellent at moving from one task to another
(they just may not be the ones you want me working on)
hey boss I did that thing you didn't know I decided I was excited about. Don't worry I stayed up sleepless working on it for an entire week which is why I've been unable to focus during meetings. It also prevented me from looking at the items you had assigned me two weeks ago
Too real. Turn back.
I did that thing you didn't know I decided I was excited about.
This, in an optimistic voice, hits me right in the imposter syndrome.
ADHD literally makes you bad at task switching.
Well, no one said anything about completing or even progressing the tasks. Just switching between them
Heavily depends on what the tasks are
3 different hyperfixations at once? let's fucking go
a game i don't even really want to play more of today vs the dishes? best believe i'm adding another 12h to the steam counter
Luckily I have the likes doing the dishes OCD-tangent ADHD. 😎
my mild ocd only perks up when i'm stressed and then i wash my hands 5 times in a row because i need to grab my towel just right for my brain to stfu and let me get on with my life 😔
I love doing them manually but I absolutely hate emptying or filling a dishwasher
well yes because we struggle to consciously task-switch.
Is there any bonus for hitting 4/5?
Monetarily? No. Fun stories? Oh yeah
I anticipatie accidents and hiccups before they happen
Except for the ones that actually happen.
I sadly have to tell my employer that i have "severly disabled" status. Working rights.
Got special protection when fired, 5 days more vacation and other things i probably dont know
TIL that the difference between working according to the norm and working as severely disabled is approximately 1.37% less workdays a year.
The math doesn’t add up. You pretty much need to be dead before people consider you disabled enough to work a single day.
Its nice that there are protections and i am glad you have the one you do but still fuck this nonsense.
In many countries you can apply to disability pension, the protectios mentioned here are if you have a job / intend to have a job.
Is it filler or is it just the truth?
I truly see it as my biggest strength that my ADHD can make me do a weeks worth of tasks in a single day when needed, or the fact that i can hear the 3D printer crashing from acros the room, or catch the tiniest imperceptible changes to the sound and rhythm of a machine I'm working on because my focus is on everything all at once. It can take my colleagues days to figure something out that I catch immediately.
I maintain that the best way to talk about adhd/autism (provided you don't need a lot of assistence) is just sidegrades: where most people are fives across the board, adhd might pull a point or two from focus and assign that to perception instead, and autism might pull some points from charisma and bump up intelligence, for example.
And with the right routines and coping methods you can ideally bring the low numbers back up a bit, leaving you with more totals than normal, which is quite nice even if you'll always have some struggles.
Every time someone asks in an interview what one of my weaknesses is, i mention how I often will focus on technical task far too in depth, basically try to flip my hyper focus into a strength. But it kind of is. It's honestly made me a great engineer. Then again, my anxiety has made being an engineer more difficult. It's called balance.
This was "fun" when I had no choice but small-shop retail, because I'd get assigned a task that required some thinking and doing, and then get nagged because I didn't just insta-drop everything in the middle of a thought to hop down from the ladder to go all genius-bar-Willy-Wonka at some shop-zombie that just shuffled in and probably didn't even know why they entered, much less "What I could help them find."