Ask A Manager ADHD Tips
--- ElizabethJane October 24, 2024 at 11:05 am Find a project tracking system that works for you for keeping track of your direct reports. Personally I use Google slides and I have a deck for reach...
Posts tagged with "adhd"
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Rushing a neurodivergent person
From an online post: Many neurodivergents process sensory information more intensively due to their unique and often heightened neural connectivity patterns. This sensitivity means that rapid changes...
Meeting yourself
From Threads: I feel like the people in my life cannot comprehend what it’s like to “meet yourself” for the first time at 29 years old. Like - getting my ADHD diagnosis & recognizing that many of my...
MeFi ADHD
I didn't get diagnosed till age 51. But I was definitely having emotional dysregulation ("oversensitive"), problems with focus ("need to buckle down") etc. as a kid. I developed coping mechanisms...
ADHD pro tips from Reddit
I went through 700 reddit comments and collected 131 ADHD pro-tips! The 131 tips are split into the following categories: General 🌟 My Favourite: Enjoy the journey more than the destination, don't be...
Reddit ADHD snippets
Let me unpack some of the subtle and vicious ways ADHD undermines our relationships Before we dive in So what about ADHD makes relationships especially hard? tl;dr: ADHD cripples the part of our...
Masking
This thread talks about masking in the most relatable way I've seen so far: One of the cruelest things about Autistic/ADHD masking is that you learn to treat positive emotions as a warning sign that...
ADHD trouble
From divergentcoachkelly on Threads: ADDers often have a persistent sense of being in trouble, even when we've done nothing wrong. It's a sense that somehow we're fucking up without knowing how. This...
Metafilter Snippets
Forgiveness Is forgiveness overrated?: > "In a 2008 essay in the journal In Character, history professor Wilfred McClay writes that as a society we have twisted the meaning of forgiveness into a...
Waste of my medicine
From a meme: Normalize ADHDers being able to say "this is a waste of my medicine" during work meetings
Not remembering
Neurotypicals don't get it. My wife will act like I intentionally don't remember stuff. I have to keep saying, "Do you think I'd make my life more unpleasant on purpose?"
Oversharing
Oh for sure. I think I had a tendency to overshare before. I think it's partially what you said above, trying to establish a friendship, but also because no one really listened to me back in the day,...
Hyperfocuses
From Twitter: Sometimes people ask me how I know all the random shit I know (with varying levels of politeness and belief in its veracity) and I all I got is > I have ADHD, an Internet connection,...