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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Neurodiversity In The Workplace (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I appreciate the fact that some employers recognize that some of their employees struggle with cognitive disorders. But, asking someone with ADHD to click through a very boring presentation about neurodiversity is almost peak irony. Not to mention, trying to distill such complex disorders down to one sentence is practically guaranteed to fail.

Props for trying I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I never considered that having a specific cognitive disorder would mean your brain compensates in other ways, but it makes sense. I have both dyscalculia (which is specifically only number reversal) and dysgraphia, and my reading (words, not numbers), writing (when typing), and verbal skills are definitely above average.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not necessarily even compensating for something else, just a different skillset. I work in software/robotics and my ADHD brain is really happy thinking about the whole system and all the interactions between components, and keeping track of many development threads at once. My neurotypical coworkers excel at being experts in one system and knowing it to the minute detail, and performing sequential tasks. They consider what I do extremely hard and/or annoying because of all the moving pieces... But the opposite is true, I'd die if I had to become an expert in a single, narrow area.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I never considered this might be why I'm good at our system design and maintenance - I do a little bit of everything and every day is different!