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[–] [email protected] -5 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

I hate this mentality. I know plenty of ADHD folks for whom this isn't true. I see this repeated often. If you're able to respond well in a crisis, how do you know it's because of your ADHD? I see no reason to think that it's because of a disability. It just bothers me when people make my very real and very debilitating disability sound like something fun and quirky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It is because a crisis often has the right level of stimuli. It is also why ADHD folks tend to wait until the last minute and then pull out all the stops to get things done.

Not everyone with ADHD is good in a crisis, but it is a very common theme for us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I do my absolutely best work a couple of hours before the big project is due.

I might have had a few weeks to do it, but nooooo. I don’t even really get started until the night before.

I do think it’s the added “element of danger” that kicks my brain into overdrive.

The rest of the time, I’m in a quasi-befogged state. Perhaps during that boring time, I’m saving up energy to handle the “danger” before going back into my little trance.

I’ve been weirdly extremely successful once I figured out how to work with this tendency, instead of fighting it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I do tend to think things through without acting on it until the last minute, then knock it out successfully on the first try. Some coworkers will start the work and then fail, redo the work, etc. which were the same things I was thinking would fail as I thought through it, and it took us roughly the same amount of time to work through.

They show continuous effort, and I look like I breezed through it, but we just had different ways of getting to the same end goal.

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