ADHD memes

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.

Found this applies nicely to my career. Routineish work? Drag my feet and fight myself to do anything. Fixing problems (bigger the better)? Everybody stand back, I got it.

Whole damn system failed due to a database failure that propagated to our secondary host too. Hacked our backup to usable in a day (meeting most requirements, including transition requirements) with a path forward for total system recovery on the main system.

Documentation on any of that though, that was a .. struggle.

"My life has been an ongoing series of crises. Move over, you weak-ass bitch, I've got the coping mechanisms for this."

If the crisis is imminent, visual, and physical yes. If the crisis is more abstract with letters and bureaucracy, it’s not the same.

I moments of crisis, I will just start crying, but I can do that very fast.