I asked my LinkedIn network for the positives of ADHD, from their own lived experience of ADHD (not from neurodiversity industry spin, or Chat GPT) and here is what they said.
‘Regular spells with no work to slightly reinvent, vent, and ventilate; seriously; if you don’t get off once in a while the work train is your life story. If a job ends, I think many of us are so busy giving the job everything the Plan B never comes into focus.’ Paul Houston
‘Oh you want a non text-book answer:
– I can dance to the end of the night and still have something left
– I can fill a conversation gap with the greatest non-sequitur of all time over and over again
– I see connections where people see gaps
– I always believe I have more to give
– Loyal, to a fault (sometimes that’s a fault in itself)
– leave no-one behind unless they explicitly say to do so
– I burn bright. I can not help it nor want to hide it. I feel things and what others feel passionately, intensely and exhaustively, but I am not put off by it nor do I seek to dilute it. I understand other people are put off by my intensity and I just have to accept it. Ric Clark
My ADHD brain often solves problems for me while engaged in an unrelated activity. I’m having a conversation, watching TV, and it says, “Hey that’s just like the project issue we were trying to solve”.
On the surface there isn’t anything similar about the project issue and present distraction.
I don’t know how it works but there is some subroutine running in the background doing its own thing without any conscious effort on my part.
Definitely a love/hate relationship with that guy. Kenneth Bowers
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