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How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by internet_user »

ddxxdd wrote: post #48
ScottFree wrote: post #36

My reaction to this article has been... complex. ----- Bah! Another article about ADHD. ADHD's over diagnosed and not not as big a problem as people make it out to be. But, I'm curious all of a sudden, so I might as well read it. > For the first 19 years of my life I knew I was lazy. Yeah, I'm pretty lazy too. That's just who I am, though. I don't have ADHD... > So what, you can't stop bouncing your leg at the restau…

An ADHD diagnosis is based roughly on a 5-percentile standard[0]. In other words, if you are a hardworking, industrious person, but the rest of society is harder-working and more industrious, then you automatically become ADHD-diagnosed by virtue of being on the left side of the bell curve. It's also worth noting that in France, ADHD is seen as a problem with a child's environment instead of a medical issue[1]. [0] h…

Almost all "normal" levels on your bloodwork and all other tests are essentially 2 standard deviation cut offs.

Context and history is just as important.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by puskavi »

ScottFree wrote: post #36

My reaction to this article has been... complex. ----- Bah! Another article about ADHD. ADHD's over diagnosed and not not as big a problem as people make it out to be. But, I'm curious all of a sudden, so I might as well read it. > For the first 19 years of my life I knew I was lazy. Yeah, I'm pretty lazy too. That's just who I am, though. I don't have ADHD... > So what, you can't stop bouncing your leg at the restau…

...yeah, that happened.

I were in ADHD tests but I was told I may just have "small_brain_clipboard", never heard anything back..

...........

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by andrewflnr »

internet_user wrote: post #69
DoreenMichele wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of Twice Exceptional* people get labeled lazy. It may not be ADHD. It may be some other hidden issue. In the vast majority of cases, people who get identified as an adult seem to be tremendously relieved and empowered by having a better label than lazy. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

Twice exceptional people with a solid track record of underachieving? How is that in any way exceptional? * Executive function is affected by all those disorders you mention in the wiki. And the best proxy we know of and can measure is attention.

There are other axes by which to assess humans than "acheivement". There are even other axes for value! Someone can be "exceptional" along any of them.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by pseudalopex »

internet_user wrote: post #69
DoreenMichele wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of Twice Exceptional* people get labeled lazy. It may not be ADHD. It may be some other hidden issue. In the vast majority of cases, people who get identified as an adult seem to be tremendously relieved and empowered by having a better label than lazy. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

Twice exceptional people with a solid track record of underachieving? How is that in any way exceptional? * Executive function is affected by all those disorders you mention in the wiki. And the best proxy we know of and can measure is attention.

Unusual strengths and unusual deficits are both exceptions to the norm.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by joshmn »

For my fellow ADHD people: Dr. Russell Barkley changed my how I think about every day life with ADHD.

He explains it as not as much of an attention disorder as much as it is a time management disorder: we're nearsighted to time and all its constraints.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by pmart123 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #55
ScottFree wrote: post #36

My reaction to this article has been... complex. ----- Bah! Another article about ADHD. ADHD's over diagnosed and not not as big a problem as people make it out to be. But, I'm curious all of a sudden, so I might as well read it. > For the first 19 years of my life I knew I was lazy. Yeah, I'm pretty lazy too. That's just who I am, though. I don't have ADHD... > So what, you can't stop bouncing your leg at the restau…

A lot of Twice Exceptional* people get labeled lazy. It may not be ADHD. It may be some other hidden issue. In the vast majority of cases, people who get identified as an adult seem to be tremendously relieved and empowered by having a better label than lazy. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

Well, particularly with ADHD, if it’s harder to power through life tasks or remain focused on topics that are not mentally stimulating, it typically means you can hyper focus when you do stumble into something that is mentally stimulating. I think people with ADHD have a high propensity to large successes, or tragic failure because if you don’t find your true interest or calling, it’s harder to carry through something that you find is just ok.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by colechristensen »

garmaine wrote: post #74
colechristensen wrote: post #35

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What I'm trying to say is that there's nothing wrong with being what you are. Instead there is something wrong with a society that discriminates against it (and living in that society sucks). Trying to fit in to it is what sucks and the solution is not being better at fitting in.

Wtf man. ADHD very nearly ended my marriage and my career. I think you are being very insensitive to the issues adhd people face.

I am not. I experience them and suffered the consequences.

ADHD people suffer because we don't meet expectations. Either there is something wrong with us or something wrong with the expectations and I choose the latter and want to help fix it. Saying "something is wrong with me" and wanting to fit in, for me, is the problem. Constantly not meeting expectations is the problem but I deny that not meeting them is the fault.

The world and I do not get along. I do not want to shape myself for the world, I want to shape the world for people like me. Fuck everyone who wants me to be different.

Saying ADHD is a disease is just as offensive to me as saying homosexuality is a disease to be cured.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by internet_user »

andrewflnr wrote: post #83
internet_user wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twice exceptional people with a solid track record of underachieving? How is that in any way exceptional? * Executive function is affected by all those disorders you mention in the wiki. And the best proxy we know of and can measure is attention.

There are other axes by which to assess humans than "acheivement". There are even other axes for value! Someone can be "exceptional" along any of them.

Goal oriented self-directed behavior is what distinguishes us from apes.

Underachieving is just inability to deploy your efforts effectively, or even inability to muster an effort in the worst cases. That translates to every domain and aspect of human life from scholastic to social to friendships etc etc etc.

Value is not entirely subjective.

Re: How I Run a Company with ADHD

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Post by nerdbaggy »

firecall wrote: post #57
ScottFree wrote: post #36

My reaction to this article has been... complex. ----- Bah! Another article about ADHD. ADHD's over diagnosed and not not as big a problem as people make it out to be. But, I'm curious all of a sudden, so I might as well read it. > For the first 19 years of my life I knew I was lazy. Yeah, I'm pretty lazy too. That's just who I am, though. I don't have ADHD... > So what, you can't stop bouncing your leg at the restau…

I have ADHD. There are other serious neurological issues connected to ADHD. It's a very misunderstood disorder with a broad spectrum of identifiable symptoms that could indicate ADHD. If you are heavily medicating with caffeine, then that can be a signal. I was using Pseudoephedrine and caffeine to self medicate and stabilise my moods and behaviours. That was before I got prescribed Ritalin. But as the article says,…

RSD is a nightmare for me. Something I always have to work on
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