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This is especially painful during interviews for jobs. I sure I lost potential offers right here at the beginning of the interview.
“I’m into making things” has been a good catchall. Making Bread, making Clothes, making Websites, making trouble…
I used to do French classes and we would go round the room and have to say what we did on the weekend (in French of course). I think everyone thought I was shit at French but in reality I just couldn’t remember what I’d done on the weekend.
Never heard of him
<Too many paths overload> try to be more concise.
I’m obviously whatever you would like me to be.
I am obviously whatever is my latest fixation and what I am researching.
Right now I am an investor.
I am a work boot expert with dozens of youtube videos of experience
One of the complications of masking
Só that’s why I always panic and anwser differently?
I like to remove screws when disassembling things before throwing them away. Then I store them away in case I have a need for that exact screw in the future. Out of the hundreds collected I have used at least 4 so it was time well spent.
I do the same thing with cables. I was holding onto a phone cord for well over ten years (no idea where it came from in the first place) and finally tossed it out after telling myself there will never be a need for it. Guess what I needed two weeks later?
I do the same and I have actually used a lot of them again because I always forget that I actually wanted to buy some screws in different sizes, so I just make due with whatever I have at home since the urge to do stuff usually hits at 2 am, when you can’t buy screws like right now.
As a medicated ADHD adult, I struggle with this, too, because someone who asks this may be looking for specific aspects of your personality, or hobbies, or literally anything not related to what you may be thinking or worrying about at that moment. So make it a point to put the ball back into their court:
“Sure, what do you wanna know?”
IME: if they don’t know what to ask, then they likely don’t actually care, so apply the K.I.S.S. principle and pick one not-interesting thing. Not your circus, not your monkeys.
Hastily remembers im camouflaging to keep my job.
“I like cats, video games, a good book, tacos, cheese steaks, women”
Oh shit, what am I listing off now?
“You know, computer and things.”
“Computer? Ok…”
Fucking nailed it.
Work icebreakers, where the extraverted host on a training day excitedly says “tell me something fun about yourself” or even worse “two truths and a lie.”
Oh oh. “I know a little bit about almost anything”
That sets you up for “tell me a random fact.” I would be stuck buffering on that for a while.
Put these in your bag of tricks: the average human blinks between 15,000 and 20,000 times per day; and if the sun suddenly stopped shining we wouldn’t know about it for about 8 minutes
Those fucking suck. Over the years, I’ve come up with a very short list of “default responses” to those kinds of things. Not worth your time or energy to stand out in these situations.
I dunno man, i just work here
asshole for a brain
This, and then, after you tell that you are neurodivergent, you have to explain what it means and make examples 😣
Luckily, now I have chatGPT for rescue spitting out most common symptoms
