I truly see it as my biggest strength that my ADHD can make me do a weeks worth of tasks in a single day when needed, or the fact that i can hear the 3D printer crashing from acros the room, or catch the tiniest imperceptible changes to the sound and rhythm of a machine I’m working on because my focus is on everything all at once. It can take my colleagues days to figure something out that I catch immediately.
I maintain that the best way to talk about adhd/autism (provided you don’t need a lot of assistence) is just sidegrades: where most people are fives across the board, adhd might pull a point or two from focus and assign that to perception instead, and autism might pull some points from charisma and bump up intelligence, for example.
And with the right routines and coping methods you can ideally bring the low numbers back up a bit, leaving you with more totals than normal, which is quite nice even if you’ll always have some struggles.
Every time someone asks in an interview what one of my weaknesses is, i mention how I often will focus on technical task far too in depth, basically try to flip my hyper focus into a strength. But it kind of is. It’s honestly made me a great engineer. Then again, my anxiety has made being an engineer more difficult. It’s called balance.
This was “fun” when I had no choice but small-shop retail, because I’d get assigned a task that required some thinking and doing, and then get nagged because I didn’t just insta-drop everything in the middle of a thought to hop down from the ladder to go all genius-bar-Willy-Wonka at some shop-zombie that just shuffled in and probably didn’t even know why they entered, much less “What I could help them find.”
Is it filler or is it just the truth?
I truly see it as my biggest strength that my ADHD can make me do a weeks worth of tasks in a single day when needed, or the fact that i can hear the 3D printer crashing from acros the room, or catch the tiniest imperceptible changes to the sound and rhythm of a machine I’m working on because my focus is on everything all at once. It can take my colleagues days to figure something out that I catch immediately.
I maintain that the best way to talk about adhd/autism (provided you don’t need a lot of assistence) is just sidegrades: where most people are fives across the board, adhd might pull a point or two from focus and assign that to perception instead, and autism might pull some points from charisma and bump up intelligence, for example.
And with the right routines and coping methods you can ideally bring the low numbers back up a bit, leaving you with more totals than normal, which is quite nice even if you’ll always have some struggles.
Every time someone asks in an interview what one of my weaknesses is, i mention how I often will focus on technical task far too in depth, basically try to flip my hyper focus into a strength. But it kind of is. It’s honestly made me a great engineer. Then again, my anxiety has made being an engineer more difficult. It’s called balance.
This was “fun” when I had no choice but small-shop retail, because I’d get assigned a task that required some thinking and doing, and then get nagged because I didn’t just insta-drop everything in the middle of a thought to hop down from the ladder to go all genius-bar-Willy-Wonka at some shop-zombie that just shuffled in and probably didn’t even know why they entered, much less “What I could help them find.”