r/videos • u/Jtaimelafolie • May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

My boss has ADHD. It's like working in a fucking tornado.

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u/cassova May 30 '17

I'm curious. Can you elaborate?

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u/no_ragrats May 30 '17

Think of your team constantly changing directions, no stable deadlines, things getting added/taken away from 'your pile' willy-nilly.

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u/The_Dacca May 30 '17

A normal day in IT. finally found an environment that can keep up with my adhd.

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u/bumblebritches57 May 30 '17

Why are there so many of us in IT/Programming tho?

It's like a mecca for a religion no one knows.

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u/The_Dacca May 30 '17

For me there's always something to do. Theres always a deadline, a task, and a distraction for something else that there's no time or way to procrastinate like other jobs. I can't get distracted when my job is distracting me from my job!

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u/GruePwnr May 30 '17

Lots of complicated ideas at once to satisfy the full breadth of our focus but the overarching ideas are very simple so we don't lose track of why we are doing it.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

TIL my boss must be ADHD.

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u/_Auron_ May 30 '17

Sounds like almost every startup company.

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u/no_ragrats May 30 '17

Because those who own a company and arent able to mitigate this on their own or by hiring competent managers/secretaries/etc generally don't make it past being a startup

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u/gmcalabr May 30 '17

That sounds less like ADHD and more like indecisiveness. People with ADHD still underdtand the value of setting a plan and staying the course. As someone who has dealt with both problems they seem very distinct to me.

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u/no_ragrats May 30 '17

I was more expressing the inability to stick to the schedule rather than knowing the underlying value