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/[deleted] May 30 '17

I'm a boss with ADHD, the way I usually do things is start a project, fuck this I'm bored, delegate it to someone else, repeat until I'm out of time/people to delegate stuff to, then panic and work my ass off to get everything done before my boss shows up. It was a lot easier when I had a support mgr working with me every day because I made the decisions and he executed them, and I would just work on whatever I felt like doing at the time.

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u/Rheticule May 30 '17

Fuck yes. I'm a project manager with ADHD. WHY THE FUCK DID I GO INTO PROJECT MANAGEMENT? Something about "Can't deal with the future" combined with "your job is literally to plan for the future" seem unnecessarily stupid of me.

That said, if shit goes wrong in a project and things need to be dealt with fast, I'm the one you want on your side (I have a lot of experience dealing with shit going wrong at the last minute...).

If anything this video was demoralizing for me, makes me feel like I'm in exactly the wrong place. Oh well.

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u/ReneG8 May 30 '17

I always feel like crisis management and thinking on the spot are some of our strengths. I'm very good at thinking on my feet( or whatever that expression is)

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u/Rheticule May 30 '17

It's very true, I was thinking about that recently, and think part of it at least is due to the intense experience we have. I mean, all through school I got REALLY good at pulling shit out last minute, finding creative solutions to problems I never should have had in the first place, etc. Now in the workplace, the same people who worked for months on their assignments, and studied for tests in advance can't seem to cope with the all consuming panic of shit hitting the fan nearly as well as me.

As I said though, I don't know if it's an intrinsic ability that comes with ADHD, or just the fact that we live our lives in constant crisis so another one is just another Tuesday for me.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '17

My problem is that there's stuff that works when you blaze it at the 11th hour, and then there's stuff that you need a bit prep work so that the final 11th hour sprint doesn't end in you falling on your face.

Its THAT prep work that is fucking hard to tap into.