Being a successful professional with ADHD sucks. Everyone assumes that just because you've gotten this far in life, then ADHD can't be that bad or disruptive to day-to-day life. In reality, I spend every waking moment of my day balancing the expectation to think linearly (ie "normally") with the expectation that I'll contribute unique insights that are made possible by the non-linear thinking that is a hallmark of ADHD.
It's exhausting.
@DataDrivenMD
This is one of my biggest energy drains:
Working in "linear" teams.
Who work slowly over many weeks on a thing I would have finalized in a week by myself (because I have to finish it before my brain decides that the topic has become "boring").
But somehow working on several projects in parallel is considered "normal" in contrast to actually getting something done.
(Which doesn't mean that I don't think about a lot of interesting off-topic topics while working on a thing.)
Revisiting and regurging an "old" project once a week is just the definition of a mental tar pit.
Jorge Caballero, MD
Not a Spring Onion