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For business and finance, I pick my bank based on two things: customer service, and whether their app does everything I want. The less I have to speak to a live human, the more I can get on with my life and do more important things.
The nice thing about texting is that it forces you to keep your conversations short. The shorter the conversations, the less time you have to get sidetracked. In a perfect world, I’d never talk on the phone.
Ever do this? You call the ADHD person in your life, and they answer with “Hey, is everything okay?” “Yeah, all is fine, I just had a question for you.” Chances are, the next thing out of the ADHDer’s mouth is going to be “Okay, can we talk later? I’m in the middle of something here.”
The problem is, you’ve just taken us out of our zone. See, when you’re ADHD, “zones” are lifesavers. They allow us to work nonstop, they allow us to go from idea to paper to computer to implementation, all in a matter of minutes, while it would take a “normal” person hours, if not days. But if we’re interrupted, we’re screwed, and getting back on track becomes a process that often results in our not doing anything at all.
had absolutely no idea that these behaviors were consistent with ADHD. I figured they were just personality quirks that make me, me.
If you find something to do for a living that you love, it won’t bore you. Those with ADHD excel at things that don’t bore us much more than the things that don’t excite us.
My first semester at Notre Dame was the first time I was not the best in the classroom.
Ditto
I simply chose not to compete; instead I found my lower limit of work to still do okay. It made me feel better, strangely, that if I wasn’t trying as hard as everyone else, or didn’t care as much as someone else, then was I really “less-than”?
Ditto again
Always keep a notebook with you. My mind moves really quickly through thoughts and ideas. If I don’t write it down, it’s gone.
For example, nearly all of the other scientists in my Ph.D. thesis lab are early morning people, and we have open-concept desk space. This was frustrating at first. My peak productive early morning hours, when I would normally have the lab to myself, are not so productive when everyone else comes in early, too!
