One of the most frustrating things about #ADHD is how it disrupts your sense of time and how that impacts hourly work. I genuinely care about being a good employee and about doing my work well, but doing it between prescribed hours is immensely difficult for me.
I (try not to) wonder about how much more employable I would be or where I would be in my career right now if I had been able to do my courses and/or work asynchronously. The few courses (and bit of work) I have been able to do that way returned stunningly improved results for me
I really wish I experienced linear time bc the world (and especially the workforce) is constructed with the assumption that everyone experiences time the same way and I’m so tired of worrying that I look like I don’t care bc my brain doesn’t work the same way.
It’s also so beyond difficult to continually remind yourself that “my brain doesn’t work the same way” =/= “my brain doesn’t work”, especially when you are so often shown and told that the “base expectations” of so many tasks are nearly out of reach altogether.
TLDR: it’s incredibly important for abled people to realize that the way they experience something so fundamental as the passage of time isn’t universal. Esp when timeliness/time management is equated to perceived ability, intelligence + motivation. #MakeAbleistsUncomfortable
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