[rtikulit]

I find it hard to do my actual job, which is often boring. So what I do instead is I find something else to do, that is even more valuable than my actual job and significantly more difficult, but which is inherently interesting to me. Then i go all ADHD hyperfocus on it. I've been lucky... management goes “wow, initiative, thanks!”

Many of my ADHD friends say something similar... they can't follow orders, so they have to make sure they find something in the work that they can obsess over.