[y3sh]

I discovered in my 30s that I have ADHD. In reading this Im surprised at how many of these techniques I discovered out of trial, error, and necessity.

Most are great like headphones, writing things down, blocking out distractions, but the long boring task one fascinates me. For me it actually helps to turn on some video series I’m mildly interested in while doing that long boring task. In-office was so much harder because I could never try having Netflix open.

I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture much better by looking down and slowly maintaining a game on his phone.

[tikhonj]

> I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture much better by looking down and slowly maintaining a game on his phone.

Man, I do the same thing. Zoom meetings have been great for this because I can do that to help me pay attention while still looking like I'm paying attention for the other person on the call. It's funny because it first almost felt like deception, but really it's the opposite: I'm paying more attention than if I weren't doing anything else and worrying about my body language instead...

[pksebben]

I wish I had had you as a professor. Such a struggle to work around notions of "what normal folks should be able to do".

The worst of it was, when I would go to rectify things that got done late or needed extra work, it was all "yeah sure, here's this thing you can do and these deadlines and you'll need to schedule time with me to review during this weird window of time and make sure to fill out these other forms". All of a sudden my late work consists of new scheduling, bureaucracy, and extra deadlines. Throws hands in air