Could you be working better?
Here's your chance to work with your ADHD brain (not against it)
I went to an old school grammar school. Not a good place with ADHD.
We wore suit and tie, sat behind wooden desks facing strict teachers, and were slapped with detention when our uniform was wrong.
The place knew how to suck all semblance of independence from you.
They wanted to produce replicable drones and they knew it.
I never fit in.
After leaving school I went to music school. Expecting a similar structure of rules I was shocked to find something very different on my first day.
I walked into the classroom to find all the chairs around the edge of the room in a circle. There were no tables. Some kids were sitting in the window sills.
What the fook is happening? I thought.
No structure, no rules, and (most noticeably) everyone was happy.
I learned that this was the masterstroke of my new teacher, Janet.
Janet knew that creative people work in different ways. Some like to sit, some on chairs, some in windows. Others like to lie on the floor. Others had to stand.
Having ADHD, I was always fidgety.
The grammar school hated this.
But music school embraced it. Allowing me to have a guitar in my hands most of the time. Once the guitar was in my hands I could think. It channeled my busy mind into something worthy, opening me up to deeper thoughts.
Why am I telling you this?
Think about the way you work today.
Are you in the right environment? Would you be better off standing up to think? Or perhaps walking in the woods?
Whatever it is, find the way you think and work best and do it on purpose.
You're a free agent now, there's no reason to adhere to any rules (corporate, educational, or societal).
Enjoy yourself.
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I too, went to a traditional Grammar school! And yes, it was soo hard for me!
But I just thought I must try harder!
I carried ALL my books in my school bag ALL the time, in case I forgot one!
I wrote copious notes but had the focus of a gnat! And struggled with exams.
But back then, we had no knowledge about neurodiversity did we?
35 years after uni, I was bankrupt & homeless!
My son was the same as me at school! But sheer grit & determination finally got him to uni to study agricultural business. However, 20 years on, he's being evicted by his house builder landlord for not conforming to their expectations!! Even though they won't need the land for probably 40 years!!!
I'm diagnosed now, he is not - but he loves & needs the freedom of self employment and the variety of running four separate businesses! He refuses to play the corporate games, like myself & my dad before him!