Telling people you have ADHD
One of the things that’s come up frequently in my ADHD coaching sessions is the benefit of telling people you have ADHD casually in conversation.
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It can provide context for your ADHD behaviors that helps people understand you better and offer their own accommodations for you.
In my experience, it’s made social interactions a lot more smooth. It’s even led to me learning the person I’m talking to also has ADHD, which sparks a whole bunch of bonding and insta-friendship!
Quick heads up: I’m probably going to ask you what your name is half-a-dozen times. I have ADHD, so names have a tough time sticking in my brain. Sorry in advance!
Sorry, I have ADHD, and just realized I was rambling a bit. I’ll stop now so you can respond.
While I don’t generally like to apologize for my ADHD—it’s not a flaw that needs fixing—I do think it’s important to acknowledge the social inconvenience it can create for others.
And this may not be a tactic you want to employ in a job interview (though I have and it worked out really well for me).
But I would like to encourage you to own your ADHD, feel proud of it, let others know, and lean into all of the things about it that make you wonderfully weird!