After my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD I started reading up on it and quickly realized that the descriptions matched me also. Like perfectly. Almost all the coping tools they suggested I’d already put in place. And I drink tones of coffee when I need to get stuff done, which is apparently just self medicating for adht. Then I looked around my workplace - a bunch of software engineers and most of them are the same. The whole Agile project management system (which is very commonly used) actually looks like it’s built on ADHD coping tools.
Agile is ADHD coping mechanisms application to groups. Small steps, frequent measurements, body doubling, regular reminders about the actual goal, etc.
It wasn’t even a project management tooling originally, but a way to ensure bidirectional information flow and continuous course correction. When goals start deceptively simple and get adjusted as data emerges and feedback gets collected, you can either sit in paralysis or start checking off tasks you know about. Applies to cleaning and developing a payment system alike.
My dad is the sort of guy who thinks mental health is for chumps but you could see the concern in his eyes when I came back from college with my own diagnostic and started listing off the signs my therapist pointed out to me.
He still won’t admit it, but he’s fanatical about his coffee, tells me he can’t turn his brain off without a drink (a separate issue), hates breaking his routine, etc etc. Not just a match for ADHD but a match that basically perfectly fits my particular flavor of it.
Glad your kid is getting support at a better age, mine is too. They’ll handle it much better, hopefully, with the extra help.
Years ago we decided to get my daughter evaluated for ADHD. The report came back definite for ADHD and also on the autism spectrum. When my wife and I were going over the report with the child psychologist that had done the testing I could practically see gears in my wife’s head grinding to a halt with a healthy dose of “oh shit” realizations coming over her face.
She’s since also gotten diagnosed and had a whole slew of realizations about her family and especially her mother which helped explain difficulties she’d had growing up.
After my daughter was diagnosed with ADHD I started reading up on it and quickly realized that the descriptions matched me also. Like perfectly. Almost all the coping tools they suggested I’d already put in place. And I drink tones of coffee when I need to get stuff done, which is apparently just self medicating for adht. Then I looked around my workplace - a bunch of software engineers and most of them are the same. The whole Agile project management system (which is very commonly used) actually looks like it’s built on ADHD coping tools.
Agile is ADHD coping mechanisms application to groups. Small steps, frequent measurements, body doubling, regular reminders about the actual goal, etc.
It wasn’t even a project management tooling originally, but a way to ensure bidirectional information flow and continuous course correction. When goals start deceptively simple and get adjusted as data emerges and feedback gets collected, you can either sit in paralysis or start checking off tasks you know about. Applies to cleaning and developing a payment system alike.
My dad is the sort of guy who thinks mental health is for chumps but you could see the concern in his eyes when I came back from college with my own diagnostic and started listing off the signs my therapist pointed out to me.
He still won’t admit it, but he’s fanatical about his coffee, tells me he can’t turn his brain off without a drink (a separate issue), hates breaking his routine, etc etc. Not just a match for ADHD but a match that basically perfectly fits my particular flavor of it.
Glad your kid is getting support at a better age, mine is too. They’ll handle it much better, hopefully, with the extra help.
Years ago we decided to get my daughter evaluated for ADHD. The report came back definite for ADHD and also on the autism spectrum. When my wife and I were going over the report with the child psychologist that had done the testing I could practically see gears in my wife’s head grinding to a halt with a healthy dose of “oh shit” realizations coming over her face.
She’s since also gotten diagnosed and had a whole slew of realizations about her family and especially her mother which helped explain difficulties she’d had growing up.