Re: ADHD folks clustering in jobs

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@KnittingKat:

>>I have heard that some career fields attract more ADHD people than others do, but I don’t know how truthful that is.<<

I can believe it. There’s a fellow who works over at ITE (IT enterprise for the state) my team lead, the network admin here, mentioned his name with a couple of attributes this fellow has, so I asked “say, who is this fellow and exactly what does he do there”?

The response was “he’s basically your counterpart and pretty sure a bit ADD” then they went on to further describe this guy. Yeah, sounds a LOT like me in all too many ways!

Deep technical network work, firewalls, computer “forensics” and such, almost requires one to be ADD and a bit “flaky” at times.

Like so many other things, different personalities tend to do similar things or act in similar ways. The problem with ADD is that it includes a pretty good mix of personalities otherwise, so maybe ADD folks don’t fit as many molds, but I’d bet there’s more of a tendency.

I’d guess actors and comics would often be ADD, more so than other “types”.

(If Robin Williams isn’t ADD, I’d be surprised – there’s something going on in that creative genius head of his)

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