Re: Communication between ADHD people

[Patte Rosebank]

@Sailing, that is a very high IQ score. But, as I’ve found out, IQ (how smart you are) isn’t nearly as important as EQ (how well you can use those smarts).

My brother has always said that my IQ blows his out of the water. But I know that his EQ is way higher than mine. He has an MBA (while I struggled to get my BA) and a high-paying career in the corporate world. I’ve struggled through office jobs (most of them temp) and all of them ending badly. I’ve finally found my niche, and, though it doesn’t pay nearly as well as the corporate world does, I really enjoy it.

One of the jobs at which I struggled included having a bully of a boss who treated me like a moron. He even wrote a completely false quarterly review (which stated that “Basic logical concepts appear to be beyond her limited capability” (and he misspelled “capability”)) to justify terminating my employment. I filed a Human Rights complaint, claiming that he failed to accept that I had a mental disability. It dragged out for 3 years, but they eventually settled for far more than the pittance I’d originally been offered as severance.

Several years after that, that bully of a boss died of a massive heart attack on New Year’s Day. And everyone who’d ever worked for him rejoiced. It was like that scene in “A Christmas Carol” when Scrooge is seeing his potential future, in which everyone is celebrating his death.

And that’s the saddest way of all to go. With everyone happy to see the end of you.

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