Re: Is there really “nothing positive” about ADD?

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I”ve requested a couple of reasonable accommodations at work.

One is a flexed schedule (start earlier) and the other is different criteria or expectations for my continued training or learning at work. For example, I can’t sit in a “boot camp” style class that’s 5 day week, 8 to 6pm with few breaks. I’d be a basket case, get nothing out of it and cause all sort of problems. So I’m requesting CBT (computer based training) or self-training (my degree is in automotive and I work IT security – all self-taught!) or shorter classes instead of all day or all week.

I’ve literally scoured many dozens of sites, PDF files, studies, youtube videos and spent a lot of hours at home and work on this for days now.

Luckily when I’m very interested, my desires kick in and bypass ADHD and allow my IQ and ability to absorb to come into play (get me interested, show me a picture and I’ll be explaining skyscraper engineering to you in a matter of hours – but bore me and I won’t even remember the subject title.)

This is fascinating and if I was a young person – and had ADHD controlled, I could see myself going to school and getting a degree and working in this area. I did take a lot of psychology in school (as did my little brother) and was fascinated by it. Expert – no!

gee brother puma – this sounds just like ME:

>>Now that I’m getting older and have more responsibilities (and more bureaucracy), my ADD is surfacing more and more at work. <<

Seriously – that’s one reason for the RA requests – and the intense study – to see what I can do to avert disaster at my advance age, and learn and cope…..

Thanks for the added link.

Now I need to find something that quantifies the issues ADHD ADULTS have learning or going to school or taking long classes and justify my request to have it broken up or changed – need to quantify and not put in “I feel” or “in my opinion” or “this would help me” – I need to show the science, and what others do.

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