The truth about ADHD - you are here for a reason, Anons!
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Try being Nuerodivergent (ADHD) in your 50’s and in corporate America surrounded by moron millennials.
I hear you. Try being married to someone who I now believe falls on the Asperger's spectrum who feels very little emotion and simply doesn't react or notice when something happens, while I feel everything for everyone, read body language like an expert and see everything and react in microseconds.
It's so hard to explain my feelings and observations to those in my sphere who just can't understand nor fathom any of it.
One example of my marital mismatch:
Years ago, we we went to see a movie together and then to dinner afterwards near the theater. The movie was a new blockbuster that was full of fantastic dialogue, incredible special effects, great soundtrack, and clever comedic moments. It ran almost 3 hrs. I thought it was absolutely terrific and couldn't say enough good things about it as we walked out. I liked it very much.
After being seated at our table, our waitress asked us if we'd just come from the theater and what did we see and did we like it?
My spouse said, "We saw ___. It was fine." And that was the entirety of the response. Sigh...
It's tough living in this world with the kind of disparate thinking patterns we each possess!
My wife will talk through an entire movie. Asking questions every second. Saw a dude on tick tock that had the same problem- his solution…he goes I’ll ask her what movie she wants to see whether in a theater or on Netflix and I go ahead and watch the movie by myself, then I take her to see the movie 😂🤣😂
This is my wife as well. I'm going to start pre-watching so I can answer all her questions kek !
LOL! And watch it in peace. I love my frens on GAW
Wow … I got one of those too. When Tucker was on Fox he would be giving a dialogue and 100% of the time she would start asking questions while he was still talking. I am a ‘listener’. If someone is speaking on something I am focused on, I zero in, listen and analyze. I had to establish a hard and fast rule … she can ask question either AFTER, or if it on TV, pause the shit. I am not fucking rainman, I cant listen and answer questions At the same time. 😂😂
You're describing my marriage. My husband is the same. We could be eating a most delicious meal out at a lovely restaurant. He will completely clean his plate and I'll ask him if he enjoyed it. He'll say it was alright. He's Spock, I'm Kirk. It's tough at times but somehow we make a good team.
What was the movie? I need a good one.
It drove me crazy in my last corporate gig. Almost all of us managers were clearly ADHD, along with the CEO. Their CFO (sibling) was so firmly fixed in the normie realm that he hated meetings with their Brother (CEO) and all of us managers. He did keep most of the teams from running with poorly through out ideas. Though our teams were always excited because almost all of the the managers were filled with high energy & accepted new ideas as real potentials for growth & productivity. Many of the ideas were reasoned out withing two to three days, though I haven't worked anywhere that employees felt so valued for their opinions. Unfortunately there were some issues with upper level managers feeling like the rest of us threatened their position & almost all of us left within 6 year of the first taking off. Sadly the company went under after that. My former team told me they all left because it wasn't fun after I left & that the new boss only cared about numbers.
It amazed me how much more the younger millenials (toward the end of that generation) were in some form of a chicken little mindset, or worried about what others thought vs the guys my age & older who didn't care about potential problems so much as long as the work got done.
My place used a blue envelope for your check. They didn’t want Excellence they wanted mediocrity- so I started working for the blue envelope. Todays corporate is so sad
When I finally left, they were offering managers double to triple their salary to stay on because everyone was bouncing to work as leadership for competitors that were popping up and paying way more.
It sucks when you work for a company that doesn't look for excellence. Granted when economies are down, it is hard to take risks on growth. Knowing the economy will eventually rebound, many owners just ride out the bad times & do their best to keep afloat until they can give better incentives for chance.
That said, too many get afraid & don't find ways to appreciate their best employees for little to no added monetary cost during those hard time. If they would, it helps with the morale & loyalty.