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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by falcolas on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:17PM (#19895744)
Aah, yes, that round hole called “work”. All the creativity, all the beauty of being a square peg is absolutely useless in the face of having to make money to survive.

PTSD. Constant stress. Having trouble just keeping promises to friends. Failing to even keep up a hobby. The inability to control your own concentration.

ADHD most definitely sucks.

Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by colechristensen on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:29PM (#19895798)
What I'm trying to say is that there's nothing wrong with being what you are.

Instead there is something wrong with a society that discriminates against it (and living in that society sucks). Trying to fit in to it is what sucks and the solution is not being better at fitting in.

Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by garmaine on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:37PM (#19896055)
Wtf man. ADHD very nearly ended my marriage and my career. I think you are being very insensitive to the issues adhd people face.
Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by colechristensen on Sunday May 12, 2019 @11:05PM (#19896167)
I am not. I experience them and suffered the consequences.

ADHD people suffer because we don't meet expectations. Either there is something wrong with us or something wrong with the expectations and I choose the latter and want to help fix it. Saying "something is wrong with me" and wanting to fit in, for me, is the problem. Constantly not meeting expectations is the problem but I deny that not meeting them is the fault.

The world and I do not get along. I do not want to shape myself for the world, I want to shape the world for people like me. Fuck everyone who wants me to be different.

Saying ADHD is a disease is just as offensive to me as saying homosexuality is a disease to be cured.

Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by thecatspaw on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:33AM (#19896801)
Its not about other peoples expectations though, its also about our own.

Maybe you are okay with never finishing any project you start. I am not. It feels awful to me to start 10 Projects a month and never finishing any. It feels awful to me to be very sensitive to rejection, even though I realize the other person did not mean it like that.

> Saying ADHD is a disease is just as offensive to me as saying homosexuality is a disease to be cured.

You can not compare these like this. One is a sexual orientation, and the other is a inability to regulate yourself the way you want.

Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by garmaine on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:59AM (#19907631)
There's some massive irony in him telling off others for treating ADHD as a disease, all because he doesn't like others imposing things on him...