Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok
by lewispollard on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:12AM
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Same here; I have an ADHD-PI diagnosis. Obviously everyone with ADHD or adjacent symptoms is different, but the idea of having talking on in the background while working is untenable to me. Open offices have been the worst working environments I've ever used. Even having gentle, instrumental music on with headphones is too distracting for me to work. Silence, or no work is done. If people are close by, even if they're not interacting with me, just them being close by is distracting enough to make my productivity tank. Same issue with these "remote doubling" services, in my experience.
Maybe it's different for people with a "primarily hyperactive" diagnosis, where the doubling is more an aspect of keeping them in their seat than anything.
But, being around people does not help me focus at all, I have an anxiety about them interrupting me, maybe I need to pay attention to something going on in the environment because there are people.
Open offices are a nightmare, and I talk about it openly.
Strangely, this issue does not exist in coffee shops. I think it’s something to do with the fact that people are extremely unlikely to interact with me in a coffee shop. So, take that for whatever it’s worth. Body doubling certainly isn’t universal among people with ADHD markers.