Do you feel like your ADHD has hindered your career progress at all? Or do you still feel like you're achieving what you thought you'd be on pace for?

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Yes. Received a diagnosis later in life so I only recently understood the impact ADHD has had on my life.

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Yes and no. It definitely made work harder, and I’ve paid a lot of ADHD tax.

But I also wonder if I would have been far more conservative in my career if I didn’t have it. If I passed the PE exam the first time because I didn’t procrastinate so much, and didn’t want to change jobs as often, I may have wound up a career engineer instead of going into management consulting and launch startups.

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Don’t forget that ADHD makes us more resilient. So truth is we might never know 😬

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Yes it has but then it may have accelerated me in other areas i.e., it doesn’t seem reasonable to assume my strengths are mine but the problems are ADHD. It’s impossible to separate and is part of who I am.

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Slightly slower so far, but not immensely so. I do wonder if it’ll affect my ceiling. Not doing badly though.

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