AuDHD
A place for those that got both Autism and ADHD, those confirmed as one and are suspecting they got the other as well, and also everyone who is neither and just genuinely curious.
Since the combo comes with its own set of challenges, this shall be a place to ask for advice, vent, infodump about special interests and/or just vibe and meme.
Please be respectful. General niceness guidelines apply - formal rules will be added later if necessary.
In regards to medication and medical advice: Please take under consideration that this is only an online support community. Offered advice is always an expression of individual opinions or experiences and shall never be taken as substitute for a professional in-person assessment!
This is a SFW community. Sensitive topics are allowed, but must be properly labeled.
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I wish i could quit my job, that'd let me focus on home life a lot more
I changed from academia to IT and started to actually be happy from there on out.
I tried IT, but computers are so frusturating. Not because I don't know how to use them, but because proprietary software vendors make the dumbest of decisions when designing their ui. I was actually looking into going into acadamia too lol
IT can be very different depending on the platform and how the work is organised (or not), work from home / office, etc.
Academia is basically universally chaotic, with a high level of freedom, independence and thus personal responsibility. In academia, no one is going to create structure for you, help you focus your energy or jump in to pick up the slack when you inevitably drop a project at 95% done for some new shiny thing.
In companies, it is very possible to find good teams that share the workload and responsibility, where a (neuro)diverse person can contribute with their strengths, while having their weaknesses compensated for by other team members with different skill and personality profiles.
I have worked this way across 3 teams over 5 years. Then again, I am apparently not severe enough for an ADHD diagnosis so YMMV. I definitely have worked with autists though.
P.S. I also hate shitty proprietary software and love open source. Currently working with Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres and Python and tolerating a thin layer of Windows shit through which I have to work. Oracle too, but not for long.
I love linux because if something is broken and I know the bug is simple I can just AUR pull the git version, modify it quickly, and install it as normal