Having worked for people who (even if they didn’t do so intentionally) treated me differently after I told them I had ADHD, with my current job, I’m seeing how things go not disclosing my ADHD to my manager or coworkers explicitly, but mentioning what is a weakness or strength for me. This is in a work culture where the managers are managing a bunch of researchers (aka nerdy specialists 🙃), and so it is accepted that not everyone will be good at everything, and that’s ok–we can choose what of our strengths we want to build on more, choose what of our weaknesses we want to work towards growing in, and choose what weaknesses we are willing to let stay a weakness (and ask someone else to do–fortunately it’s a large workplace). So I’ve approached this by telling my manager or coworkers that I am, say, not great at estimating how long a given task will take, or telling them that I am great at organizing projects that I find especially compelling (and not as great at organizing things that I don’t find as interesting), or that sometimes I’ll bounce back and forth between tasks but I can still get things done. So far, that has been received pretty well. It’s not that I want to assume that my coworkers and manager will treat me differently if I tell them I have ADHD–I don’t know whether they have pre-conceived notions about ADHD, and if I tell them explicitly, it’s a bell I can’t un-ring. But it’s absolutely a personal choice about who to tell, under what circumstances, and how to present the info. Best wishes in whatever you decide to do! ❤️
Debating disclosing my diagnosis with work
I’ve been going back amd forth on if I should share my diagnosis with my manager and hr. (hr really just to cover my ass not for accommodations)...