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Help with communicating with neurotypical managers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Leilys@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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So, it's my first time working in a country that legally requires workplaces to accommodate neurodivergence. I have been upfront about my diagnosis since I joined.

It's my first admin-heavy role, and turns out, ADHD doesn't like double checking if every single field on a page was filled in correctly.

After being put on a PIP, I've been working on an autohotkey script that automates the clicking and navigation, and prompts me to enter data where needed. In theory, tihs means I don't miss out on anything as long as the script works fine, and when you don't do the clicking yourself, mistakes are easier to spot when you check.

I presented it to my manager (first time manager, woo.) today during the weekly review, and this was what they said: "My concern is, would you be able to follow the process and do the task if you were to lose access to this tool you have built?"

It seems like no degree of explaining that it's not that I do not know how to do the task correctly, my brain just loathes the finer details and would mean the work would be more prone to error will get through to them.

I will be resigning before the final check next week anyway, but just want some advice on how to respond to that question in the future.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Commiseration, not advice. This tool strikes me as being more of a universally useful tool than a disability aid. The manager’s failure to recognize that is their own fault. They should have recognized that it could help everyone who does this job instead of focusing on your disability. What they also don’t understand is that building the tool tickled the dopamine so it probably works well.

Commuting 5 hours a day is no way to live; I wish you all the luck in finding employment that works for you. PIP suck the confidence out of a person.

[–] Leilys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Thank you.

The tool does trigger little bits of dopamine - you manually enter maybe 50% less and it's done at a speed your eyes can barely track. As a supportive colleague said: "It's automagic!"

Its my 2nd PIP. In between the last role where I was managed out and this one, I had a team and manager that were chill with my shortcomings and appreciated the diversity of tasks I could take on and do well, since they had to review and sign off on it anyway, so mistakes weren't seen as much of a problem as it was flagged and corrected prior to anything going public. Probably helped that my manager was also likely ADHD and prone to her own snap changes in decisionmaking and small mistakes, so it felt more like a mutually supportive thing.

It really built up my confidence, so to have moved into a role that was new and had responsibilities that really were not to my advantage, and then put on a PIP again so quickly did hurt. I moved to a new country, so I had to leave my last role.

But I know that in the right environment and I can do well. Coupled with the anti-depressants that help manage the inherent ADHD anxiety and improve my executive function, I'm not lingering on my sadness for too long at least.