When I went quiet in your 1:1, I wasn't being difficult. I was masking so hard I forgot how to breathe.
Senior Associate · Law
A Content Series
What I wish my employer knew.
anonymous. honest. unedited.
A growing feed of insights from professional women with ADHD - shared anonymously, so the truth can finally be said out loud.
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Things they wish you knew.
I delivered the project three weeks early. You scheduled four more meetings to celebrate. Please. Just say thanks in writing.
Product Lead · Tech
Open-plan offices aren't a perk. For my brain, they're a low-grade emergency every day.
Strategist · Advertising
I am not 'all over the place'. I'm holding seven threads you don't know exist - and you're benefitting from all of them.
Director · Consulting
I forgot one email. You called me unreliable. I have flagged 200 risks this year and saved you twice that in spend.
Operations Manager · Healthcare
When I asked for noise-cancelling headphones HR said it might 'set a precedent'. I left six months later. So did the precedent.
Researcher · Pharma
Please stop saying 'just write a to-do list'. I have eleven. The lists are not the problem.
VP Engineering · FinTech
I am better in a deadline crisis than your whole leadership team combined. Stop punishing me for the random Tuesday.
Editor-in-Chief · Publishing
Hyperfocus isn't a trick I can summon for your status update. It picks me. I'd like a job that respects that.
UX Lead · Tech