He might be ADHData

So much career advice boils down to "be more neurotypical," which isn't great advice unless you happen to be neurotypical.

If you've been "unable to follow advice" for years, & all you've felt is shame at not hacking it, I invite you to ponder whether the advice is just not right for you. #ADHData

Up late hyper-focusing on editing 3D parts because WHY NOT be running on not-enough-sleep tomorrow morning while live coding on the internet?! Love this for me ✨ #ADHData

There is no more productive time for me than after folks have gone to bed. I can work without interruption, no pings, no meetings to prep/debrief, nothing. But I do need some help getting there. My #ADHD brain often needs body-doubling in order to sort of co-regulate into focus-mode #ADHData #databs

As an easily-overstimulated person, one of the biggest improvements to my everyday life, work life, and marriage has been: being a headphones-only household + noise cancelling earbuds 😌

Watching TV? Headphones. Listening to music? Podcast? Call? Headphones! My house is silent at all times 🍃#ADHData

Anyone else do their hobbies late at night as a form of self-punishment because they worked all day 😂

I finished my work tasks at 12am. 1am is late enough to be done with hobby time, I think. Goodnight, fabric. Goodnight thread. #ADHData

Team #ADHData! And #AuDHData 👏🏻

I got some questions about how I use my chess timer, and a video is just easier, so here you go!

Also, it's been nice to see the overlap between my #ADHD crowd and my #databs crowd. I keep using the #ADHData hashtag to include both, and I hope others will use it, too!

#ADHData POV: I've worked too many hours already this week, but feel convinced I've done almost nothing 🙏🏻 Love this for me!

Writing down what I've done helps, but that becomes impossible while living in reaction mode. Every slack DM includes a bevy of new tasks to drop the ball on. #databs

The foolhardy #ADHD desire to dig yourself out of a hole and fix your entire life by getting EVERYTHING you're behind on done in one day

#ADHData

#ADHData - trouble starting a task:
Tool 1: For me, action begets action. If struggling to start a task (common for me), pretty much any body/brain momentum I can build helps me start, even if unrelated to my target task. Procrastivity? Yes.

🧵 1/n - shared in the spirit of #ExperienceNotAdvice

Is complaining about the time change too cliche? It's really messing with me (and countless other #ADHData people, too, I'm betting). I will be off-my-game until further notice. Can't wait to add jet lag to this in a couple of weeks 😅

Today is one of those days where I have stuff I need to do & it's stuff my ADHD brain can't latch onto, so I'm running through every tool in my toolbox to see how I can still make it happen. Love this for me, doing 10x the work for the same output. Hug an #ADHData person today, they're tired AF

My #ADHD brain doesn't feel time, so I capture it with a chess clock.

Player 1 on the left is "off the clock" & Player 2 on the right is "on the clock" - clearly my cat stickers are resting/playing vs business mode 🥹

Caveat: this only helps if I actually remember to press the buttons 😭 #ADHData

My husband produces a lot of instructional videos. My toxic #ADHData trait is telling him how inaccessible all of his videos are when he shows them to me 😂

The flashing text, the rapid transitions, the blinking lights, the random animations moving on the screen at all times, I cannnn't.