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Kids with ADHD become adults with ADHD
Entrepreneurs & Career Professionals
Entrepreneurs, business executives, career professionals, and creative professionals who have ADHD / ADHDish may experience reduced quality in their work productivity and overall work performance because of:
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Difficulty with planning, prioritizing, organizing, and/or completing tasks.
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Ease of distractibility making it hard to maintain long-term focus during meetings or while working on projects.
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Issues with time management cause a habit of being late to work, meetings, or completing required tasks.
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Impulsiveness leading to costly to making decisions or not thinking through choices.
These ADHD / ADHDish problems at work can make a person unreliable and therefore they may not be considered for promotions, receive negative client reviews, or have difficulty maintaining a job or getting good references.
Athletes & Performing Artists
Athletes, actors/actresses, singers, and musicians who have ADHD / ADHDish may have a decline in their performance because of:
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Difficulty with sustaining focus during training sessions or games.
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Difficulty with impulsiveness leading to poor decision-making and mistakes in their performance and off the court (field or stage).
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Difficulty with organization and time management, therefore, making it challenging to show up to places on time or losing or forgetting important things.
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Difficulty with stress or anger management and coping strategies.
These issues often have significant financial consequences that stem from a decline in ticket sales, fines, legal issues, and losing potential contracts.
Relationships
Whether it's a parent-child relationship, friendship, dating or married couple being ADHD / ADHDish can lead to conflicts that stem from:
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Ineffective and miscommunications that can present as distracted, not listening, unknowledgeable or unintelligent, omission of information, disregarding of others, or dishonesty.
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Impulsive decisions that negatively affect the other person in the relationship.
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Difficulty self-regulating emotions therefore leading to impulsive behavior resulting in relationship conflicts.
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Disorganization and lack of time management that leads to forgetfulness, losing things, missing appointments, lack of work-life balance, feeling overwhelmed, being unreliable, and stress.
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Restlessness making it difficult to concentrate, be still, or relax.
ADHD / ADHDish problems have the potential to strain or even break relationships.
