I just recently realized how the auditory processing disorder (APD) that comes with my ADHD influences the way I work.

• I dislike pairing sessions (very superficial explanation: two people have a call and one shares their screen and does the work while the other observes, comments and/or guides the first one). While I totally get what I am told during the meeting, I will have forgotten 20% of it right afterwards and the other 80% are not in the correct order but floating around my mind. This is a bit like the type of dyslexia, where people have little or no problems reading words but difficulties to connect them to sentences and get the meaning of it.
• I don’t like to ask people for directions when I have to go somewhere, because of the exact same reason. I mix up the individual steps of the route or I forget them.
• Same reason: video courses don’t work for me very well.
• I very much prefer written documentation or instructions. They don’t need to be detailed (aka micromanaged), but I need bullet points. First because reading is processed differently and second, because I can go through the list as often as I like or need. And believe me, I will. Because otherwise the inattentative part of ADHD hits.
• I take notes in meetings. Lots of them. I work through a whole block of post-its in two weeks. But I try not to take notes (or just key points in a few words) while in a 1:1, because as a manager writing in a 1:1 influences the meeting atmosphere negatively. Right after the meeting I have to put the sticky notes into real text in my notetaking app (LogSeq), or I will have forgotten what the shorthand notes mean.

I am not hampered in my tasks, the routines and tools I have in place often make me more productive than others.