ADHD and Self-employment
Many ADHDers tend to be self-employed, because being their own boss, in charge of their own ways of doing and approaching things tends to work best. This could also be connected to the fact that people with ADHD have a huge sense of justice, also known as justice sensitivity. This means they can’t help but speak up when they disagree with something that doesn’t feel right to them.
Whilst this is an amazing trait to have, it can of course lead to conflict in the workplace when the delivery of those opinions isn’t carefully crafted.
Whilst being able to make decisions for your own business, your clients, your services and whatever you may offer can work better for someone with ADHD, there are some symptoms that might be harder to manage when being left to your own devices.
Performance Reviews and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Performance reviews, 360’s, appraisals, employee evaluations or whatever you want to call them. They’re standardised and already flawed to begin with, let alone for someone with ADHD. An exercise whose only goal is to put people into boxes, including literal ones. Measuring everyone against the same criteria, when you consider that everyone is different anyway, the added layer of complexity of ADHD symptoms can make these very hard to swallow.