There is nothing to enjoy about having ADHD any more than you would "enjoy" having herpes. I thought I was just depressed for 20 years and had a hard enough ti

There is nothing to enjoy about having ADHD any more than you would "enjoy" having herpes. I thought I was just depressed for 20 years and had a hard enough time trying to cover that up. I work in an industry that is built on trust through repeated execution and excellence - Management Consulting It's thinking work. Any mental "impairment" could reasonably be classified as effecting that consistent repeatability with certainty. Dysregulation of attention and emotion means your ability to execute is not always in your control, and sometimes you will take longer, or make mistakes, or sometimes you hit it right out of the park... but too far - you are seen as being inconsistent. Your ups and downs are much more frequent and often in severity than the general population (that's what makes it a disorder) A lot of people partition you in the "too-hard" to deal with pile. They don't know what to do with you, how to use you effectively. Covering up for this, masking, takes a huge amount of additional effort and drains you physically and mentally. Yes my organization champions the importance of diversity, even neurodiversity because diverse teams work better and deliver better results. Yes I have access to some accommodations, but my work is project based, I get pulled onto things by others. If they subconsciously have a bias towards putting me on something because they are afraid of that inconsistency when the stakes are already high, then I'll likely be looked over. Not everyone, but many. You're a risk. A liability. I have a friend. An incredible lawyer. Here undiagnosed ADHD and diagnosed depression meant she had to take some time off due to being completely burnt out. She disclosed it to her employer. She was pressured into signing an NDA before later being fired because the partner couldn't "trust" or "deal with" her not always being available. The NDA meant that she couldn't speak publicly about it or sue her former employer for wrongful dismissal. It ruined her career.