Five sentence summary In most situations, I don't disclose my ADHD. I find the risk of harm to myself is greater than the potential rewards, and I can often find ways to manage without specifying that I have ADHD. Discrimination comes from all sorts of people and I've watched too many people be hurt professionally or socially when they've disclosed it's ADHD they have. On the other hand, disclosing means finding community, being a role model, and sharing your unique perspective in a world that often thinks ADHD only means hyper white boy who can't sit still in his chair. Everyone's experience is different. Everyone's level of support, position, privilege, comorbidities, and care is different and my experiences may not translate. These are simply my thoughts based on my experiences.
People act completely differently when I disclose that the disability I refer to is ADHD. Sometimes they connect behaviors and issues I have, like remembering things without writing them down, to ADHD. Other times, they advise me to use a planner, make lists, or just remember to eat dinner, as if it is all that simple. There are so many misconceptions about ADHD circling, and I don't want educating the world, my colleagues, my department, my friends, etc. to be my full time job. The truth is, it would become my full time job for me personally. I would take every opportunity to do a training, speak to a class of incoming disabled students, set up a mentoring program for ADHD students, and any other opportunity that was thrown my way. There is a lot of work to be done at nearly every institution and at every level, and I would try to help every ADHD person I could. That's just the way I function.
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