ADHD programmers, do you guys reveal your disability on job applications?

Posted by NoOutlandishness00@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 11 comments

I assume most of us opt out in fear of being discriminated against, but i was wondering if any of u guys were candid about it. Or if you were candid about it during the interview process

edit: i was just curious, didnt expect to be downvoted to the shadow realm

Edit 2: woo out of the shadow realm

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abandonplanetearth@reddit

Hell the fuck no, even if it makes me a better programmer (sometimes).

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TurtleNamedMyrtle@reddit

How does ADHD help you to be a better programmer?

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Not Op, but when I catch a hyper fixation wave, I can get a week or more of work done in a day. I have learned to not push all those commits out at once. I can drip feed them out at a normal pace to keep my pressure levels manageable.

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Dionakov@reddit

Just don't forget to rebase to change the date before pushing

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lurkin_arounnd@reddit

If people are digging through the timestamps of your commits, run

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DeepTswape@reddit

And start job hunting again? Please

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Sorry-Balance2049@reddit

I have ADHD and am staff eng at FAANG. My ADHD is not a disability at all. Anecdotally, I have only met one person ever whom I would consider “disabled” by the severity of their ADHD (and even then, they had other contributing disability factors). ADHD is rampant in my family and every one of my family members who claim disablement are straight up making excuses.

Use medication, seek therapy, you very likely have a high functioning brain and are perfectly capable of doing your job.

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ppss96@reddit

That's great. I wish to follow a similar career.

I also suspect I have ADHD and will be getting a diagnosis soon.

Please can you let me know which medication you take, how frequently you take it and if there is any side effects/ crashes you need to deal with.

Your response would be extremely helpful.

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