20/09/2025
How ADHD gets people fired
We’re unable to ignore our strong sense of social justice.
Living with ADHD make you sensitive to rejection, it feels like you’re always tiptoeing through a minefield, not knowing where any of the mines are and not knowing when the next explosion will happen.
When someone experiences life this way, it makes them extremely empathetic to others who live life in the same way. We know how painful a criticism feels and we wound’t wish that pain on anyone else. We can’t, therefore, standby and watch as others are criticised unfairly, our internal sense of justice won’t allow it.
We have to say something, and our impulsivity makes it impossible to resist that urge.
This can create problems in the workplace because what’s right and what’s wrong is subjective and difficult to prove. Our intuition to spot injustice, which is built on years of storing patterns of being treated unfairly, is difficult to use as justification for our call outs, because most people won’t understand how accurate our intuition is.
When people with RSD see unfairness, they call it out for what it is and it gets them in trouble because people don’t like people who have an internal BS radar.
Agree?
