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Remote workplaces. Remote work allows people with ADHD to lean into their strengths of hyperfocus, have more privacy for sensitive conversations, and control their environment.
As one CNN writer manages her ADHD, she finds her learning differences spark creativity and help her connect with her audience.
People with ADHD tend to have issues across several areas of life—work, academics, and relationships—and hearing how things are going in those areas can be enlightening for doctors, she says.
A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011–2012 found 11% of children between the ages of 4 and 17 were reported to have ever received a health care provider diagnosis of ADHD at some point (15% of boys and 7% of girls), [182] a 16% increase since 2007 and a 41% increase over the last decade. [183]
While people with ADHD often struggle to initiate work and persist on tasks with delayed consequences, this may not be evident in contexts they find intrinsically interesting and immediately rewarding, [17] [26] a symptom known as perseverative responding, [27] or colloquially as hyperfocus. [28]
Hallowell has been treating people of all ages with ADHD since 1981, and has stated that he has dyslexia [6] and ADHD, [7] which is self-diagnosed. [8] His approach to the condition uses a strength-based model—developed with Driven to Distraction co-author Dr. John Ratey—that is based on the tenets of positive psychology and takes a more holistic view of ADHD, rather than seeing it purely ...