From @adaptivemindset on TikTok
An adaptive mindset for work that wasn't built for your brain.
Practical ideas on careers, focus and neurodivergence from an AuDHD engineer — each short video written up as an article, with the tools to try it yourself. Learn, adapt, grow.
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Not every special interest is really yours
Lego holds up. Bikepacking probably does. Hiking? I'm less sure — and post-diagnosis, I'm learning to tell the difference.
I didn't need silence — just the world turned down 30%
I only put my studio headphones on to check the audio. Turns out passive muffling beats noise-cancelling for sensory overload.
When everything's worth doing, ask: who's waiting?
Five legitimate options, real money on the list, and I'd done none of it. Regular prioritising fails when nothing on the list is a bad idea.
Stop assessing your strengths. Go find the evidence.
When something's easy for you it doesn't feel like a skill — it feels like the baseline. Three places to find the strengths masking hid.
If you can't picture your hands doing it, it's not a task yet
"Work on my career" isn't a task — it's a category. "Send one application" isn't either; it's five tasks in a coat. The real step: open the job ad.
The invoice nobody mentions on your 'superpowers'
Pattern recognition and problem-solving get sold as superpowers. The price isn't just the masking — it's the skills you never learned instead.
One lane, seven days
ADHD overwhelm isn't too little motivation — it's too many open plans, none of them getting a next action. Pick one lane for seven days.
Don't start a conversation — comment on a thing
I'm autistic and good at talking to strangers — I only found the method by watching myself use it. The shape: notice, comment, loop, leave.