Click Gazette

ADHDers, I need your take 🍀 Viberie lets you swap ADHD coach personas (some are fun like the Zen Hamster).
Is this helpful or distracting?

How many of us see ourselves clearly?

And I don’t just mean at work.

For years I didn't know about my ADHD.

For years I saw me as almost good enough.

And late-identified ADHDers tell me this all the time

"I wish I'd known sooner."

The ripple effect of clarity isn't just backward.

You're letting go of things like:

🙈Decades of "why can't I just…"
🙈The job you forced yourself to want
🙈Relationships where you played small
🙈Shame disguised as self-improvement
🙈The version of you that had to prove worth

And you're also building toward:

💜A life you don't need to recover from.

The past doesn't disappear.

Late-identified ADHD means you're building the rest on purpose.

Consistency makes you a great employee.

Until it kills your best work.

For years I was in awe of this work pattern.
I'd be lost in meetings and late on all admin tasks.
Then pull all-nighters on side initiatives nobody asked for.

ADHDers are seen as inconsistent at work.

One day you're crushing a presentation.
The next, you let your messages pile up.
Your manager notices. You notice more.

But those tasks you're inconsistent at?

Are they low-stakes busywork?

Status updates. Weekly reports.

Stuff that keeps things running but doesn't 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 much.

And tell me this:

➡️when the work has stakes
➡️when there's a blocker to crack
➡️when you actually have autonomy

Do you become a different person?

🤩You move fast when it matters.
🤩You see connections others miss.
🤩You care deeply about getting it 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.

I'm sorry but how is that inconsistency?

ADHDers refuse to pretend admin tasks deserve the same energy as work that creates actual impact.

Here's an experiment:

🔎Audit your last "hyperfocus" workday.
🔎What made it different?

→ Creative problem-solving?
→ High stakes?
→ Freedom to do it your way?

ADHDers fail at mundane work because they excel at problems that matter.

Things we would say during performance reviews.

If we were honest 🤫

ADHD edition.

🏢Manager: You exceeded expectations this year.
✨ADHDer: Thanks, I cried in the car park 7 times.

🏢Manager: Your problem-solving is exceptional.
✨ADHDer: Panick before milestones really helps.

🏢Manager: You're so well prepared for meetings.
✨ADHDer: I have 8 backup note systems.
I also forgot this meeting existed until 10 min ago.

🏢Manager: Your attention to detail is impressive.
✨ADHDer: I do believe career ending typos exist.

🏢Manager: You handle pressure so well.
✨ADHDer: Deadlines are the only thing that works.

🏢Manager: You're such a reliable team player.
✨ADHDer: I can't say no...
And helping others is productive procrastination.

🏢Manager: How do you manage your time so well?
✨ADHDer: I do 90% of the work b/n 11pm and 3am.

🏢Manager: Your work quality is consistently high.
✨ADHDer: I spend all my free time in burnout recovery.

🏢Manager: Keep up the great work!
✨ADHDer: I don't know how.
Honestly. I've got no idea how.

🤭 Any of that sounds familiar?

Late-identified ADHDers get the best plot twist.

(no, you shouldn't have known sooner)

After 39 years of playing neurotypical...

Starting over as an adult ADHDer feels like a lot.

Do we dare look at that as freedom?

Because here's what "starting over" also means that:

💜 Boundaries become a virtue
💜 You're allowed to like yourself
💜 You learn to see rest as recovery
💜 You get to tell your inner critic off
💜 You can stop apologizing for existing
💜 Your energy patterns make sense now
💜 Panic productivity is not the only option
💜 The rejection sensitivity finally gets a name

Yes, there's grief.

And so there is relief.

Every productivity tip that didn't stick?
→ Becomes data about what doesn't work.

That quirky hobby graveyard?
→ Becomes proof of your creativity.

Every time the mask slips?
→ Becomes a step to more authentic ways.

You're exactly where awareness begins.

And starting aware beats starting early.

I'm not the only ADHDer scared to be seen trying.

(it broke the employee but won't crush the co-founder)

I spent 2 days on a feature that got scrapped.

Completely forgot about a partner call.

Couldn't find the docs I needed.

This is what building with ADHD looks like.

I spent years in corporate worrying that I'll get exposed.

For making a mistake, or just thinking in a different way.

So I learned to hide.

Building in public makes it hard to hide.

Every pivot looks like chaos.

Every missed promise is public.

Every "behind the scenes" overshares.

But here's what I'm learning:

The real risk is in building Viberie like I don't have ADHD.

Because we're ADHDers building for ADHDers.

✋ Raise your hand if this is you.

P.S. What's the ADHD thing you're most scared will show up in your work?

Got diagnosed with ADHD but feel like a fraud?

The irony → that doubt is classic ADHD.

When ADHD was mentioned during assessment,
1st thing I did after was look up "ADHD vs stressed".

Imposter syndrome in late-identified ADHDers is brutal.

Why that ruthless doubt?

🪫Others don't believe you're struggling.

🪫You were trained to dismiss your needs.

🪫The success came at a cost nobody saw.

🪫You kept hearing "try harder" for decades.

🪫You've achieved a lot and seem successful.

🪫You compare your worst to everyone's best.

🪫Good days = evidence that bad days = choice.

Here's what I'm inviting you to do:

➡️Go back to when you didn't know it was ADHD
➡️List things you used to beat yourself up about
➡️Now count up how many are textbook ADHD

ADHD is real.

Your lived experience proves it.

Comment 'ME' if you've googled 'am I really ADHD' ⬇️

P.S. What's the most obvious ADHD trait in you that you doubted?

Employer: We encourage out-of-the-box thinking

ADHDers: Wait, there was a box?

Employer: Please follow the established process

October is ADHD awareness month.

Ever been in a similar convo, yes or no ⬇️

P.S. I don't think any of my previous employers have taken part in ADHD awareness month.
You?

To ADHDers every deadline means panic.

(and it's not about imposter syndrome)

I lived this in corporate for years.

The fear was always there.

It was not the deadline.

Or the actual work.

But exposure.

That I didn't manage my time well and waited for panic to kick in before I can even start.

Then I realised that ADHD needs urgency to unlock action.

🧠 No urgency = no dopamine = no action

Not unreliable.

Just ADHD.

Things shifted a bit for me when I started naming this:
"My brain needs urgency to function."

I now lean on these supports:

💜 Fake deadlines (earlier, real consequences though)
💜 External accountability (tell another human)
💜 Body doubling (virtual sessions is fine)

The panic didn't vanish.

But the fear of being exposed did.

Let's not take deadline panic as a character flaw.

P.S. What's the fear underneath YOUR deadline panic?

Late-identified ADHD? You were too good to spot.

(that's not a compliment at all)

After years of trying to not be "difficult", I get it.

We learned early:

Be quiet

Don't complain

Make it easy for everyone else

That wasn't "mature for your age".

That was masking.

The "good girl" checklist:

→ Never asked for help (that's needy)
→ Never took up space (that's selfish)
→ Never showed struggle (that's messy)

The result?

You disappeared from view.

For ADHDers socialized to please, "good" meant invisible.

And invisible doesn't get diagnosed.

One way to start unmasking safely:

💜 Name one need today without justifying it.

Being "good" was safe but it wasn't you.

It's time to introduce yourself again.