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[quote=Anonymous]Service jobs are the WORST for low processing speed. Ideally, they need to get hired for jobs where speed isn't of the essence, and when they graduate college, for their competencies in their area of expertise.

My husband has a high IQ, ADHD/HFA and processing speed issues. He has an MD, a PhD and Master's degrees in stats and comp. science fields. He works in a multidisciplinary branch of research that very few people can do. He did poorly in all the manual service jobs he held as a teen. On the first day of his shift as a delivery driver, he crashed the van.

My ADHD/HFA son tested at the 4th percentile for processing speed when he was in elementary. He has extended time even in college! He's shaping to become a version of his father, but in military strategy/national security/applied data science fields. He'll be a knowledgeable, thoughtful and painstaking analyst someday. US security will be in good hands with people like him. He walked dogs for neighbors as a teen and worked as a camp counselor, which worked out fine. No service jobs, he'd fail miserably.

I have low processing speed too, but not as severe as my son. I'm a research biologist. I worked in a pharmacy as a teen, and immeasurably preferred helping the compounding pharmacist at the back, rather than being at the cashier end, where customers stressed me out and I got so muddled.

There's hope, OP!

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