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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Thank you for sharing.  I have an ADHD kid with low processing speed who scores high in math but struggles in any subject that requires nontechnical reading.  This gives me hope.

I have ADHD and low processing speed, and I've done well in the law. I've always sought out great paralegals and am an early adopter of AI assistant technology.  I loved policy debate, which is very high-speed and requires intense focus.  My ADHD kid loves chess, including speed chess.  [b]Processing speed is only an issue if you're having trouble engaging in a subject.[/b] [/quote]

Processing speed can vacillate in this way for people with ADHD because of the ADHD, but some people do have slow processing speeds along with ADHD, and not simply because of the ADHD.

Given that OP’s number is so specific, OP is likely getting that number from an evaluation which would have been able to discern whether processing speed is generally low or vacillated widely during testing.[/quote]

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