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[quote=Anonymous]You could think about teaching yourself coding or doing a coding boot camp. That's something where we have good ways of testing competence, and we need a lot of workers, so there's more room for being smart + working hard and showing results to matter, and where your spotty work history might be ignored. I'd still think about couching this in terms of "I had some medical issues which it took me a long time to resolve, but I'm better now." (And then obviously get yourself more-treated, so it's true.) Once you know a little, you can do your own projects and, if you want, offer to do some volunteer work so that you can show it off to prospective employers. ADHD is real common among programmers - the hyperfocus helps. But you really have to let go of this idea that you deserve to be in a certain place. There are lots of people who are smart and got their stuff together to work hard, so you are behind them. They learned skills that you didn't, and you need to catch up on. You might be able to progress quickly, you might not, but you will have to put in a lot of work and much of it will a) not be interesting and b) be work that people ten years younger than you are doing, and doing well. [/quote]

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