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[quote=Anonymous]I have a middle schooler who has ADHD and is very intelligent. She has a remarkable amount of background knowledge in a variety of subjects and an incredible memory. Her mind works very fast and she can speed read. She hyper focuses on the things she finds interesting, but cannot focus on anything else. She has no executive skills. She also has no trust fund, so she will have to grind it out every day like every other working stiff when she’s an adult. “Magical Thinking” is very common with ADHD - but so is having the ability to engage in “higher level thinking,” while simultaneously being unable to handle life’s minutiae. You need to treat your ADHD. There are so many different medications now. They won’t all affect you the same way.

When you start a new job, is your mindset that it’s only a temporary thing, or that you’re just doing this job until something better comes along, or that you’ll just try it out and if you don’t like it you can always just quit? That’s not how successful people approach a job. You need to change your mindset. Working with a therapist is a critical part of doing that.

You really do need coaching, and you need to make an honest assessment of why you never hold a job for more than 6 months. Is it because you don’t like the daily grind and your trust fund allows you to escape it? Because you get bored easily? Because you fall behind in your work and don’t want to face the consequences? Because you think the kinds of jobs you can get are beneath you? Because you don’t like being told what to do? Because more is expected of you once you’re no longer a new employee, but you haven’t mastered the necessary skills to take on more responsibility? Are you too embarrassed to ask questions and let people know that you haven’t mastered the job yet? Do you flounder when it comes to office politics? You may need an executive skills coach or a career coach or both - but you won’t know what you need until you’re honest with yourself about what your issues are.

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