![]() If I’m presenting a plan of something questions throughout even if I may likely know the answer I ask them to get people engaged. Things like at the beginning of the meeting asking questions about the topic and reviewing acronyms/key words to gauge the groups depth of understanding to help me determine the level of detail to go into. ![]() I am engineering project manager so my meetings and topics are very corporate design and process focused. Hopefully it will get better after starting my medication. Writing down keywords before speaking has been a good strategy but not foolproof. I am a civil society professional so it also affects my job. It is very frustrating and it makes me feel both a bit lost and angry at myself. But if I am in a situation where I am unable to write or as it happens frequently, I just jump in to make my point (and I can't ever learn not to do that), then I often forget the point that I was making. If it is a more formal meeting I write down a few sentences to remind me of what I wanted to say. I sometimes start to speak in meetings.etc having a really good point to say and then I completely forget what it was and it is horrible because I end up making shit sentences and look ridiculous especially in cases where I have asked to speak to make my wonderful point. ![]() What you say happens to me quite frequently. I am 42 and I was diagnosed yesterday although I knew there was something wrong with me my entire life. Just tired of entering every meeting slightly panicked and leaving feeling like an amateur and an idiot. Like, how on earth could I look respected and competent if you can't elaborate things within your profession?ĭoes anyone else suffer from this? I'm worried this might greatly affect my life and career in many ways. I always end of leaving meetings having only said about 30% of what I would have liked and feel like I've made a fool out of myself. Every time we go to meetings with clients and it's my time to pitch an idea I've got loads of information on, I just lose my train of thought mid sentence, panic and go "so yeah, stuff like that you know". I'm well liked at my job and feel good at what I do, but both when I'm talking to my employees and especially customers I just can't focus enough. I'm almost finished my bachelor's degree and managed to land a job as a manager at a marketing agency. I've struggled a lot with the classic "you're really smart, why can't you just focus?" and after struggling with high school for many years, I finally got my act together. So I got my ADHD diagnosis after 25 which cleared a lot of things up about my childhood.
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