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Alex Partridge

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1565 total appearances

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ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Mm-hmm.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

If I had to decide what to wear every single day and have a new outfit, a new look, then I wouldn't have any capacity left in my head to think about managing this podcast and being creative.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

At Hogwarts, do they have to wear the same outfit every day?

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Maybe he learned it there.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Yes.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

If you watch the back catalog of episodes, you'll see that I wear this or have worn this probably six months.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Actually, to be fair, it rotates.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Every six months is generally a slight change, depending on seasons, probably.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Once I find something that I like, then that's it.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

It's like, okay, that job's done.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

I've made that decision.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

I don't need to think about that anymore.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

And that's what I'll wear for six months.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Flexible start times.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

So I think we should all accommodate for ourselves in whether it's in the workplace, enabling yourself to at least have the confidence to ask to start work maybe 10 minutes earlier or 10 minutes later than is the sort of standard time to come into the office.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

How many people have...

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

been forced to come into the office at the required start time.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

And because of that, it's put them in the firing line of the rush hour traffic or a really, really busy underground train or a packed bus.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

And you're completely overstimulated, completely derailed and disheveled mentally before you've even got to work.

ADHD Chatter
23 AuDHD Accommodations You Don't Know About (But REALLY Need)

Sometimes just advocating for a slightly flexible start time, 10 minutes either side, and you completely avoid the...