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Today saw the completion of my neurodiversity workplace assessment,¹ looking at how I can be better supported in the workplace and how I can personally work a bit smarter to cater for my traits.

We started it on the 2^nd but the assessor had a migraine so had to split the assessment to do it justice.

A big theme was workplace anxiety and constantly feeling judged or under pressure even if that's not the case.

The organisation I work for changed to using Teams a while back so as to reduce the amount of crap in your email inbox. It doesn't solve a problem, just moves it; and with the nature of Teams, everyone expects an instant response.

I can't context switch at the best of times, but things are so much worse when I'm bombarded with messages expecting an immediate reply. I frequently mark myself as 'Busy' or 'Do not disturb', but these are often ignored.

We discussed 'single task working' using a variation of the pomodoro technique and a 'manual of me' that provides people with an overview of my needs at work or in conversation.

One of my biggest problems is the mental overhead from the constant push-pull of autism on one side and ADHD on the other.

I wrote before about my issues with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) ² on the autistic side, but on the ADHD side I often require external prioritisation (tell me what you want me to do) or I get stuck deciding what to do. These conflict so it's finding a way to reconcile that.

So many other things conflict in my brain. It's exhausting, but once the assessment report has been finalised and sent through, we should be able to start making some allowances.