I got fired for this! Even though it was my lunch break, I was off the clock, and I have a chronic illness that makes working an 8-10 hour day exhausting, I was fired since I was “setting a bad example for the junior staff”.
Guess who got an EEOC/disability settlement.
Great tip, this goes in the toolbox. With all the feedback I’m getting so far, I’m feeling optimistic!
This is great! True, Lemmy is often staunchly anti-AI, but I think this is exactly what AI should be used for - enhancing people’s lives and helping them overcome difficulties. I upvoted you with an extra hard mouse click to compensate.
I wish I had thought of this before - I can communicate clearly but it can be so hard for me to be concise. I wouldn’t use it for everything, but for “big ticket item” conversations, definitely. It could help us get over the communication difficulty hump, then we can start handling more on our own. Do you have any recommendations for particular models, methods you’ve found useful, or the like?
I like the strategy, it seems like you’re tying everything up at the end instead of ping ponging back and forth, which I’ve been guilty of. Thank you!
Yeah, she was diagnosed years before I met her. Her ADHD is quite severe, not gonna lie. I used to have similar issues, where I’d forget details so I’d bounce back and forth between events in a narrative or I’d think I’d said something but didn’t so my listener didn’t realize I was referring to an unintentionally internal comment.
I got communication and organization skills hammered into me over a decade in science, but that isn’t her jam.
Edit: if it helps, here’s a decent article I just found about the issue. It’s apparently not uncommon. https://connectedspeechpathology.com/blog/the-difficulty-organizing-thoughts-into-words-adhd-adults-guide
I like the outline idea! I suspect it’s the abstraction that makes conversation difficult. A physical, manipulatable, visual reminder might help. You’ve given me an idea for like… a dry erase worksheet.
Unfortunately, she’s already medicated - the maximum daily adderall dosage plus strattera. I think she’d do a lot better if she added in lifestyle changes like improving her sleep hygiene, exercising, meditating, reminder systems, etc (that’s what keeps me okay), but we need to get where I can discuss that with her without the conversation quickly going off the rails.
Racisms per minute (RPM)?
We settled for wages at my previous salary for the time I was unemployed, the bonus I would have received, and the stock I was to be awarded literally the day after they terminated me. We think the latter two were the real drivers for my termination.