Handling ADHD while programming
This is kind of an off-topic question, but I thought some of you might have an interesting point of view / experience, or some resources to share.
I have a friend who is very new to developing and who started working at my company. I'm basically giving him time to learn and teach him a lot about web dev myself.
He is very motivated, but has days where he just can't function due to not being able to focus. On these days no progress is notable at all.
He is very reflected about it, and we have a high amount of communication, but I am not sure on how to handle these situations.
He is 29 btw, so not a "youngling" anymore. So motivation or other priorities like gaming, partying... is definitely not the problem.
Do you have experience working with people having ADHD, and how do you handle it?
Or do you even have ADHD yourself and can give some firsthand tips on how to handle these situations / how to pull yourself out of it / what other can do to help you / ...?
I have a friend who is very new to developing and who started working at my company. I'm basically giving him time to learn and teach him a lot about web dev myself.
He is very motivated, but has days where he just can't function due to not being able to focus. On these days no progress is notable at all.
He is very reflected about it, and we have a high amount of communication, but I am not sure on how to handle these situations.
He is 29 btw, so not a "youngling" anymore. So motivation or other priorities like gaming, partying... is definitely not the problem.
Do you have experience working with people having ADHD, and how do you handle it?
Or do you even have ADHD yourself and can give some firsthand tips on how to handle these situations / how to pull yourself out of it / what other can do to help you / ...?
