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After being diagnosed 3 years ago, the improvements are that I now have a tool to help me get things done, I can set expectations more sensibly with others that respect me, and I at least have a framework for setting my expectations of myself. It hasn't helped me keep a job yet, in part because my last employer didn't accept that I couldn't be expected to respond to customers in a timely manner or that I really couldn't tolerate the open office eating sounds. It hasn't yet helped me recover from burnout which I have a tendency to succumb to, and I'm now more than a year out of work for the 2nd or 3rd time this decade. It doesn't help me respond to stress in the way that society is kind of set up to take advantage of. No amount of external pressure will influence me to do anything differently than I'd do otherwise, unless I'm able to internalize a need to do it. As soon I feel like an external pressure is arbitrary, the structure around it collapses. It hasn't helped my horrendously offset sleep cycle, memory (which might be negatively impacted also by concussions or whatever else). It does help me understand how I get into conversations with random people on the street that can last for hours, and my partner isn't all that surprised anymore.



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