Comment by pilgrim0

I don’t recall a single piece on the subject that attempted to define productivity. I’m saying this because my own conflicts with the condition taught me that work is not something so simplistic as for the same strategies to be effective in all environments. What in fact has worked for me, is not exactly to adapt myself to the work, but rather to adapt the work to my limitations. I keep realizing that productivity has many forms. Merely being able to sit and yield artifacts at a high velocity is not necessarily productive. When on pharmaceutical amphetamine, I’m perfectly “productive”, but most of the times the quality of the results are poor. In comparison, the work I yield when not on medication, although performed completely irregularly, tends to be much more high quality. So it must be acknowledged that productivity has no intrinsic relation to efficiency. It’s much more important to be efficient than “productive”. All in all, it’s important for folks with ADHD to treat themselves better and find a compromise when dealing with the societal expectations placed on them. I honestly find bizarre some strategies people employ to cope with work, flirting the inhumane, like a self-inflicted dystopia.