I feel you. I have adhd as well. I have routines when I code which some people don’t like or can’t follow and that caused problems during interviews. When I do pair coding today with people I worked with for a while now that’s not a problem because they understand my style and they don’t mind because they are good people.

But most people don’t understand why I do the thing I do and start saying no and that’s not supposed to go there and why aren’t you writing a test first? Because I don’t want to. I will arrive at your conclusion don’t worry just please give me time. I will move this code around don’t worry about it. There you see now it’s all fine. But they don’t understand that I just want something to work fast and then I’ll refactor and make it nice.

And then they start demanding and that’s when my flow breaks and then I do shit work because they force me to accept their views.

Ofc granted those are shitty workplaces but chances are I’m not gonna work with the person interviewing me and also when you are looking for a job without a job then you kinda don’t care and want it make it work somehow.

Bah.