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I got to speak at Google yesterday for their Neurodiversity Week.

Definitely a career highlight to go from Googling things about ADHD and putting what I learned on YouTube at a time when almost no one felt safe disclosing their ADHD in the workplace…

…to speaking at Google during a neurodiversity WEEK in which employees are speaking openly about their challenges and their cafeteria is even making brownies in celebration of minds that work differently.

I know there’s still work to do, and…I am so proud of how far we’ve all come.

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Bunnyrabbitsoul

My mom always used to recommend your videos to me, and I am glad I began watching your videos, even though some of the thumbnails slogans made me confused or it was very bright blue colour, slowly I got used to your content style and I’ve become a Patreon subscriber and glad I’ve stuck around and that my mom reccomended your videos to me when I first began wanting to learn about my adhd diagnosis

Artemis Zeidman

I always feel like l’m being a Debbie Downer, but Google is not a true ally to the neurodivergent community. Specifically, they’ve been collaborating with the hate group Autism Speaks on their MSSNG genetic-analysis project for over a decade. While they insist its purpose isn’t to develop a cure or prenatal test for autism, that very much is its purpose. If you’re a software engineer or content creator, Google loves you because you make them money. If you’re not making them money, they see you as a problem in need of solving.

Ethan

That is so insanely cool! Hope it was tons of fun

Mr Thirteen

Since diagnosis and acceptance of the fact I definitely have some level of ADHD, I have excuses now for my actions. But that is exactly how it feels now. An excuse rather than a cognitive condition. It feels often like I am just making excuses rather than finding work around or deciding that is not for me because of x, y, or z. So glad you have done what you have so far, not only did you help yourself, you created a platform for others to discover hope. And now you are taking that and running with it!

Rochelle

What did you say at Google?

Daryl Ducharme

I wish I was in the office that day - though, I was in a lot of meetings that morning. So, I still would have missed it.