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What you do for a living is not who you are, especially if you have ADHD.

Despite academic ability, women with ADHD frequently earn less and work below their apparent potential.

The ADHD brain may be better suited to flexible, physical roles than other career paths.

Has anyone ever said something so insulting to you that you were left seething with rage? The worst insults, the ones that really cut you to the quick, are the ones that deep down, you know might have a kernel of truth to them, like:

"See! That's why you need to study hard at school, so you don't end up doing that job."

"See! That's why you need to study hard at school, so you don't end up doing that job."

It happened to me when I was working as cabin crew, cleaning up a mess in the first-class cabin. A female passenger leaned across the aisle to her young son and said loudly: "See! That's why you need to study hard at school, so you don't end up doing that job."

Ouch. I could have cried. My life was being used as a cautionary tale; Timmy better work hard at school or he'd end up...shock horror...working as a trolley dolly! The truth is, being cabin crew was without doubt the best job I've ever had. Even more fun than my current role as an ADHD researcher. I've travelled the world, partied in every city on earth, and gotten paid to do it. But there's no doubt it's one of........

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