Telling your boss about your adhd. Good or bad?

Genavee
Good Morning, The move is over and there is never any reason to dwell in the past when we make a choice as life moves forward. Is it a bad thing to have told your boss - no ? I feel it is a personal choice.

Kindly,
Kitt

Genavee,
Adhd has both positive and negative attributes. As an employer or manager, it is his job to match your skills and talents to what he needs done. The more he knows, the better he can use you. I think it is great that you let him know.
I managed two people with adhd at my last job. They were very good at perceptual problem solving, hyperfocusing on projects with fast deadlines, and keeping everyone's spirits up with their humor. I knew it was unrealistic of me to expect them to be successful with linear minutae such as number crunching costs or project projections or reminding people of deadlines so other people were given those responsibilities. Adhd people have so many strengths. I always value them as team members.
I don't view adhd as a handicap just a condition with some cognitive blind spots. The blind spots can become a handicap if you are unaware of them and don't find ways to compensate.
My adhd children were given all sorts of cognitive tests to determine what their strengths and weaknesses were. The therapist then worked with them at learning to depend and build on their strengths and discover their greatest weaknesses.
For example:
Both of them have no natural awareness of the passage of time so they use timers and alarms to keep track. One of them turned out to have amazing pattern recognition skills. He is a systems management analyst. The other one, 18 years old, has remarkable spatial recognition skills. This has made geometry and physics a breeze for him. He also never gets lost no matter where we are.
SZm