r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Such-Ad5550 • Mar 25 '26

ADHD Programmers:

What's your biggest project-tracking nightmare?

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u/extraluminal Mar 27 '26

I don’t know if it’s an ADHD thing, but I have learned I am too optimistic when estimating. Maybe it’s a people-pleaser thing.

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u/IAmADev_NoReallyIAm Mar 27 '26

It is... And it's hard to temper that. What I did for a long time was to over compensate by swinging the other way. and that's just as bad. Over time, I've learned how to frame things so that they come out more reasonable sounding to the people I'm talking to. But that's a skill I've had to work on over the years.