Diagnosis Didn't Change My Leadership. Ownership Did.

I left a role in part because one cross-functional relationship kept overstimulating me and I did not have a framework to understand my own reaction pattern. My ADHD diagnosis did not magically fix leadership, but it gave me language for what was happening and a path to own it before it kept damaging relationships. Before diagnosis, I would get intensely irritated in certain cross-functional dynamics, not with my direct team as much as in partner relationships where interaction style and pacing