How To Ask For ADHD Accommodations At Work - Jodie Hill

How to request ADHD work accommodations and protect yourself if refused

1. A.Jodie Hill explains how lockdown prompted her to seek an ADHD assessment after noticing her mind racing despite reduced external activity, leading to a combined-type diagnosis and a positive medication titration experience despite high private costs.
2. B.She describes how medication helps alleviate many symptoms but not all, and how the medication shortage created anxiety, uncertainty, and practical disruption to concentration and daily functioning.
3. C.She outlines how to request workplace reasonable adjustments by describing how symptoms substantially affect work and day-to-day life, offering examples like flexible hours, task-dependent work-from-home, and ad hoc flexibility on harder days.
4. D.She discusses what to do if employers refuse adjustments, including raising a grievance for a paper trail, keeping a diary of events, and understanding potential routes like ACAS and tribunal claims for failures to adjust or victimization.
5. E.She argues for broader neuro-inclusive workplaces through manager training, accessible policies, psychologically safe wellbeing check-ins, inclusive meeting design, and normalization of tools like movement breaks, standing desks, and fidget items.