What it’s like to work with ADHD AJ Willingham, senior culture writer at CNN, sits in her home office. CNN —Editor’s Note: AJ Willingham is senior culture writer for CNN. “When you move again, you are going to go downstairs, and you are going to collect the clean clothes from the dryer.” This is what I tell myself as I sit at my desk and stare out the window, paralyzed by the mounting weight of this simple task. It’s the end of the workday, and my 3:30 p.m. Adderall is coursing through my veins like blue lightning. If I don’t try to move now, I could find myself staring vacantly at a computer screen for the next two hours. I don’t want that. I want to go downstairs and gather the laundry that’s sitting in the dryer, because laundry is one of those things that I, a functional person, should be able to do with basic fluency. “And, while you’re there,” my brain adds, “you can get a trash bag.” A trash bag, to bring to my home office where I work as a se...
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