I'm making an ADHD online course for developers. Any suggestions/questions are appreciated!

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Embrace your ADHD mind

For who: Software developers or other tech professionals with ADHD
For how long: Eight modules with quizzes and videos, each module contains short videos and simple assignments, everything is ADHD friendly!
What to expect:
Get to know the ADHD brain, and find your hidden talents.
Stop self-sabotaging cycles and start building a happy relationship with yourself.
Work more efficiently and improve your communication skills.

Syllabus
Introduction
Who I am
What will you achieve after learning this course
A brief introduction to ADHDers’ daily challenges
- Perfectionism and procrastination
- Poor working memory
- Rejection sensitive dysphoria
- Brief introduction about the tools that we provide in this course
- Understanding how willpower works
- Why exercising and sleeping well is important
- Self-awareness and self-love are key
- Finding our hidden talents and living our dream lives

Challenges that we face
- Lack of dopamine
- Oversensitive: Easily overwhelmed at work and life
- Poor working memory
- Time blindness
- Perfectionism
- Anxiety
- Rejection sensitive dysphoria

Why our challenges are also our superpowers
- Curiosity
- Open to changes
- Anxiety and futurist
- Over-sensitive makes you a fast learner
- The benefit of over-sharing
- Ready to change, and open to getting help.

Be aware of everything we do
- How our brain fools us
- Why do we procrastinate? How to find our true passion?
- Why do we give suggestions without being asked?
- Be imperfect: face our fears
- Lower our expectations
- Give ourselves time

Productivity
Understand willpower
- We are recharged every morning
- Good sleep helps us recharge
- Resting time isn’t wasted time
Executive functions
- Why stress is bad
- How exercises can improve our productivity
- Find the purpose of doing our jobs and understand things on different levels
- Be monotasking
- Working with others
- Prepare interview/exam: Learn with exam/questions

Self-care and self-love
- Why do we need self-care and love?
- How we treat ourselves is how others will treat us.
- We will love the world only if we learn to love ourselves first
- Are we secretly punishing ourselves?
- Invest into ourselves, prioritize life than work
- Recognize our efforts: It's time to forgive ourselves
- Quit friends that you no longer need

Communication
- How to do 1:1 with your manager
- How to help others to make changes and how to support them
- Good questions to ask in a conversation: Don’t project yourself

Live or work with an ADHDer
- How can a manager help a team member with ADHD
- How to help a family member with ADHD
- Why do parents need to be coached for ADHD instead of their children

Looking for help
- Should I try therapy or ADHD coaching?
- Can I self-coach myself?
- What are the tools available?
- What books/resources can I read?

Please feel free to leave comments or ask questions if you have any! It will be very helpful for me to make this course better!

#ADHD #mentalhealth

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  • This is fantastic! I would love to sign up for this course.
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    OP I have a question. Do you also get fired from your jobs because you have adhd?
    I feel I often go into my self sabotaging loops and end up getting fired from pretty much all jobs I have had.

    Also if you could add a section about your experience with medications.

    another idea I have is how to approach your employer for any accommodations and how to avoid bias.

    And also how to handle the guilt of taking medications. Some cultures treat mental health diseases as excuses and would say looking at you nobody can say anything is wrong, but you constantly feel there is.
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  • As someone with ADHD, I will call out the fact that you don't mention medication in the productivity section.

    Not that you are purposely doing it, but not mentioning medication as a possible productivity method gives the impression that you only resort to medication when you fail other methods. In other words, it gives the stigma that resorting to medication means you have personally failed.
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      I'm just an ADHD coach, not an MD, that's why I feel that I don't have the authority to talk about medication. Maybe I can just add a small section about my personal experience with medication. But because I don't take it very often I feel I don't have much to talk too. The goal of this course is to help people to better understand themselves and taking actions. It's not meant to cover everything, like parenting ADHD children, ADHD in relationships etc. Your opinion is valid though.
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  • couldn’t focus enough to read this.
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