The AuDHD Boss: Neurodiversity at Work with Brett Whitmarsh AuDHD at Work: What Kind of Employee Do I Want to Be?
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Feb 13, 2026 A personal recount of stepping into work while fully AuDHD and what changed after a late diagnosis. He explores masking in new roles, balancing ADHD-driven novelty with autism-driven routines, and which meetings actually matter. The conversation covers rebuilding workplace community remotely and redesigning jobs to match AuDHD needs like collaboration, structure, and recovery.
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How Masking Shaped Early Career Transitions
- Brett describes always masking at new jobs and reconstructing a version of himself to fit each role.
- He learned this pattern from switching schools and would deliberately ask questions and reveal only small parts of himself while observing.
Diagnosis Reframed How Work Needs Are Understood
- A late autism and ADHD diagnosis made Brett re-evaluate how each condition shows up at work and in recovery.
- He now separates ADHD needs (novelty, chaos) from autism needs (order, routines) to understand triggers and supports.
ADHD Generates Chaos Autism Creates Order
- Brett notices ADHD often generates chaos and ideas while autism organizes that chaos into structure.
- In prior roles he deliberately combined ADHD adrenaline with autism-created order, which fueled success but also deep burnout needing long recovery.