i went through this exact thing at an employer  as a newly minted tech lead i was expected to write tasks for other devs in the form of microsoft team foundation tickets  problem is the ui of that program is terrible for an adhder  lots of go here do this click here enter a datum click there enter a datum crap what was i just doing  its too tedious to be easy and not hard enough to be interesting  plus as someone with executive dysfunction its hard for me to direct myself to do something now im having to prethink and break down tasks for others  i think there was a lot of peter principle at play getting promoted into that position  what would happen is that my managers  more senior co-workers would say things like i know you could just sit down and crank out creating all these tfs tasks in a day if you just focused  and the problem is yes i could - only on the last day under duress of literally being told i would be fired if i didnt get those done by close of business  after each time that that worked theyd say see that wasnt so bad now why cant you just do that but not at the last minute  i hadnt yet gotten diagnosed at that point so even i couldnt tell why i was like this  i just knew i was miserable and constantly stressed - 9 out of 10 days from trying to make my brain work and appearing to be doing nothing and the 10th day from working like a maniac to catch up  when i finally got diagnosed with adhd and on stimulant meds it was like when i got glasses for the first time and realized its not normal for everything to be blurry  you mean normal people can just sit down to do something - and just do it   without needing a figurative gun to the head  it was the most amazing thing