Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho

SloMo,

I would recommend getting a full neuro-psychological assessment. This will diagnose you strengths and weaknesses. There may not be anything that can be done to improve your brain, but there may be many things you can do to work with it the way it is.

This assessment may also allow you to request accommodations for your neurological disabilities.

Also, you may want to look into how you react to stress. The stress of high power sales may put you over the edge. Maybe there is a way to reduce this stress load.

Your Dyslexia and other learning disabilities do not need to stop you. As you learned how to work around or with your Dyslexia, you may find ways to work around your other struggles.

I did telephone sales for many years with my specialty remodeling business. I learned that I would get flustered easily. I began to memorize the various details I needed to explain. This way, I was sure to include all of the specifics that the customer needed to know so I could close the sale over the phone.

There are tricks to memorizing information. I could explain some of them if you want me to.

It would help to understand your specific memory and cognitive deficits from the neuro-psych assessment.

I would wonder if rather than classic ADD, you have a difficulty with filtering the important information from the background or unimportant information. Most ADD is of the hyper active variety.

There is also a slowed processing disorder that makes it difficult to grab all of the information as it is presented. Like trying to get a drink out of a fire-hose. My brain struggles to process fast information and over stresses and I become reactive. This could be part of your social struggles.

Think of it as a 40 mph brain trying to live in a 60 mph world.

Just some ideas. I am not a professional. Just very experienced and inquisitive.