40 AuDHD Meeting Scripts for Check-Ins, Calls and Surprise Invites

40 AuDHD Meeting Scripts for Check-Ins, Calls and Surprise Invites

You asked for the agenda and still couldn't sit through it

You asked for the agenda. You got the agenda. You still lost the thread twelve minutes in, agreed to something you can't remember, and spent the rest of the afternoon recovering from a meeting that could have been an email.

This is 40 things to do about it. Ten before you walk in, ten for getting through the hour itself, ten sentences to say word for word, five for the calls and invites that appear out of nowhere, and five for the ten minutes afterwards that decide whether any of it counted.

A few of the forty

Ask how long it will be, not just what it's about

Decide your one job before you go in

Sit where you can leave

When you've lost the thread: "Could you go back a step? I want to be sure I have it."

When you're put on the spot: "Let me think for a second and come back to you."

When a quick chat appears with no agenda: "What's it about, so I can come prepared?"

When you agreed to something you can't do: undo it the same day, and the words to do it with

None of the scripts explain your brain to anybody. They're the same sentences a very organised colleague would use, which is exactly why they work whether or not anyone at your job knows anything about you.

The back page is the emergency one: the eight items that work with no warning and no preparation, for when it starts in two minutes.

Written for people employed in an office or hybrid role.

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