Haveo · Networking when you are ADHD, autistic or dyslexic
Networking with ADHD
The hard parts are usually four: you interrupt, you lose the thread mid-sentence, you forget every name, and you never send the follow-up. Fix the follow-up first — it is the one that costs you something real, and it is solved by typing a name and one detail into your phone the second you walk away.
The follow-up is the one that costs you
- The other three are awkward in the moment and forgotten by everyone but you. The follow-up you never sent is the job, the client or the friend that did not happen.
- It fails for a reason that has nothing to do with discipline: by the time you are home, the name and the reason are gone. You cannot write a message you have no material for.
- So the note is not admin, it is the whole thing. Name, and one detail you would not find on their LinkedIn.
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Interrupting
You are not being rude, you are offloading a thought before it disappears. That is a real constraint and it has a physical fix: put the thought somewhere else.
Type three words into your phone, or hold one finger against your leg. Saying "sorry, go on — I want to come back to something" also works, and most people read it as interest.
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Losing the thread halfway through a sentence
Say so plainly. "I have completely lost where I was going with that" is a normal sentence that costs you nothing, and the other person almost always supplies the thread.
The alternative — talking on while searching for the point — is the thing that actually reads badly.
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Names
Use it once immediately: "good to meet you, Priya." Then type it into your phone within a minute. Do not rely on repeating it in your head, because the next voice will take it.
If it is already gone, see the page on forgetting a name. Asking again on the same night is completely ordinary.
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Set an end time before you arrive
Hyperfocus and a crash both live in the same evening. Deciding when you leave, before you are inside, is what stops the night ending on whichever one arrives first.
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Rehearse it before you walk in.
Haveo builds your intro, lets you practice out loud with an AI coach, and keeps your notes one tap away in the room. Free on iPhone and iPad.
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