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Networking when you are ADHD, autistic or dyslexic
A networking room asks you to filter noise, hold new names in your head, read a badge across a table and improvise a sentence, all at once. If that is hard for you, the room is the problem, not your effort. Write your sentences down, plan to leave early, and take notes on your phone instead of trying to remember.
What the room is actually asking of you
- Filter a loud space down to one voice. Hold three new names long enough to use them. Read small print on a badge at arm's length.
- Produce a fluent sentence about yourself with no warning. Track when a conversation is ending. Do all of it for two hours without a break.
- Most advice about networking skips every one of those and goes straight to "be confident". That is why it does not help.
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Decide the shape of the night before you go
- Pick an end time. Not a hope, a time. Leaving at your planned time having spoken to two people is the night working, not the night failing.
- Pick one goal. Two real conversations, or one specific person. A goal you can finish is a goal you can stop chasing.
- Plan the break. Five minutes outside, at a decided point, not when you are already past it.
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Write the sentences down
Improvising is the expensive part. A sentence you have said out loud once costs almost nothing to say again; a sentence you are composing in a loud room costs everything you have.
Three pieces are enough: who you are, two questions you will ask, and one line for leaving. Say each one aloud before you go.
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Take the notes, do not carry them
Type the name and one detail into your phone the moment you walk away. Nobody minds, and everybody assumes you are answering a message.
This is the single change that fixes the most: the follow-up you cannot write is almost never a writing problem, it is that the detail is gone.
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What Haveo does with this
Haveo is built on the assumption that the preparation is the hard part. You write your sentences, practice them out loud with an AI that is not judging how it comes out, and keep them one tap away in the room. The notes and the reminder to follow up live in the same place.
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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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