What's happening
ADHD and reasonable adjustments is something plenty of people never ask about. Office noise wrecks your focus, or spoken instructions vanish by the time you're back at your desk, but asking feels awkward, so you just try harder. Acas says being neurodivergent will often count as a disability under the Equality Act 2010, which means employers have to make reasonable adjustments. It also says you don't need a diagnosis to be treated as disabled under the law.
How to get moving
Write down two or three specific things that trip you up at work, and next to each one a change that might help. Keep it practical: "Background noise makes it hard to focus, so could I use headphones or a quieter desk?", "Big jobs are hard to start, so could we break them into clear steps?" or "Deadlines creep up on me, so could we have a ten-minute check-in each morning?" Acas gives all of these as examples for neurodivergent workers.
Put your request in an email to your manager or HR, so there's a written record, and ask for a short meeting to talk it through. Before you finish, agree a date to look at how the changes are working.
Important tip
If cost becomes the sticking point, look at Access to Work. It's a government grant that can help pay for things like specialist equipment, assistive software or a job coach, it names ADHD as a condition that can qualify, and you don't have to pay it back. You need to be 16 or over, in paid work or starting within 12 weeks, and living and working in England, Scotland or Wales. Northern Ireland has a different system.
This is lived-experience content. It is not a promise that a particular idea will work for everybody.