As an engineer for 10+ years with pretty severe ADHD (unmedicated, I cannot usually even read more than a few pages of a book before either losing focus or feeling drained) I have always been aware of how much my performance fluctuates based on the cognitive load of dealing with the code I am currently working with, and how it is displayed. I half-jokingly tend to describe it to people as having a "small brain buffer" where while I can understand (and design and implement) very complex things, it is easy for me to flounder when debugging if I feel unable to visually see or mentally hold the entire problem in my head at once. This is especially true if the code isn't mine.
It is for this reason that I try to write what I feel is very obvious or self-explanatory code, why I try to keep functions/modules as simple as possible and ideally not longer in length than I can see on my screen at once (when possible), and why I almost exclusively join small/new teams who don't yet have an enormous codebase that I'll have to wrap my head around. I am never done tweaking the UIs of the editors I use to maximize my ability to work around these things.
It is for this reason that I try to write what I feel is very obvious or self-explanatory code, why I try to keep functions/modules as simple as possible and ideally not longer in length than I can see on my screen at once (when possible), and why I almost exclusively join small/new teams who don't yet have an enormous codebase that I'll have to wrap my head around. I am never done tweaking the UIs of the editors I use to maximize my ability to work around these things.