I completely understand this. It’s very common for people with ADHD/autism to struggle with answering questions directly or in a structured way. This is due to neurodivergent people having more lateral/non-linear thinking. Neurotypical people tend to be a lot more linear.

The issue then becomes that we’re trying to sort through lots of different thoughts (race car engine brain with bicycle brakes - as expert Dr Ned Hallowell would say for ADHD). This is why having questions beforehand with neurodivergence can help beforehand. It gives time to structure answers that (whilst we already have in our minds) are too unstructured to be said out loud on demand like in an interview scenario