Preventing others from using tools that help them focus because you are in a position of power to determine what "focus" looks like is exactly the point the parent comment was making.

"Being able to focus on a speech" looks different for differently-abled people. Just because it doesn't look like focus to you doesn't mean you or anyone else should get to dictate the tools I or anyone else use to enhance our focus control.

Different people have different needs in order to focus fully on something. It reeks of entitlement to look at another person and decide how they get to manage their focus.

I think you stated this a bit better than I did, and certainly more concisely. It's immensely frustrating and exhausting to have to constantly defend myself against accusations of not being attentive enough, not being responsive enough, not "looking like I work hard" enough.

If you want someone who looks and runs about like a good little office bee, then I'm (quite evidently) not your girl. That said if you want your jobs handled on-time, to spec and beyond, and with care and consideration for the end users, that's me.