ADHD is killing my bottom line.
God, I’m expensive. Not in a chic way. Not even in a distasteful bourgeois way. I’m not talking about my skincare regimen, my mortgage, my Afterpay balance, or the little indulgences that make life worth living. I mean that the cost of being me — as I am, natural, unmanaged, without intervention — is egregious. Let me explain.
What other debts has my diagnosis racked up? Pre- and post-prescription, what else has this differently wired brain cost me? And what about when my dopamine dips and only an order confirmation email can pick it back up again? Were it not for all my little impulse purchases, I could be a megalomaniac billionaire by now. And then it gets harder to quantify.More than one relationship has fizzled when my scattered brain lost its charm and became grating instead. Important texts that disappear from my immediate field of vision and go unanswered for days — it takes a very good friend to forgive that.
Overdue invoices and missing receipts, bills that just keep coming and cheques I can’t cash. Is my brain still under warranty? Is it too late for a refund?
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