ADHD Can Be Taxing
Well, it’s that time of the year again. Your boss, your neighbours, your co-workers and the members of your social groups are receiving their income tax refunds.
And you’re wondering where your receipts are.
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Well, it’s that time of the year again. Your boss, your neighbours, your co-workers and the members of your social groups are receiving their income tax refunds.
And you’re wondering where your receipts are.
...I think we can agree that addiction is not a good thing, yes? Good. So it nearly goes without saying that we do not want to invest in a treatment that increases the risk of addiction.
...ADHD is so multifaceted that absolutely nothing about this disorder is simple. Thus diagnosis is complicated by the convolutions of the manifestation of the symptom combinations.
That, was a fancy way of saying ADHD is never the same in any two people with the disorder,
...ADHD is all about time. Or more correctly, it’s about how we have no sense of time passing. We are poor at judging how much time something will take when we plan.
...I’ve said that I believe ADHD can be described as a dichotomy model. And sometimes I just get frustrated by how obvious that is … and how difficult it is to explain.
...I have a problem. I can’t say no. When someone asks me to do something, I feel like I’m letting the world down if I say no.
And I’ve given this some thought,
...You know you can’t just say you have ADHD, right? In fact, if you go around saying it without having a valid diagnosis, there’s a chance you’ll upset someone who has the diagnosis.
...I’ve got a couple of jobs lined up. I said I’d do them and I will. For two reasons, first, I want to, and second, I keep my word.
And I told my boss that as far as jobs were concerned,
...There was no diagnosis for my mother. I’m not saying that she was undiagnosable, I’m saying she was not diagnosed.
But the evidence suggests that she could have been.
...What is up with my ADHD brain? Yeah, yeah, I know, easily distracted, impetuous and impulsive, long on lists and procrastination. I know all these things, I write a blog about them.
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