ADHD: What It Really Costs
A look beyond symptoms and productivity into the long bill.
Trey Robinson
The public conversation about ADHD is still obsessed with symptoms and output. Can you focus. Can you finish. Can you be less inconvenient.
The real bill is elsewhere. It is the relationships that warped around misunderstanding. It is the shame that became a personality. It is the body that learned to live on alert. It is the years spent managing other people's comfort instead of building a life that fit.
I grew around the diagnosis. I learned to hide parts of it well enough that people could keep believing the myth.
The cost is not only what ADHD does. The cost is what a culture does with it.