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“When compared to adults without ADHD, adults with ADHD consistently complete fewer years of school, have lower levels of employment, earn lower salaries, change jobs more frequently, receive more negative ratings of work performance, have higher rates of marital discord (if not greater divorce rates), lower relationship satisfaction, higher risk for psychiatric and substance abuse problems, have higher rates of pessimism, lower life satisfaction, and are more likely to report impairment that interferes with keeping up with the demands of daily life” “A consistent finding across studies is that adult ADHD has a negative impact on identity, satisfaction, life options, and self-esteem” “Of adults with ADHD, 72% said their symptoms have had a lifelong impact and they were significantly more likely than controls to report workplace and relationship impairment.” “Adults with ADHD were significantly more negative in their outlooks on life and had lower ratings of self-acceptance.” “Adults wi...

You know what happened? I lost my space. I lost my space to the rain. I can’t walk where I used to walk. I used to listen to music or listen to audiobooks or read books on my kindle while walking on the rooftop of my house but I can’t do that nowadays… all because of the rain. It is the monsoon season in India. It is July. And all because of this, I can’t walk. I can’t walk here and record my voice diaries. There is water just pooling on this rooftop on one side. The whole roof is wet, its all damp. And I am here, at night, trying to record a voice diary because I need to, just, get it all out. But its dark and the floor is all wet. I wanted to read a book in my tab but the tab is too heavy and I’m afraid that I might stumble in the dark on all this stuff that is here, the plants and pots, and that I’ll drop my tab and it’ll break. Its pretty fragile and I’ve already broken it once. I don’t want that to happen again. The Physical Activity Problem I just wanted some movement, but ev...