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Perfectionism: The impossible Goal
When you have unmanaged ADHD, there is a constant sense of failure. Forgetting appointments, losing things, feeling overwhelmed, time blindness, silly mistakes… it never ends. And when you try to fight against these failing, you find you are fighting against all apparent failings. The line between “I mess up because I have ADHD” and “I’m imperfect because I’m human” is not just blurred; it is invisible. And so, at great cost, many high-masking ADHDers don’t[…]