Goddamn, you guys seem to have your shit together. As someone who has struggled with ADHD-symptoms since early childhood, I can say that starting a savings has eluded me my entire life.
It might seem like that, but it's only in a few limited and specific aspects of life. One of them being personal finance. It's an important one though, so I am lucky that my particular combination of AuDHD has helped rather than hinder me in this regard.
But I'm far from together in many other aspects of life. For instance, when it comes to things like emotional regulation, and trying to limit the damage that struggling with this does to my social standing, I am still absolutely floundering. This is possibly verging on, or already fully become, some kind of mental health issue, although IIRC I've never seen a mental health issue being named "emotional dysregultion", but it's definitely a prominent symptom of neurodivergent conditions, for many of us.
I think I'm working in a social environment that is completely unsuitable for me, and I think this is causing most of my issues with my emotional regulation.. But I need the job, and I have to take whatever jobs I can manage to get, as getting jobs can be very difficult for me, and I don't feel that we're at the stage when you can declare various neurodivergencies and ask for accommodations at work. In UK employment law, and in theory, we should be, but I don't believe that in practice we're anywhere near. Although it does vary from place to place, depending on the work culture.
Anecdotes about people securing job offers over here, and then deciding to declare their Autism at that point, have seen the job offers mysteriously revoked immediately afterwards. It is contrary to the disabilities act to discriminate on such grounds, but of course the employer would just come up with some other b/s reasons if you tried to take them to court. This has happened 3 times, to one person I followed on youtube for a time.
There's many other struggles I face too, most of them are due to my AuDHD. I mostly see my Autism as a curse, particularly with how I am perceived socially, but it's probably helped me out with finances, due to me becoming obsessed and focused enough to find personal finance youtbers who's content helped me get over the potentially difficult hurdle of learning about investing, due to all the jargon and potentially dry and boring nature of the subject matter etc, if you don't find people who can make the subject interesting and accessible.
Autistic people tend to have specific subjects that they become very interested in. Some of them may be beneficial, some not so much. Because taking drugs and learning about them is another of my "special interests" and I'm kind of walking a tightrope regarding that, as to whether my combination of prescription meds and self medicating is going to help me, and continue doing so, or whether it's going to fuck me up pretty severely at some point, if I'm not careful.
