Neurotypical Budgeting Tips Don’t Work for ADHD Brains. These Do.
Many folks with ADHD don’t like to look at their finances for one simple reason: It’s often not good news. Even though they know better intellectually, they like to believe that it will all work out — fingers crossed.
The problem is that they have skipped over the very first rule of money management: Money loves attention!Many adults with ADHD are masters at avoiding direct contact with their finances.
They ignore bank statements or let the mail pile up for months in a game of financial Russian roulette: “If we don’t see the bills, they don’t really exist, so we don’t have to deal with them.”The hard truth is that bravely facing your current cash flow — the money that comes in and the money that goes out — is the only way to gain control of it.
That takes an ADHD-friendly budget of some kind — plus these other budgeting tips that work for ADHD brains.The word “budget” raises hackles for many folks with ADHD; it elicits images of scarcity and rigidity.
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