"...every pile of paper examined, and every unpaid bill discovered brings up a new feeling of failure, a new recognition of opportunities abandoned, another reminder of a way she didn't measure up. These kinds of feelings prevent her from having the kind of help necessary to move ahead. Unless these kinds of emotions are understood by the individual and by everyone trying to help her, she will eventually run into a brick wall. Before a coach, a friend, a counselor, or family member can intervene effectively, they must understand the level of difficulty that the woman may have employing strategies that sound completely reasonable to the person suggesting them. A woman develops a desire to avoid triggering those old maligning messages at any cost. In order to maintain any appearance of competency that she has managed to achieve, she slowly but steadily, even without her full awareness, begins to hide parts of herself."-Women with Attention Deficit Disorder by: Sari Solden.

...Wow.