The ADHD Tax | High Signal Coaching

A clear-eyed look at the real price of running a company on a brain that was never given the right scaffolding.

The ADHD Tax | High Signal Coaching High Signal Blog The ADHD Tax What Executive Dysfunction Is Actually Costing You March 2026 · 7 min read A clear-eyed look at the real price of doing technical work on a brain that was never given the right scaffolding. The invoice went out sixty-three days late. Not because you forgot the client existed. Not because you didn't know the work was done. The invoice sat in a draft because opening the billing software triggered something — a low-grade dread, a sense of wrongness, a sudden and urgent need to reorganize your Notion workspace instead. The client pa

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