ADD and the Fear of Dealing with Money

By Sharpie at Sharp Like a Duck, Babe!

ADD, for me, is nearly synonymous with the internet. As soon as I click that little... is that a fox hugging a planet?... well, anyway, as soon as I click it, I'm in non-attention heaven: multiple tabs with short, brightly colored articles that I have no obligation to read in detail/take notes on/be tested on. As a result, I have a cursory, haphazard knowledge of a miscellany of topics. I'll just get into something, wikipedia it, search del.icio.us and technorati, open every single link, and scan each one (taking frequent, necessary breaks to compulsively check my e-mail and play Snood).
One topic I tend to come back to frequently is personal finance. For a variety of personal reasons, I'm a little weird about money. I don't earn any, per se (I have an occasional part-time job, but it pays negligibly and gives me hours even less), and most of what I do have is in the hands of my parents. But somehow, reading pf-sites empowers me. This last bout, I set up online banking and earned 50 dollars, all within the course of my normal, ADD-riddled surfing. I could start filling out a form, decide to go get some cereal, cut my toenails, and return 20 minutes later and still get something accomplished (plus, I was totally getting a hangnail).
The big challenge is yet to come. I have a nagging, creeping dread in the corners of my mind: one day, I will have to earn an income, pay bills for living expenses, and not get into debt because I "forgot" a payment or a signature or that I needed to pay for water. Yes, yes, online bill-pay, automated this-and-that, direct whoosiewhatsit. I'm a natural worrier, so nothing you say will really comfort me. Luckily, I'm fairly easily distracted.

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