NO ONE believes me that I have concentration difficulties because of my high grades. It's so upsetting. I don't know when people decided that performance in school was the ultimate determinant of one's cognitive abilities. Yes, I do well in school. I fail in every other aspect of life, but I do well in school. What good are all of those As on my transcript if I can't hold a job because I'm too scatterbrained. I can't tell you why exactly I do so well at school-related tasks, although I suspect it has something to do with the ability to do things at my own pace. For example, if I have a school essay due in two weeks, I can start on it now and write a little bit here and there when my concentration will allow. On the other hand, at a job, I'm expected to do things on the spot, so it's much harder for me to perform.

I had a friend tell me that I would have more money if I really wanted to, so if I wind up moving back in with my abusive sister, it is all my fault for not putting in more work to make more money. That's rough to hear. People really think I'm just so lazy that I would rather live with an unsanitary, abusive monster than work? Does the fact that I have a 3.95 GPA, graduated college, and have aspirations of being a doctor not tell people that my problem isn't that I'm merely lazy?