As she advanced at her workplace, Kristina was told she “wasn’t fitting into a box” — code for concerns about efficiency, linear communication, and billable performance. Her work was always accurate, but she spent too much time researching and writing, which became more costly as her billing rate increased. She didn’t realize that constant task-switching was undermining her productivity. Rather than seeing a systems issue, she internalized the feedback as a personal failure. Like many high-achieving women with ADHD, she felt there was something fundamentally wrong with how she worked.