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“I Worked Among the Best and Brightest on Wall Street. Then I Was Diagnosed with ADHD.”

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Liar’s Poker, Barbarians at the Gate, and every other book on high-finance available at the local library in my Midwestern hometown.

I had also purchased my first stock by then.Little did I know that my intense fixation on Wall Street could be attributed to hyperfocus associated with undiagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD), which also became the reason I ultimately left what I had thought was my dream job.Investment banking is an exclusive club that almost requires a certain pedigree, including top schools and near-perfect grades.

Though I worked much harder than most of my peers, I only earned a ‘B+’ average at a state school — not exactly the ideal background for the field.

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