A Tax on Neurodivergence

Certain items are pretty much an ADHD tax, more expensive but they obviate the time that would be taken up without them because of neurodivergence (I use ADHD as the example because, well, I live with it).

One example: Amazon finally have a fireTV remote that will play a noise when told to by the house-ghost.¹

I have never actually permanently lost my existing remote. If I do, I have an app I can use on my phone. But the app takes time to connect every time I want to use it, as I multitask a lot and it gets swapped out pretty swiftly. But the cats² will knock my existing remote places that are very non-obvious.

So I’m fighting with my phone to watch stuff while also searching frantically for the actual remote because I won’t have peace of mind without it, but the lack of object constancy that comes with ADHD means I can’t see the damned thing for the life of me even when it’s where I put it down ten goddamn seconds ago.

£35 is a steep price for doing away with the searching, but given I’ve spent at least three quarters of an hour over the past three days searching for the damn thing — and that’s just the most recent examples — it is looking more and more tempting.

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1. See https://digitalraven.dreamwidth.org/647906.html for my thoughts on assembly-line necromancy ↩

2. Yes, cats. Definitely not the person whose medication side-effects includes ‘cack-handedness’ ↩