How much is your ADHD costing you?
Late fees. Lost AirPods. Food delivered because cooking felt impossible. Fifteen questions, two minutes, one number you've been trying not to look at.
- Move each slider to your honest guess. No login. No email.
- "Skip" zeros the question if it does not apply.
- Running total appears at the top once you start. Currency switch is in the same bar.
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Your 2026 ADHD Tax
₹0
Where it goes
The bigger picture
Your number is the part you can see.
Late fees and lost chargers are the visible slice. Research that also counts lost income and productivity puts the full cost of adult ADHD near $14,092 per person, per year. Adults with ADHD earn 20 to 40% less than peers, and default on loans at six times the rate. What you calculated above is real, and it is still an undercount.
Doshi et al. 2022, Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy. Biederman and Faraone 2006. Beauchaine et al. 2020, Science Advances. Sources linked below.
30-year projection
If nothing changes, this costs you ₹0 over 30 years.
Invested at 8% instead, that is ₹0 of compounded wealth you will not see.
What actually moves the needle
Before you buy anything, including from us. Most of your tax is fixable for free. This is the order that matters.
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Put every recurring bill on autopay. Today.
Late fees are the easiest category to delete, because the fix needs zero memory. Autopay rent, cards, utilities, insurance. It is the highest-leverage 20 minutes you will spend this year.
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Book one yearly subscription audit.
Set a single recurring calendar event, once a year. Open your bank statement, read every line, cancel what you forgot you were paying for. Most people find two or three dead subscriptions. You will probably find more.
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Add a 24-hour gap to non-essential buys.
Impulse spending is a speed problem, not a willpower problem. Put the thing in the cart and leave it a day. The urge usually passes. What you still want tomorrow, you buy without the guilt.
Where Ultra Reminders fits: the three moves above handle money you lose on autopilot. They do nothing for the task you genuinely meant to do and forgot. The dentist, the friend's birthday, the form due Friday. That is the gap below.
The fix
Ultra Reminders is $35. Once.
A Mac app that rewrites every vague task into a four-field reminder with a time, a plan, and a reason. Built for the brain that forgets the dentist appointment and orders ₹400 of food at 11pm.
Get Ultra Reminders · $35Where the numbers come from
Your total is built only from what you enter. Each amount is annualized (weekly figures times 52, monthly times 12), summed, then projected at an 8% annual return for the 30-year figure. There is no survey behind your number and no percentile, because honest percentile data on personal ADHD spending does not exist. What does exist is peer-reviewed research on the financial cost of ADHD. That research is why measuring this is worth two minutes.
- Doshi JA, et al. (2022). Economic burden of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder among adults in the United States. Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy, 28(2). Total societal cost about $14,092 per adult, per year. Read
- Biederman J, Faraone SV (2006). The effects of ADHD on employment and household income. MedGenMed, 8(3). Household income roughly 20% lower than matched controls. Read
- Klein RG, et al. (2012). Clinical and functional outcome of childhood ADHD 33 years later. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(12). Median income gap near $40,000 per year by midlife. Read
- Altszuler AR, et al. (2016). Financial dependence of young adults with childhood ADHD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(6). Projected lifetime earnings deficit of $543,000 to $616,000. Read
- Beauchaine TP, Ben-David I, Bos M (2020). ADHD, financial distress, and suicide in adulthood: a population study. Science Advances, 6(40). Loan default rate over six times the general population by age 40. Read
- Mies GW, et al. (2024). Impulsive buying and deferment of gratification among adults with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders. ADHD linked to more frequent impulsive buying, mediated by difficulty deferring gratification. Read