I’m 24, high functioning Autism and ADD. I grew up impoverished, and have been homeless a few times. I’m living with my dad currently, though he’s about to get married and informed me I “need a plan”. He spent money he said was for my future schooling, so higher education isn’t really in my scope of plans anymore.
I have a girlfriend who wants to get married after she’s done school… but I have a … interesting problem
For my entire life, everyone also yelled and “firmly told me” I needed to make money and get rich and it’s all about not taking on debt and NO CREDIT CARDS and all this stuff. Well, now I’m an adult and it’s like..: physically painful to think about caring about money. I don’t need much, just enough to get by, and I don’t mind working a job… But, with rising costs of living and minimum wage not going up, I’m going to need some sort of career.
I’m a motivated guy. I can do things I like with focus, and I do a little online business as well. But… how do I start caring about money? How do I start wanting to make more money? How do I get over this associate of “thinking about ways to make money is bad”?
Please help: my life literally hangs in the balance. I need to figure out how to turn the switch in my brain on.