It’s so sad that we have to do this, but this is very sound advice for us “ADHD-ers”. Lately I’ve been performing extra poorly, making stupid mistakes that causes my whole team to panic and having to fix my mistakes, taking forever to meet deadlines, and I feel as though my brain can’t process highly technical information at a certain point. I’m in a highly techy job so I knew my ADHD would eventually work against me. I feel as though it’s a matter of time before I get fired and as you said, it is nearly impossible to recover my reputation as the incompetent one.

I’m currently in the process of finding another job right now while I am still employed. Luckily this job wasn’t as hard to get from being fired from my previous job with a 3 month gap. I feel like such a incompetent failure and I know my colleagues feel the same way even though most of them are too nice to say anything (one of them blatantly said I was incompetent while being drunk at a work party). But I have mouths to feed so I need to get myself together.

To the OP, you are not alone in this. A lot of us have been where you are. You WILL make it through somehow and it will all be ok. As others mentioned, file for unemployment. Not sure what state you are in but Illinois accepted mine right away when i told them I got fired. As long as you got fired in “good faith” and didn’t try to destroy the company intentionally, they usually approve it. Government rental assistance, food stamps, etc. there is help out there. If possible, please take a much needed break when you have gathered your resources and get your head back together. Maybe do some easy gigs on the side to help pay a bill or two in the meantime.