Nobody warned me publishing means waiting... .. .

(which is torture with ADHD time blindness)

Book manuscript done? Great.

Now wait an undefined amount of time.

Time blindness isn't easy as it is.

But it makes waiting absurd.

The book launches next week.

And I cannot compute what that means.

In my head the book's been "done" already.

This spot between "done" and "out there" doesn't make sense.

Publishing timelines were designed by people who experience time linearly.

The rest of us refresh our email every 20 minutes to see if it's live yet.

Spoiler: It's never live yet 🤫