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Donnie
@Donnie

Because of the aforementioned ADHD, I'm currently reading 4 different ADHD self-help books and since I'm like equally 3 chapters into each of them I figured I'd plug them in case anyone else is looking for reading material. They all vary in terms of usefulness (some are a little outdated), and general topic, but pretty much all of them revolve around streamlining and organizing your life in a way that is conducive to an ADHD brain, not a neurotypical one. And they're all geared towards an Adult ADHD audience, with occasional bits about children/parenting but are mostly for adults. Again I haven't finished any of these, especially since I'm taking notes while reading them so it's slow going, so apologies if in the last chapter any of them get super weird or something. I doubt it though.
Oh and I threw a rec for an essay anthology about broadly speaking disabilities, since I'm also currently reading it and want to just leave a note about it here too. This citation style isn't anything specific but its how I write my list of books I'm reading so deal with it.

  • You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. 1993. ISBN 0-684-80116-7
  • ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadea, Ph. D. 2002. ISBN 1-58391-358-0
  • Disability Visibility: twenty-first century disabled voices edited by Alice Wong. 2020. ISBN 9781984899422
  • Organizing Solutions For People With ADHD (3rd Edition) by Susan C. Pinsky. 2023. ISBN 978-0760381625
  • Driven to Distraction by Edward M Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D.. 1994. ISBN 0-684-80128-0

numberonebug
@numberonebug

I also have a new book I really recommend
-How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) by Jessica McCabe https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710890/how-to-adhd-by-jessica-mccabe/

she's been running the preeminent youtube channel How to ADHD for years now and has a refreshing take on the whole thing. tbc she did partner with psychologists and researchers for writing the book so its not just what she's figured out but also all the new research we've learned in the past few years


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