Strongly recommend finding/pirating a copy of More Attention Less Deficit by Ari Tuckman. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was like 8 or 9, back in the 90s where they just threw pills at you and forgot about you. Always felt like everyone else got issued a manual on how to be a person and I never got one growing up. This book felt like that goddamn manual, and it took finally seeking out an ADHD-specific therapist to point me to it.
Learning to understand your neurodivergence is key to dealing with it. I cried when I read about executive dysfunction for the first time. A thing I couldn't articulate to other people, that seemed like made-up bullshit to them, was actually fucking real and scientifically valid. It reframed so much of my life.
Strongly recommend finding/pirating a copy of More Attention Less Deficit by Ari Tuckman. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was like 8 or 9, back in the 90s where they just threw pills at you and forgot about you. Always felt like everyone else got issued a manual on how to be a person and I never got one growing up. This book felt like that goddamn manual, and it took finally seeking out an ADHD-specific therapist to point me to it.
Learning to understand your neurodivergence is key to dealing with it. I cried when I read about executive dysfunction for the first time. A thing I couldn't articulate to other people, that seemed like made-up bullshit to them, was actually fucking real and scientifically valid. It reframed so much of my life.
Comrade, I logged back in after ages. I shall find a pirate copy of this book and pour through it.