Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children I didn’t really decide to learn about my disability until about a year ago, when my therapist recommended reading materials for my ADHD and I stumbled across this book via Audible. I realized that, by learning more about my ADHD, I am finally putting MYSELF in control. Following an overview, the workbook then provides 60 hands-on exercises focused on everything from skill-building to action-oriented learning, all of which can help them succeed at home and school. I would have appreciated an elaboration on why the authors used the term “invisible differences,” and not “invisible disability.” Understanding and embracing disability, especially invisible disability, is empowering and helps me assert my rights and connects me to other people with shared experiences. Most importantly, it makes me question normalcy and privilege. The book seems to distance itself from the term and I just can’t imagine why.

The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD is a great book for people who have been recently diagnosed with ADHD Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn’t Fit In – When to Worry and When Not to Worry The solutions they DO talk about come with caveats like, strategies need to be personalized, and come from a place of power instead of pain. Overall, here’s the big idea the authors (who earned bonus points for being women with adhd themselves) state that moved me: Generally I do not enjoy reading self-help books. This one grabbed my attention, because as someone with ADHD, and the parent of someone with ADHD, I wondered what new info or help could be gained. I was instantly surprised with how much resonated with me. Topics that I never considered to be ADHD related were suddenly revealed to me. I’ve lived with a lot of secrecy and shame throughout my life, largely berating myself for being a failure as an adult. Yes, I managed to muscle myself through and complete a doctoral program, but so much of that also came from patient, kind, understanding, and empathetic professors, mentors, and friends who put a lot of effort into assuaging these fears (well, at least enough to calm my brain to get though the next hurdle).For women with ADHD, this book is for you. In “A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD,” author Sari Solden highlights the unique challenges and experiences women face when living with ADHD. A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD walks you through the process of confronting uncomfortable facts of living with ADHD. ADHD is not all about not being able to sit still, or pay attention properly, or get things done. ADHD has so many other facets that leak into our everyday lives. Feelings of unworthiness or shame at how we live cause us to be one person on the inside and quite another on the outside. Without confronting these differences and accepting our challenges, we hide who we really are from the rest of the world.

With a focus on executive functioning, a critical component of managing ADHD, “Thriving with Adult ADHD” is a great read for adults who want to build a strong foundation for their lives with ADHD.You can only begin to believe in yourself when someone believes in you. Sari and Michelle offer that belief. Their faith in the potential and power of women with ADHD is refreshing. It takes bravery to stop hiding. Buying this book is an act of bravery. It’s the first step to believing in yourself. To believing you are capable of much more than camouflaging yourself as normal. This is not a book of strategies to help you appear normal.

Anyhow, I was married to someone for 14 years who accepted and validated me...until he had an affair and left my daughter and I to fend for ourselves.

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Finally, a year ago, someone else saw in me what I did. I was asked if I had ever been evaluated for ADHD, and my response? I started to cry. I learned that although I do have a REALLY high IQ- which for the first time in my life feels very good to say- the gap between that and my executive functioning skills is huge. It was thought that copies of my old report cards might help in my diagnostic testing, but as it turned out, there was no gray area in the data to compare against my grades. One of the people I have been working with throughout all of this said that, despite all of my struggles, the fact that I have persisted through three attempts in college is remarkable. This book has changed my life. If you are a woman, or know a woman who has been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, read this book!