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I was expecting to react very emotionally to this book, and was surprised when that didn't happen. Other women have said that this book changed their lives or finally made them feel understood for the first time in their lives. While I didn't have that reaction, that didn't stop this from being the best book about women and ADHD that I have found.
ADHD characteristics were necessary for the survival of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. When humanity experienced the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, the methodical “farmer” personality became dominant. Most of our modern world is tailored to this farmer, from 9-to-5 jobs to the structure of public schools, leaving ADHD hunters feeling like unsuccessful outcasts. However, the hunter skill set offers many opportunities for success — if you learn how to embrace your ADHD traits instead of fighting them. In Adult ADHD, Thom Hartmann explains the positive side of hunter behavior and reveals how hunters make excellent entrepreneurs. He draws on solid scientific and psychological principles to provide easy-to-follow organizational tips and pointers for maintaining focus, creating a distraction-free workspace, setting goals, and discovering the right business project to keep you motivated. Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honor your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity. Some of the advice was helpful, and has made me research into support groups I can sign up for, but a lot of Sari's advice comes down to: pay someone else to divide your difficulties and move up higher in your workplace so others can do the 'nitty gritty' parts of your job. Maybe I don’t have ADHD. Maybe I am just “trash” (the internal “not enough” monologue that rings through my head daily). But there are tears in my eyes writing this review for the way I feel seen and normalized instead of shamed and ostracized. And as a result of this book (and some lovely humans who have entered my life and encouraged me), I’m beginning my journey of testing/diagnosis for ADHD, finally, at the age of 37.
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The book’s main objective is to explore executive functioning skills which can include focus, organization, and stress management, and share tools and strategies for strengthening those skills as someone with ADHD.
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. Also, I highly, highly HIGHLY recommend this book to others I don't know. To anyone who knows a daydreamer, has trouble managing time, was repeatedly told "You just weren't looking" or was called selfish, scatterbrained, weird. To someone who read, "needs to apply herself" on report cards. To the person who struggles with finishing things. To the person who "just needs to try harder". To the person who maybe thought they had it all together until suddenly one day, for whatever reason- leaving the nest, marriage, parenthood, death of a loved one- they no longer did. 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. As I read, I found myself enjoying the interactivity. Sari and Michelle have a warm, conversational tone. They share ideas in an always caring and sometimes humorous way. They include stories from other women with ADHD, reaffirming you are not alone. And throughout, they ask you questions that encourage you to get to know yourself better. No one has all the answers. They sure don’t have YOUR answers! Sari and Michelle never pretend they have all the answers. I love that they help you ask the right questions. I wish I had this book twenty years ago. Save yourself twenty years; get it today.” 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.
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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: The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD: An 8-Step Program for Strengthening Attention, Managing Emotions, and Achieving Your Goals (#CommissionsEarned) This particular passage resonated with me. This is only one of the many passages that will resonate with women who live every day with their ADHD. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my senior year of high school. It has impacted me immensely over the years because it seemed like yet another obstacle for me to “get over”.
Thriving with ADHD” is designed to help children with ADHD self-regulate, focus, and succeed. The book begins by introducing ADHD by outlining the common ADHD symptoms and how kids can harness them to their advantage. Over the course of a lifetime, women with ADHD learn through various channels that the way they think, work, speak, relate, and act does not match up with the preferred way of being in the world. In short, they learn that difference is bad. And, since these women know that they are different, they learn that they are bad. Sari Solden has ADHD herself, and her flavor of ADHD, as she describes it, is that she's very disorganized and struggles greatly with paperwork. My difficulties are a little different, which meant I didn't relate to her personal anecdotes as much. She also touches only briefly on the way protective factors like IQ can change the presentation of a woman's ADHD. She has decades of clinical experience working with ADHD women, though, and it was through these anecdotes about her clients that I finally did catch reassuring glimpses of myself. There were lots of moments where I found myself nodding my head and thinking, "yes, this, exactly this."I am eternally grateful to have had this book recommended to me. Like reading an autobiography I did not write but could have, it tied in so many things I have perceived in my being to be faulty parts. With this book, I feel validated. Like I wasn't just screwing around for my whole life. I wish everyone who knows me would read this.
Whether you’re the parent of a child recently diagnosed with ADHD or an adult seeking new methods for managing ADHD symptoms, there is a wide variety of books for ADHD available to offer you some guidance.
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ADHD is criticized by many as an over applied diagnosis. I've heard someone say, "Oh everybody has that", and I've heard others say it's just an excuse for laziness or not trying hard enough. Frankly, I feel it is under diagnosed, especially in women. I did rate this book a 4, but my brain has been obsessively mulling over a few points about this book that don't sit 100% with me.
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