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This is an ever evolving page of resources suggested by people who identify with the neurodiverse community on the topic of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
General Resources
Better Late Than Never: Understand, Survive and Thrive Midlife ADHD Diagnosis by Emma Mahony.
Emma was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 52 and explores not only the process of diagnosis in her book, but heritability, variability in how ADHD presents in terms of gender, how to go about seeking support, and ultimately she uses her experiences to suggest and demonstrate ways to thrive with ADHD.
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté.
Gabor, who has ADD himself, balances this book between being very personal with lots of his proverbial “lightbulb” moments throughout and scientific as he uses his insight as both an individual with ADD and a physician to look at ways of explaining, understanding, and managing ADHD throughout one’s own life. His background as a physician means he does pathologize ADHD in a way which some may find distasteful, but it is a very comprehensive resource which we feel is quite a good recommendation to have a better understanding of ADHD, especially as it provides a good overview of emotional regulation in ADHD.
Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD by Jaclyn Paul.
Jaclyn, author at The ADHD Homestead blog, wrote this and it is such a wonderful and helpful book which we feel is best described by the intimacy of a review by another ADHD focused author:
“Order from Chaos feels like sitting down with a good friend, an honest friend, who is a little further down the road of learning how to tackle and subdue the daily chaos of living with ADHD. If there were an ADHD self-help book group, I’d nominate this book to be at the top of the reading list.”
Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D., co-author of ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Crazy or Stupid?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo.
Kate and Peggy wrote one of the first self-help books here for adults with ADD by adults with ADD and we want to celebrate that, at Practical Neurodiversity we are inspired by and hope to inspire leadership, teaching, and learning within the neurodiverse community. This book is ultimately a relatable self-help book on all things ADHD, although it has been pointed out to us that the book will not lend quite the same sense of relatability to those outwith North America due to certain cultural aspects, it is nonetheless a useful book to consult.
This is a free online community for ADHDers which offers a place to share tips and strategies for navigating the world with others and they seem to have really cool plans for the future, such as body double sessions and zoom yoga!
Stories That Never Stand Still
A free to download workbook designed for and by teenagers with ADHD with the ADHD Foundation. It covers a lot, from the struggles to the positives of having ADHD. In the book you will find sections, such as: The A to Z of ADHD, The Art of Calm, Dealing With It (looks at coping skills for anxiety, anger, frustration, stress), Phone: Friend or Foe, A Day in the Life (a comic strip section), Hooray for ADHD (celebrating the positives), A Letter to a Younger ADHDer, and even a Quiet Colouring Page.
‘Stories that Never Stand Still’ [is] a book celebrating what’s amazing and annoying, fun and funny, incredibly inspiring and wonderfully weird about ADHD. Sharing stories, struggles and achievements, this book gives you an opportunity to learn or remind yourself about the positives of having an ADHD brain.
Dr Tony Lloyd – CEO ADHD Foundation
For Young People
Stories That Never Stand Still
A free to download workbook designed for and by teenagers with ADHD with the ADHD Foundation. It covers a lot, from the struggles to the positives of having ADHD. In the book you will find sections, such as: The A to Z of ADHD, The Art of Calm, Dealing With It (looks at coping skills for anxiety, anger, frustration, stress), Phone: Friend or Foe, A Day in the Life (a comic strip section), Hooray for ADHD (celebrating the positives), A Letter to a Younger ADHDer, and even a Quiet Colouring Page.
‘Stories that Never Stand Still’ [is] a book celebrating what’s amazing and annoying, fun and funny, incredibly inspiring and wonderfully weird about ADHD. Sharing stories, struggles and achievements, this book gives you an opportunity to learn or remind yourself about the positives of having an ADHD brain.
Dr Tony Lloyd – CEO ADHD Foundation
For Supporters
Medication
Comorbidities
Sleep
Organisation & Time Management
Emotional Regulation
Executive Function & Dysfunction
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
Suggestions & Recommendations
We hope you find what you need here, but as Practical Neurodiversity is a really new project and because neurodiversity is so expansive, we will unfortunately not have resources on every topic; so, if there is something you see elsewhere that you feel we should add or if there are resources you would like us to help you find, just let us know by using the form below.
Important Note
As we update and categorise this list some resources may be mentioned more than once due to their overlap between context and certain resources may appear under multiple subheadings of neurotype due to the complex overlaps between neurodiverse ways of experiencing and knowing the world, and we also just want to make sure you are able to find what you are looking for too.
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