This category features a wide range of first-person stories about living with Adult ADHD—in oneself or a loved one.
We’ve all heard about the much-ballyhooed ADHD Hyperfocus. Hollywood screenwriter and now author Frank South shares his personal take on the topic below. It’s an an excerpt from his new book: A Chicken In The
We’re hearing a lot these days about toxic masculinity and male entitlement and even male fragility. We hear almost nothing, however, about the many ways in which males—from fetal status onward—are, in general, neurobiologically more
What difference does it make later in life, to be diagnosed with ADHD and take medication? Why take medication for ADHD, anyway? What’s the point? Meg and I met just a few years ago. At
To people who don’t truly understand Adult ADHD, it seems a ridiculous oxymoron: A perfectionist person with ADHD? Yet, the phenomenon is surprisingly common. I hear it among my friends who say, for example, that
A reader wrote to me last week, “Gina, where are you??? Are you okay? Or, has something happened to my ADHD Roller Coaster blog subscription?” Have you been wondering the same? Please accept my apologies. The
Now we come to ADHD Myth #10: The symptoms of inattention in ADHD are nothing more than “daydreaming.” This is one more aspect of an over-arching popular myth about ADHD: It “pathologizes normal human behavior.”
It’s a tragic fact: People with poorly managed ADHD are over-represented in the prison population. Some of these people are my acquaintances who have reached out for help before, during, and/or after their incarceration. I do what I can.
“Call Frances Strassman. She’s not a bozo,” the woman said. This young attorney exuded an air of authentic authority. That’s why I believed her when she warned, “Careful, there are a lot of ADHD
Part 3 here. Be Careful With Those ADHD Eyeglasses Maybe this has happened to you. As soon as you started learning about ADHD, you suddenly saw it all around you. You have officially donned
Explaining the Inexplicable. I used that phrase to describe the first “loop de loop” on the ADHD Roller Coaster. In other words, when ADHD goes unrecognized or misunderstood in a partner, we can look for
