This category features a wide range of first-person stories about living with Adult ADHD—in oneself or a loved one.
Gallows humor isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. If it’s not yours, please skip listening to Frank South’s song: ADHD Hypomanic Alcoholic S.O.B. Personally, I admire people who hold onto their sense of humor as they
These first-person stories from generic Concerta users recount the dramatic and adverse changes they experienced—often not knowing why . This started around 2015. Typically, those associating their devolved functioning with the different-looking “Concerta” pill
Does ADHD truly confer greater creativity? If you get your science news only from your Facebook feed, you might think so. The truth is more complicated. Recently, preeminent ADHD research scientist Russell Barkley and I
The New York Times has recently published a parade of hit pieces on ADHD in its opinion section. This merits calling out. As a veteran print journalist who grew up respecting The New York Times,
The New York Times has made Sunday a day of unrest for people with ADHD — and the people who love them. It is always the Sunday edition. Why? It has the highest circulation. And
You know that marvelous feeling you get, when you stop hitting yourself in the head with a mallet? That’s how I felt on September 31, when I turned in a manuscript to Routledge Press. The
Thank you to readers who entered The ADHD Explosion book giveaway contest! I am showcasing all 20 comments here, and will announce the winner at the end of this post. With any luck, people who
What are the 10 ridiculous things #ADHD makes me do? The me in this case is my friend Katy Rollins. She writes one of my favorite blogs about living with Adult ADHD: 18Channels [no longer
Thanks to Tom Nardone for allowing me to re-print this post, originally entitled They Don’t Believe I Am ADHD? Oh NO!! What Ever Will I do? It originally appeared on Tom’s site, ADHD People.
When a headline features the word “drugging,” the report about ADHD that follows will not be well-balanced. Such was the case with Esquire’s recent salvo into the topic, “The Drugging of the American Boy.” Esquire joins The New
