Myth #9: ADHD medication should be reserved only for severe cases. Who made that rule? Who knows. Sounds Puritanical. You might have heard ADHD called a spectrum condition. That is, it exhibits in varying degrees …
Early in my advocacy, I noticed a connection between ADHD and nicotine. Specifically, the adults in my local discussion group who had smoked cigarettes as teens and young adults reported the least “baggage” from undiagnosed …
Is there a connection between ADHD and this phenomenon called gaslighting? Potentially. But, as with most ADHD-related topics, it’s complicated. I’m seeing more talk of gaslighting in an ADHD context. In website articles. In social-media …
Benzedrine is not today a stimulant used to treat ADHD. But it was used to treat many things—perhaps including unrecognized ADHD—in the past. Maybe you’re too young to have heard the song, “Who Put the …
Did Mrs. Murphy Abuse Benzedrine? Or Did She Have ADHD? Read More »
Could Anne of Green Gables have ADHD? How about Pastor Meredith? We’ve all experienced it: While watching a movie, reading a book, or listening to a song, we recognize….ADHD. Even if the creator of that …
Netflix’s Take Your Pills, produced by Maria Shriver and daughter, is more shock-umentary than documentary. Shame on all of them, because they are shameless. Yes, friends, it’s that time again: A feeding frenzy on ADHD …
Netflix’s “Take Your Pills”: Anti-Science—and Mean Read More »
By Taylor J., guest writer It’s a pernicious myth, this idea that stimulant medications are dangerous. In fact, it has been repeated so often, it’s largely accepted as fact. Yet, just as with Uncle …
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 …
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.” …
— What do the words ADHD, low empathy, and narcissist have in common? Potentially, more than many people realize. When we consider the negative chatter around “drugging children” for ADHD, what gets lost? Compassion—for these …
ADHD and Lacking Empathy: Was I Raising a Narcissist? Read More »
