Maybe a teacher said it first. Maybe it was a quiz you took online at two in the morning. Maybe you said it to yourself, staring at your fifth new hobby of the year, with the other four gathering dust behind you. I think I have ADHD.
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Somebody probably said it first. A teacher, a parent, a partner, a colleague. Or a quiz said it, one of the ones you take at two in the morning when your fifth new interest of the year is lighting you up and the other four are gathering dust behind you. I think I have ADHD.
This book is for the person who has said that sentence and does not know what to do with it.
Two things need to be said before anything else, and they are not in tension.
The first: ADHD is real. It is one of the best-studied conditions in psychiatry, it affects hundreds of millions of adults, it is diagnosed by qualified professionals through a proper evaluation, and for the people who have it, diagnosis and treatment can change a life. Nothing in this book is a diagnosis, a substitute for one, or an argument that ADHD is merely a creative temperament with a bad reputation.
That is the opening of 30 pages.