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“I Don’t Need to Be Fixed!” Epiphanies of Self-Acceptance from Adults with ADHD

By ADDitude Editors — 2022

The path to self-acceptance is long and treacherous for adults with ADHD, many of whom mistake their symptoms for personal faults. Here, ADDitude readers share the moments they realized that they weren’t broken at all—and that their wild, wonderful ADHD brains didn’t need fixing.

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A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers

Live boldly as a woman with ADHD! This radical guide will show you how to cultivate your individual strengths, honor your neurodiversity, and learn to communicate with confidence and clarity.

Sari Solden, Michelle Frank

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Thriving at the Edge of Chaos: Making ADHD a Superpower in College and Career

Through personal experience, case studies, research, and story, the author explains the missing skill sets that lead people with ADHD to fail in post-secondary education settings like college and training – and later, in the workplace. In a concise, readable, and entertaining way Dr.

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On Your Own: A College Readiness Guide for Teens with ADHD/LD

The hard truth is that not all teens who enter college may graduate on time or at all. And often it isn’t academics and classwork that trip students up.

Patricia O. Quinn, Theresa Laurie Maitland

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Survival Guide for College Students with ADHD or LD

This useful guide for high school or college students diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or learning disabilities will provide the information they need to survive and thrive in the college setting.

Dr Kathleen G Nadeau

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Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution

Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.

Jonathan Mooney, David Cole, Edward M. Hallowell (foreword)

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NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea

Judy Singer is generally credited with the coinage of the word that became the banner for the last great social movement to emerge from the 20th century.

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The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain

ADHD. Dyslexia. Autism. The number of illness categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many people affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions on this “culture of disabilities.

Thomas Armstrong

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How to Grab the Best Job for an ADHD Brain

The second and final part of Dr. Ned Hallowell’s How to ADHD interview! This week, we discuss how to find the right job for you, and how to KEEP IT! Dr.

Edward Hallowell

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Dr. Edward Hallowell on ADHD: A Ferrari in Your Brain

Child Mind Institute Presents: The Adam Jeffrey Katz Memorial Lecture—An expert panel featuring Dr. Gail Saltz, Dr. F. Xavier Castellanos, Dr. Rachel Klein, and Dr. Edward Hallowell

Edward Hallowell

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Dr. Hallowell on ADHD: Its Negative and Positive Traits

Although Dr. Hallowell is known for talking about the advantages of having ADHD, in this video he addresses the flip side of the trait. He acknowledges why someone with ADHD could get mad at him for having the temerity to say, “having ADHD is actually a good thing.

Edward Hallowell

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