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The Creativity of ADHD

By Holly White — 2019

More insights on a positive side of a “disorder”

Read on www.scientificamerican.com

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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: How to Tap the Neurodivergent Talent Pool

Embracing neurodiversity, from ADHD to dyslexia, gives adland a creative edge.

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Brittaney Kiefer
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Stifled Creativity and Its Damaging Impact on the ADHD Brain

Creativity. It’s often cited as a valuable (but tough to harness) benefit of having ADHD. As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must carve out time to pursue your creative passions.

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Diane O’Reilly
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Billie Eilish Says Her Synethesia Inspires Her Creative Process

She also told Jimmy Fallon he appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle.”

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Bria McNeal
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Focus

SARK’s whimsical, hand-printed, hand-painted books . . . are guides for adults (kids, too) who long to play and be creative, but have forgotten how.

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Joe Brown
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Access Denied: Will Art Ever Learn to Embrace Disability?

This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.

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Siobhán Forshaw
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May 20, 1990: Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson

On May 20, 1990, Bill Watterson, creator of the beloved Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, took the podium at Kenyon College — the same stage David Foster Wallace would occupy 15 years later to deliver his memorable commencement address — and gave the graduating class a gift of equally remarkable insight...

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Maria Popova and Bill Waterson
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Surprising Benefits of Having ADHD

People with ADHD have high energy and resilience, among other strengths

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Kelly Burch
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Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship: Onyinye Udokporo Shows Us Where the Creative Flair Starts

There are legions of small and medium enterprises (SME) run by disabled and neurominority creatives and innovators, surviving, adapting and thriving in our modern economy.

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Nancy Doyle
2021
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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

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Sidney Perkowitz
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Almost Nothing, Yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life

“If you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them,” Ellen Meloy wrote in her timeless meditation on water as a portal to transcendence, “you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.”

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