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From Deficit to Superpowers: Is It Ableist to Focus on Neurodivergent Strengths?

By Nancy Doyle — 2021

Let’s move beyond superpowers but not forget to keep promoting our strengths.

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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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Jon L. Thomas
2025
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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.

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Patricia O. Quinn, Theresa Laurie Maitland
2011
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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.

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Dr Kathleen G Nadeau
2025
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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.

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Jonathan Mooney, David Cole, Edward M. Hallowell (foreword)
2000
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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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Judy Singer
2025
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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.

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Thomas Armstrong
2025
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The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life

After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living with her parents, heartbroken and lost, when she became convinced that her skin had turned green.

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Jen Gotch, Rachel Bertsche
2020
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Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World that Wasn’t Designed for You

As a successful Harvard- and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her “symptoms”—only ever labeled as anxiety—were considered autistic and ADHD.

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Jenara Nerenberg
2021
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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.

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Edward Hallowell
2017
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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

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Edward Hallowell
2011
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