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Dr. Hallowell on Stimulants, ADHD and Should You Be Concerned?

By Edward Hallowell — 2018

This video is about stimulant medication, more specifically the general stigma that steers people away from trying them as part of treatment for ADHD. See more...

06:17 min

Neurodivergent People and Time Perception

As Neurodivergent people, our differences in executive functioning skills such as focus and attention, emotional and impulse control, working memory, planning, and organization can all be linked to our distinct perception of time.

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Agustina C.M.
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A Note on ADHD and Self-Acceptance

When you let yourself settle into the totality of who you are, when you stop trying to find a replacement for yourself, when you push back against the familiar tangles of shame, you will find that managing your challenges becomes much more simple.

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Michelle Frank
2019
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How Adults With ADHD Can Boost Their Confidence and Self-Esteem

Research has found that people with ADHD can be highly resilient and may be able to adapt constantly, so no matter what your history is, change is possible.

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Jacqueline Sinfield
2020
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“I Don’t Need to Be Fixed!” Epiphanies of Self-Acceptance from Adults with ADHD

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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ADDitude Editors
2022
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What Is Neurodiversity?

Neurodiversity advocates suggest there’s too much attention on the impairments that come with conditions like ADHD. They think a better approach is to focus on what someone’s good at, not what they lack.

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Keri Wiginton
2021
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Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties

In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks.

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Scott Barry Kaufman (editor)
2025
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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled: Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD, ASD, and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students.

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Susan M. Baum, Robin Schader, Steven V. Owen
2017
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Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities: Strategies to Succeed in School and Life with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and Processing Disorders

Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Daniel Franklin
2025
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The ADD/ADHD Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers

The bestselling guide, fully revised and updated, offering practical information and tips to help every child with ADHD succeed The ADD/ADHD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with attention problems and provide the kind of support and intervention...

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Sandra F. Rief
2008
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The Sensory Processing Anthology: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents and Caregivers of Sensational Kids

Sensory processing disorder (SPD) has been likened to a "neurological traffic jam," and occurs when sensory information is not received or transmitted appropriately within the brain enabling a child to organize, assimilate and make sense of the world.

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Martha Ohler-Guerrero
2015
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