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ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—from Childhood Through Adulthood by John J. Ratey, Edward M. Hallowell
3 reviews
cuteasamuntin's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
2.0
Having been diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and subsequently done a fair amount of reviewing peer-reviewed research, I was hoping to come away from this book with a new set of practical tools for self-management and supporting other ADHD people in my life. Instead, it mostly follows the “ADHD is a superpower” narrative and is oddly focused on entrepreneurship as the great ADHD calling. There is also what I would describe as a troubling amount of time spent discussing unreplicable, unproven, or outright disproven environmental triggers and experimental treatments, including discussion of low-frequency electromagnetic frequency (EMF) exposure from transmission lines, Wi-Fi, microwaves (nevermind the Faraday cage, apparently), and indoor lights as a possible environmental factor contributing to antenatal or neonatal development of ADHD.
A fair segment of this book also made me uncomfortable, as the language around bodies and food was mildly triggering with respect to my personal history of struggling with an acute eating disorder and ongoing disordered relationship with food. I would have expected the authors to be more sensitive to the subject, considering many people with ADHD have complicated relationships with food and eating as a reward and/or dopamine source.
There is very little acknowledgement of the overlap between autism and ADHD, either consideration of the high percentage of dual diagnoses or merely in symptomatic convergence. They also seem to at least tacitly accept ABA as a legitimate treatment model, even as they encourage replacing it with social learning, yet there is little discussion of practical methods for immediate management of emotional dysregulation, under- or overstimulation, or other internal struggles that contribute to social disruption beyond “run around a bit,” which is often not practical or socially permissible to do immediately for either children or adults. At least the authors don’t fall into the evolutionary psych trap of ADHD being an adaptation improving early human community safety and reproductive fitness.
That being said, I will unequivocally commend them for being proponents of medication as ADHD management and individual education plans for children with ADHD and learning/developmental disabilities in general. There was also some discussion of workplace flexibility for adults, though more robust discussion of reasonable workplace accommodations, as required by the ADA (or indeed any discussion of ADHD as a recognized disability), and how one might go about deciding what accommodations would be helpful and requesting them would have been more practical and helpful than simply recommending that people look for another job or switch careers.
A fair segment of this book also made me uncomfortable, as the language around bodies and food was mildly triggering with respect to my personal history of struggling with an acute eating disorder and ongoing disordered relationship with food. I would have expected the authors to be more sensitive to the subject, considering many people with ADHD have complicated relationships with food and eating as a reward and/or dopamine source.
There is very little acknowledgement of the overlap between autism and ADHD, either consideration of the high percentage of dual diagnoses or merely in symptomatic convergence. They also seem to at least tacitly accept ABA as a legitimate treatment model, even as they encourage replacing it with social learning, yet there is little discussion of practical methods for immediate management of emotional dysregulation, under- or overstimulation, or other internal struggles that contribute to social disruption beyond “run around a bit,” which is often not practical or socially permissible to do immediately for either children or adults. At least the authors don’t fall into the evolutionary psych trap of ADHD being an adaptation improving early human community safety and reproductive fitness.
That being said, I will unequivocally commend them for being proponents of medication as ADHD management and individual education plans for children with ADHD and learning/developmental disabilities in general. There was also some discussion of workplace flexibility for adults, though more robust discussion of reasonable workplace accommodations, as required by the ADA (or indeed any discussion of ADHD as a recognized disability), and how one might go about deciding what accommodations would be helpful and requesting them would have been more practical and helpful than simply recommending that people look for another job or switch careers.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Minor: Sexism, Ableism, and Addiction
leannanecdote's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Bullying, Medical content, and Mental illness
antonia_schuro's review
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Applicable information and suggestions. Case studies are more to relate to people and their experiences than to promote business.
Content Warnings
Minor: Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Classism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Incest, Suicide, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault
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