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You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
Peggy Ramundo, Kate Kelly
3.5 AVERAGE
59 reviews for:
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
Peggy Ramundo, Kate Kelly
3.5 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Contains excellent reminders for me as well as informing my interactions with my ADD students. This book was clearly a labor of love by the two authors. However, at times it's a real slog, and it's not meant for people with graduate degrees in the field.
informative
medium-paced
DNF!
I was so excited to start reading this book and gain valuable insight into my ADHD since it was consistently well recommended online!!!!
- The writing style made me want to rip my hair out!!!!!
- Reminiscent of me trying to describe my bizarre dreams to my husband, going into too much detail, & emphasizing everything as important to the plot!!!!
- They say they structured the book in a way that’s helpful for people with ADHD and somehow made it worse!!!!
- Too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Weird spacing between paragraphs that made me lose track of what they were saying!!!!!!
- Clearly a self-help book written 2 decades ago that would’ve been helpful then!!!
- Pretty sure I get more useful insight from memes.
I was so excited to start reading this book and gain valuable insight into my ADHD since it was consistently well recommended online!!!!
- The writing style made me want to rip my hair out!!!!!
- Reminiscent of me trying to describe my bizarre dreams to my husband, going into too much detail, & emphasizing everything as important to the plot!!!!
- They say they structured the book in a way that’s helpful for people with ADHD and somehow made it worse!!!!
- Too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Weird spacing between paragraphs that made me lose track of what they were saying!!!!!!
- Clearly a self-help book written 2 decades ago that would’ve been helpful then!!!
- Pretty sure I get more useful insight from memes.
I’m not entirely sure who this book is written for—someone recently repatriated from a jungle? It’s full of ostensibly ADHD-focused “life advice” that vacillates exclusively between “way too generalized to be remotely useful” and “so highly overspecific that it comes off sociopathic.” It also has a weird relationship with the word “work”: it’s always trying to drive home the importance of “working on your ADHD” and that it’s “hard work” and you’re going to really need to “buckle down,” but then it spends part of a chapter taking about how you may want to consider putting in less hours at your job, if that helps you? It’s not that these two concepts are opposed just because they share a set of common words, but, I don’t know, couldn’t you have thought of another way to frame the management of ADHD in a way that probably wouldn’t trigger the same feelings of inadequacy you go way out of your way to highlight in ADHD workers?
It doesn’t help that the authors never waste an opportunity to say something simple idiomatically, perhaps especially because the belabored folksiness is straight out of the mid-90s and has aged like an episode of Friends.
Look, it’s hard to fault the book if it actually gave you something valuable or helped you come to terms with your ADHD or made you feel less alone. But it didn’t do any of those things for me, and one man’s pedagogy is another man’s condescension.
It doesn’t help that the authors never waste an opportunity to say something simple idiomatically, perhaps especially because the belabored folksiness is straight out of the mid-90s and has aged like an episode of Friends.
Look, it’s hard to fault the book if it actually gave you something valuable or helped you come to terms with your ADHD or made you feel less alone. But it didn’t do any of those things for me, and one man’s pedagogy is another man’s condescension.
This book really shows how differently we see ADHD today. The book was very accusatory, urging ADHDers to change themselves to appear neurotypical. Books like these can be very harmful. I’m glad these outdated opinions aren’t the reality anymore.
Pros: informative, some good suggestions and info, extremely validating
Cons: very dense (it took me ages to finish), scattered, a bit dated
The last four chapters were the most helpful, having been written later and including more concrete solutions and suggestions.
Cons: very dense (it took me ages to finish), scattered, a bit dated
The last four chapters were the most helpful, having been written later and including more concrete solutions and suggestions.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
The first part might be useful in seeing if you might have ADD/ADHD but a lot of the subsequent advise boils down to forcing yourself to be more normal through routines, time management, and a dash of positivity (like just bounce of out bed first thing in the morning and you'll be good to go!). Anyway after reading the first few chapters I skimmed the rest and realized there wasn't anything very applicable for. me.
This was not the book for me- it is very basic basics. I am still looking for my 201 level book, but this not it.