Reviews - You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

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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

rebsrebs's review

2.0

I’m sure it was a useful resource when it was first published, but it’s very dated in a time when we know so much more about adhd.

lizfig's review

1.0

I no longer will be taking book recommendations from the person who recommended this book

lady_amelia0304's review against another edition

1.5

informative fast-paced

I can see how it was ahead of its time in 1993 but in 2025 it’s full of a rhetoric that implies you can only move forward with “recovery”. While it is validating to hear that many of the symptoms of ADHD are universal, offering suggestions such as adjusting your working hours or finding a new lower paying job, are just not realistic. I especially did not like that much of the book encourages you to “mask” your symptoms.

quinn13's review

In the forward for the updated edition, the authors talked about how well they felt the original held up (first written in the 1990s).

It does not hold up as well as they think. Their work advice largely boils down to "just change careers" and "find ways to live well on less money so that you can go part-time" and...in THIS economy?! Not great advice in 2020. They also use a lot of examples where the person with ADHD is either a stay-at-home parent or has a partner who is (and yes, the stay-at-home person is always a woman in these examples).

Some of the strategies in other arenas are useful, but honestly, I didn't get anything out of this book that I hadn't already gotten for free online.

arianenewell's review

3.0

The most helpful things about this book were the extensive case studies and examples of people and how ADD affected their lives in many different ways. I think also the drug sections and therapy possibilities were interesting and brief. However, the book could have benefited from some serious editing. And the strategies to help ADDers with organization and other areas where they need help were not well organized or nearly extensive enough.