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You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Peggy Ramundo, Kate Kelly
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.