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The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength by Dale Archer MD
1.75
**edit: i read this book as professional development as a student support officer for highly disengaged students, and as a person in the process of getting an adhd diagnosis in australia
single dimensioned advice that could have been found with a single google search. weirdly anti-medication and critical of the schooling system without addressing major issues. definitely a “it’s not a disability!!” book by ignoring the bad. extremely repetitive with no new points being made, lack of cohesion, and very representative of the “bingo brain”. lacks depth and academic rigour - which i suppose is expected when the full qualifications of author are not given but the “md” title is flaunted
misses a lot of the structural issues that severely affect experiences of having adhd: underdiagnosis and lack of access for many marginalised groups, wholly us-centered and not reflective of global adhders, completely missing educational inequality and lack of opportunity it underprivileged communities, and very white… this book is good if you’re a 40 year old man with a 6 figure salary in the us, not so much if you’re a 23 year old woman living paycheck to paycheck in australia (and thats STILL extremely privileged). nothing novel in here at all, just a lot of case studies and no impartial or academic research to back them up. also, just straight up ignores half of the literature on adhd???? wack
single dimensioned advice that could have been found with a single google search. weirdly anti-medication and critical of the schooling system without addressing major issues. definitely a “it’s not a disability!!” book by ignoring the bad. extremely repetitive with no new points being made, lack of cohesion, and very representative of the “bingo brain”. lacks depth and academic rigour - which i suppose is expected when the full qualifications of author are not given but the “md” title is flaunted
misses a lot of the structural issues that severely affect experiences of having adhd: underdiagnosis and lack of access for many marginalised groups, wholly us-centered and not reflective of global adhders, completely missing educational inequality and lack of opportunity it underprivileged communities, and very white… this book is good if you’re a 40 year old man with a 6 figure salary in the us, not so much if you’re a 23 year old woman living paycheck to paycheck in australia (and thats STILL extremely privileged). nothing novel in here at all, just a lot of case studies and no impartial or academic research to back them up. also, just straight up ignores half of the literature on adhd???? wack
A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout
we were told for two books it was impossible and then bros did it in three chapters
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1984 by George Orwell
3.0
sucks for me that george orwell died 6 months after this was published because i want to throw hands with him