As well as posting a recent review of my own book Better Late Than Never on adult ADHD – I wanted to highly recommend a fantastic new book out by Kat Brown called “It’s Not a Bloody Trend!” (love that title). It launched this February, and I have already finished it because it is a galloping and brilliant piece of writing. It successfully brings together different voices as well as Kat’s own nuanced but never sorry-for-herself exploration of her own ADHD. Even when she described her nickname as “Robogob” at school, which made me drop the book with a cruel hoot, she is measured in her approach in how neurodiversity has affected her life.
The research that has gone into the book is properly thorough, and she has got a good variety of people involved from the esteemed CEO of the ADHD Foundation Dr Tony Lloyd to the average Joe, and there are plenty of interviews so everyone’s experience is valid.
Anyone who is exploring their own ADHD would do well to buy this, because it genuinely adds to the sum of human understanding on this complex neurological difference, and my link above is to the Bookshop.org because I don’t use Amazon (they don’t pay tax in this country and have devastated sales in High Street Bookshops). Copies bought through Bookshop.org donate to a fund for independent booksellers, and over £3.4m has been donated to date through them.
When Dr Ned Hallowell, the ADHD expert from America, came to the UK – I was surprised to learn that he controlled his own ADD symptoms with coffee rather than medication. Any ADHDer is likely to LOVE coffee, or have an on-off relationship with it, knowing that overly wired means that you just do stupid things faster. Here is a neuroscientist explaining how to use coffee to your best advantage….
Better Late than Never 