ADHD Resources

  • The Disruptors (a documentary film about ADHD). Their tagline: Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About ADHD
  • This two-part Ologies podcast about ADHD by Alie Ward has a lot of information. It’s long, but well worth a listen.
  • There are a lot of ADHDers posting content on Instagram about their day-to-day lives. I [Elizabeth] like it because it feels so “real” to me as opposed to more formal articles you might find elsewhere. I often share their postings in my stories. A good way to find people is to search hashtags like: #ADHD #adhdParenting #adhdProblems #Neurodivergent #adhdAwareness #adhdMom …. I think you get the idea! A few I’ve found particularly helpful: @ADHDJesse, @MattRaekelboom, @ADHD_Alien, @DaniDonovan, @ADHDElite, @ADHD_Love_
  • In September 2022, Harpers Bazaar published this article: Coming Into Focus about adult women with ADHD. The author, Carla Ciccone, is also working on a book.
  • How the ADHD Brain Works – A downloadable e-book from ADDitude Magazine. At times repetitive, but when I read it I kept thinking, THIS is my kid! A related note…. ADDitude’s website offers a TON of resources – online articles, webinars, a magazine, social media groups, links to professional resources, free downloads, newsletters, and a lot more.
  • ADHD, Clarified: New Research and Essential Strategies for Thriving with ADHD” [Video Replay & Podcast #348. Originally broadcast on March 25, 2021.] This is an episode with Edward M Hallowell MD who wrote ADHD 2.0, and John J Ratey MD who wrote Driven to Distraction .
  • Real People, Real ADHD: Stories of Struggles, Success, and Inspiration – By Merle Kaplan M.A., Peter Jaksa Ph.D. True to its title…everyday people and their challenges, successes, and struggles with ADHD. Everyone from tenured professors and home aid workers to entrepreneurs, college students, and tax attorney. If you’re looking for a better understanding of how ADHD shows up in people’s lives, this is a good way to peek inside their world. 
  • Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD – by Timothy Denevi. A memoir and history of the medical and psychological community’s understanding and history of treating ADHD. Denevi narrates his childhood – his impulses, frustrations, and successes both in school and at home intertwined with the psychologists and psychiatrists that have influenced and shaped the ways in which millions of children and young adults (and their parents!) navigate an ADHD diagnosis. 
  • plAyDHD: Permission to Play…..a Prescription for Adults With ADHD – by Dr. Kirsten Milliken. A psychologist and ADHD coach, Miliken writes from personal experience as someone who has ADHD and who works as a clinical psychologist. Her prescription is to go play and gamify life. My son already does a lot of these things and some of them don’t interest him, but Milliken offers a lot of great ideas about how to live with, manage, and harness play to find meaningful, positive, and rewarding ways to live with ADHD.
  • DIRTY LAUNDRY: Why adults with ADHD are so ashamed and what we can do to help – by Mr Richard Pink and Miss Roxanne Emery. I’m not sure I love the subtitle, but I do love their Instagram account. It’s “in the trenches” advice from a woman who has ADHD, her real world struggles, her partner’s gentle insights, and their willingness to be so honest about it all while having a sense of humor. On the days I feel like crying or pulling my hair out in trying to understand my son’s struggles, this is the book I plan to turn to again and again. It’s got helpful insights and reminders that I still need even though I now “get” my son’s struggles.