Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, reported to the Wall Street Journal that we are facing a new and dangerous form of...

Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...

Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...

The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...

In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...

While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...

ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...

Thom Hartmann, author of The Edison Gene, argues that Attention Deficit Disorder is no disorder at all, but a gift – in his words, “the...

Nothing connects one idea to another like a good metaphor. In fact, metaphor – what Douglas Hofstadter has called analogical thinking –...

It was a Sunday afternoon in 2007. She and I were sitting on the couch, watching a movie on television, having just eaten a snacky lunch...

"I feel rejection far more intensely than most people.” The last time I lost a relationship to ADD issues, I reflected long and hard...

"I may go dark for long periods of time...” I have a superpower. You have a superpower. Most ADD adults have this same superpower. It’s...

I’ve had more than one relationship knocked off-kilter by moments of inattention in the midst of important communication. I believe most...

There’s much to cover in the pages ahead, and it all hangs together around some common truths. So it’s best to put the biggest of those...

This one is big. It can happen anytime, anywhere, in any context. Our grasshopper minds are listening to others and racing at the same...

"We can have an amazing sex life!” Let’s consider a very positive, encouraging fact about adult ADD: its various features can sometimes...

"Despite everything, I don’t regret my ADD – I love it!” There are lots of pitfalls, obstructions, and challenges summarized in the...

My last long-term relationship was amazing. I’m a bookworm, as so many ADD adults are. I live for books, knowledge, new ideas. I have...

We can’t do it alone. And that’s what many ADD adults do – they try to tough it out, they try to handle all the burning bowling pins of...

The two major domains of an ADD adult’s existence are the same two that every other adult inhabits: daily existence and relationships....