The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength

Lots of medication-bashing in this book. Lots of anecdotal stories about athletes and businesspeople with ADHD, which I quickly find tiresome (especially when something is read slowly- hello, we have ADHD, want to speed it up a little?? I listened at 1.5x speed the whole time!). I realized that 3 hours in, the only thing I had really heard was that meds are bad- with the obligatory caveats). i still listened to the whole thing, but it the end the main take-aways were stay really busy (although there was a glorification of risk-taking in this that I did not like at all) and exercise every day. Yeah, ok, I disagreed with a number of conclusions that the author came to, particularly because he seemed to focus on the traditional hyperactive type of ADHDer, which particularly for women often does not apply, or does not apply cleanly. There was a cavalier assumption that ADHDers are more resilient, which perhaps some are, but this certainly does not apply to all, and it does those who have trouble in this area a disservice. In sum, this is the least useful book I've listened to on ADHD, and the medication-bashing was frankly offensive to me (eg no TV ads didn't sway me at all- I don't have a TV). Delivered from Distraction was excellent, as was the amazing ADHD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life- which went way beyond organizing one's space (I ordered a hard copy after listening to the audiobook it was so goo).

A lot of Good Information.

Very slow and repetitive with the examples making it seem like people just cruised in to the careers of their choice.