This is video #18 in my series introducing my book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video I provide some guidelines for people with ADHD on choosing careers that maximize their strengths, and minimize their difficulties. After listing the 9 to 5...Read More

In this video, I suggest that it is quite important for us to emphasize the strengths of people with ADHD, because the label itself has three negatives in it (deficit-hyperactivity-disorder). There’s an evolutionary advantage to ADHD in that their hyperactivity, for example, was important for surviving in hunting raids on the plains (and are still...Read More

This is the sixteenth video in my series introducing my new book The Power of Neurodiversity.  In this video, I give a short history of ADHD, noting terms that were employed in the past (such as hyperkinesis, and minimal brain dysfunction), and then using a timeline to chart the growth of ADHD from a 1971...Read More

Fifteen years ago, I wrote The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain.  At the time, few people knew the term neurodiversity, and the sales of the book were slow.  However, in the past several years, neurodiversity has emerged from obscurity to become a word that seems to be on everybody’s...Read More

In this concluding video in my 12-part video series ”The Myth of the ADHD Child,” I examine the question ”Does ADHD even exist?” I approach this question from several angles, including the questions: ”Do ADHD symptoms exist?” (yes, they do), ”Does ADHD exist as a de facto disorder?” (yes, it does, it’s in the DSM),...Read More