So… I’m not diagnosed with any form of ADHD or ASD, but I do often feel like I’m not neurotypical. If I am then I’m very high-functioning, with enough coping strategies that you probably wouldn’t notice.
But I have a pile of books about topics like this ready to go.
Jesse J Anderson is what I would call an “ADHD influencer”. He’s big on social media, and ended up writing this short book, Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD.
It covers both what ADHD is like, and it has a load of short practical strategies for coping with it.
It’s a short, concise book, which is great for people who struggle to focus on long rambling stories. It is to-the-point and Iove it as a result.
It’s the kind of book that you will refer to over and over again to revisit the strategies as and when you need them. I almost wish I had a paper copy. I really recommend it.
As I read this book I felt myself thinking a lot: What, you mean, most people DON’T experience that?
People don’t find All The New Things interesting and love to dive in deep to a random new field of study or creativity?
People don’t get focussed so deep on things that “you’re afraid that if you try to redirect your focus anywhere else, you’ll disrupt your momentum and never get it back”?
People don’t find themselves wandering off on the more interesting tangential piece of work?
They don’t “primarily find motivation through interest, novelty, challenge, and urgency”?
They don’t like to have a messy desk with work actually on it and a load of open tabs because “hoarding is actually a form of self-preservation. Why? Because we often forget things we can’t see.”
I left me feeling more and more certain of my own probable “neuro-spicyness”. But also gave me a pile of new coping strategies! Hooray!
The book also came with a bunch of introductory emails with extra information that was helpful. A really neat addition! Thanks, Jesse!