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How to ADHD

An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

by Jessica McCabe
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.
“The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many years. If there’s a fairy godmother of our lot, it’s Jessica McCabe.”—Edward Hallowell, MD, coauthor of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0
Forget “try harder.” When your brain works differently, you need to try different.
 
Diagnosed with ADHD at age twelve, Jessica struggled with a brain that she didn’t understand. She lost things constantly, couldn’t finish projects, and felt like she was putting more effort in than everyone around her while falling further and further behind. At thirty-two years old—broke, divorced, and living with her mom—Jessica decided to look more deeply into her ADHD challenges. She reached out to experts, devoured articles, and shared her discoveries on YouTube.
 
In How to ADHD, Jessica reveals the tools that have changed her life while offering an unflinching look at the realities of living with ADHD. The key to navigating a world not built for the neurodivergent brain, she discovered, isn’t to fix or fight against its natural tendencies but to understand and work with them. She explains how ADHD affects everyday life, covering executive function impairments, rejection sensitivity, difficulties with attention regulation, and more. You’ll also find ADHD-specific strategies for adapting your environment, routines, and systems, including:
 
• Boost the signal and decrease the noise. Facilitate focus by putting your goals where you can see them and fighting distractions with distractions.
• Have less stuff to manage. Learn why you have trouble planning and prioritizing, and why doing more starts with doing less.
• Build your “time wisdom.” Work backward when you plan, and track how long it actually takes you to do something.
• Learn about your emotions. Understand how naming your emotions and letting yourself experience them can make them easier to regulate.
 
With quotes from Jessica’s online community, chapter summaries, and reading shortcuts designed for the neurodivergent reader, How to ADHD will help you recognize your strengths and challenges, tackle “bad brain days,” and be kinder to yourself in the process.

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  • Release date

    January 2, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780593578957

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780593578957
      • File size: 6794 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2023

      Creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How To ADHD, McCabe was diagnosed with ADHD at age 12 and, having dropped out of college twice and changed jobs 15 times by age 32, finally sought out experts whose advice she shares here. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from April 1, 2024

      This might be McCabe's first book, but she's been immersed in the world of ADHD since her own diagnosis at age 12. Alongside the work she's done to understand her brain and how it functions, in 2015 she started "How To ADHD," one of the most popular YouTube channels dedicated to the topic. This book is an extension of her work; a true manual and toolbox for people who struggle to learn. McCabe explains the basics of ADHD, focus, and hyperfocus, and writes extensively and clearly about executive functioning. She gives examples of how and why people with ADHD struggle with different tasks and suggests concrete actions that build skills, like ways to improve sleep, manage time, and improve working memory and motivation. In addition to the helpful content, the book has an ADHD-friendly style; short paragraphs, plenty of white space, and bullet points to keep readers organized. There are contributions from real people--"brains," as she calls them--whose perspective on managing ADHD in friendships, romantic relationships, and on the job are invaluable. VERDICT The inclusive language and accessible tone, along with McCabe's knowledge and exhaustive research, make this smart and timely take on ADHD a necessity.--Erin Dagenais

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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