Books like You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder

Kind of ironically, I'm going to call this one too scattered. I get that when they started, this was a work by not-so-professionals trying to get the word out when zero other material existed on the market, so they tried to cover absolutely everything.However: SO many anecdotes thrown in for a paragraph at a time and then referred to 300 pages later, so many that you kind of lose track of anything so many different types of "ADDers" are actually supposed to have in common with each other. So many different angles at trying to boost one's self-esteem that don't all match up with each other. And so many different kinds of listmaking that they seem to suggest you do all at once (thus overwhelming the easily-overwhelmed ADHD types!). All that said, some very valuable nuggets of gold for the newly diagnosed or the probably-about-to-be-diagnosed. (money line here:) I think the string of quotations I scribble into my commonplace book are going to be infinitely more valuable than this book as I experienced it in real time.The final 4 chapters of the revised edition, written after 10 years of experience as ADD life coaches and thus filled with much more concrete suggestions, might end up my favorite parts. All the stuff on meditation, exercise, pulling it together when having "an overwhelm," and ADD-specific ways to fight negative self-talk (c.f. my "Feeling Good" review) actually seem pretty useful. Hold on for my next review, which will cover a book on this subject that so far is proving far more consistent and digestible and interesting to me.