A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers

I’m a guy and I found this book very helpful. Trying to understand a persons behavior is not easy and this book helped me develop my sense of empathy for the different struggles women with adhd experience.

Never in my adult life as a woman, have I found a tool so useful and empowering in regards to my ADHD, which has been absolutely debilitating in the past. I recommend this book to everybody I know who struggles with ADHD symptoms, as well as to the people who love them and want to understand them. My perspective on ADHD has shifted to the point that I hardly notice it as an inconvenience. I feel much more acceptance, ease and joy in my life, and a general sense of optimism and excitement for the days to come. The authors, having ADHD themselves, normalize and empathize with the ADHD brain, using authenticity, life experience and deep knowledge/understanding. The thing is, you will have to invest time into this book since it is a workbook, I know that’s not easy for the ADHD brain, I just set a timer 20 minute timer to read and reflect on the prompts every morning that I woke up and finished the book in about a month. Better than all the other therapy I’ve paid for, combined!

We ADHDers do things differently. We feel things intensely ( I feel negative emotions as physical pain). We are excited by the things that interest us, and avoid ( like the plague) the boring stuff of life. Our lives can be very, very messy and chaotic, and some people have problems with that. Society puts a ton of pressure on us to be a certain way, wake up between certain hours and have certain types of jobs. I don't know what it's like for every ADHDer, but my symptoms are on the more extreme end. I was diagnosed at age 37 ( a few months ago) so for most of my life, I wondered wtf was wrong with me and tried desperately to hid my flaws from others. My two most embarassing things about myself is the fact I have a very abnormal sleep schedule ( delayed sleep phase syndrome) so I honestly come alive at night, like Nosferatu or something. I then sleep in late ( don't ask what time) and I have to have family come in to wake me up because no way in hell I can do it myself. The other issue I have is I'm messy as hell. I don't personally mind this. I'm not a hoarder and I have an order to my disarray. But my Mother- who still seems to live in the 50s- places a woman's self worth partially on her cleaning skills. Anyhow, I was married to someone for 14 years who accepted and validated me...until he had an affair and left my daughter and I to fend for ourselves. It was that low point in my life where all of a sudden my flaws became magnified. What if I had been normal? Would he have cheated on me? What if I had been less emotional/irrational? This was a challenging time for me and I'm still trying to figure out how to get back to accepting myself WHILE simultaneously improving myself. That's where this book comes in. The book isn't actually about changing who you are. It's about accepting yourself, with all of your ADHD quirks. It does this while simultaneously acknowledging our struggles. It's honestly not healthy to fight and judge yourself based on the fact you have an overactive nervous system and brain. This book teaches you how to love and accept yourself, and to question the 'shoulds' that society forces upon everyone. Highly recommend this book to anyone struggling right now with both accepting themselves and with fitting into society.

This book has really given me insight into my past as well as my present when it comes to being a woman with ADHD. It was recommended to me by my psychologist, and I am glad I took her advice and bought it! I didn't realize it was a workbook, so I would have preferred to have bought it in a paperback format rather than as an ebook - just be aware that it isn't a "guide" in the self-help sense, but rather a workbook requiring you to actively participate and journal as you go. The writing is compassionate, engaging, and straightforward, which has kept me focused on it as I write out my journal entries and reflect on the insightful questions asked by the author(s). I haven't found any comparable books about ADHD - the targeting and scope of this title is certainly unique and fills a gap in the bookshelf for me. The things I have come to realize and the emotions I've worked through thanks to this book will be with me for life. Thank you to the author(s) for creating such an important and helpful tool!

Love this book. Currently reading as part of a book group.

If your english is sufficient to get all the content and you or one of the girls / ladies / women OR men (hang on guys, there is things to profit from in it for us as well) i highly recommend reading this. The authors blow a breach in many a topic. The first and obvious still is an issue - even in the so called first world. "Women got ADHD". A sentence that STILL causes 50 - 60 % of all psychiatrists and 70% of psychologists to either laugh or yawn. The hints in here - find your skills, find friends with matching skills, team up (in business or leisure) are worth the books price times tenthousand. As for the "wtf should a man do with this book?" - i can hear you. Remember having issues beeing part of teams? Remember beeing picked the latest and moist likely not for your preferred position in team topics? Well, here you can find answers, guys.

Boken är givande och läkande, kanske speciellt när man gått igenom livet utan att förstå vad som känns fel. Rekommenderar alla kvinnor med adhd att läsa den!

After being diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 48, I was a bit lost. I had so many questions but mostly I just wanted to figure out where to go from here. Other books were too “pop psychology” for me, or not geared towards the specific challenges that come with being an adult female. This book is written with such care and understanding, and left me feeling more positive about the future and how to handle life in general. My copy is full of sticky notes and dog-eared pages. I would really recommend this book, whether it’s your first book on the topic or even if you’ve read everything else but felt like something was missing. The format is excellent as well with neurodivergent-friendly chapter takeaways.

This is helpful if your ready to sit down and read for quite some time as it take a bit to get going but is definitely worth its weight for sure!