No request, no matter how genuine or legal, can ever rid us of it.

That’s pretty much what my ADHD has done for me already, so I won’t be needing one, thanks anyway!

I have never seen this unwrapping the gift stuff – pretty funny. Only in America!

So whaddya gonna spend your money on, an ab rocker, a juicer, Ginsu knives? Here in America we are obsessed with getting the next thing. Personally, I think we are spoiled by our abundance and lulled by too many choices that are not really different choices at all.

If the question is does this really advance our situation, to promote awareness and offer up any real help, I will not know because they will not get my $47.00 to find out. I can say that good therapists that really get it and can help are hiding from me.
Where does one turn? If you have a reading disability and are unable to sift through volumes of science and wisdom presented in books from the experts, is it a good idea to buy a distilled flashy presentation from these guys? I went to the unwrapping website all I could find was a menu to buy some of the best books ever written on the subject by all the leading exerts. If you truly are ADD, this purchase might do more for you than that ab rocker you never really got started on, if you ever get around to using it.

For me, today I would like to push the button.

I have been seeing myself slowing improving and learning about ADD, by reading posts/comments here at JEFF”S A.D.D. MIND. Gina’s book has been a life saver for me (to put it mildly).

Before I found Jeff’s blog,I found Dr.Hollowell’s,and Dr.Handelman’s web’s. A personal phrase I have been useing in my comments lately is:”I know it when i see it.” Here what I saw after i email’ed the Dr.’s,and told my story about the road to my diag. of ADD.>An overload of promotions,and “Great Deals” in my email. I thought my screen may be damaged from the overload(not to mention my eyes,and brain),so much so,I had to block them from my email. Never did I receive any email in response to my questions and personal concerns. But I did “Unwrap” salesmen.

Andrew,

I noticed in one of your comments to Gina,you mentioned that you have read Gina’s book. I am reading Gina’s book and am “Seeing it” by reading slowly,and making sure I am “Seeing” what She has discovered in her expeiriance and research on the subject of ADD.

I see, most of your questions/comments to her about her opinion and response to your comments, are in her book. I hope I have helped you,and I admire your dedication to help others to understand,and deal with ADD!

Scott.

I so enjoyed meeting you at the conference. Thanks for coming and for introducing yourself.

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thanks for the clarification. Of course our particular brain writing influences our personality — or IS our personality.

But my point is that 1) there’s much more to a person than ADHD and 2)ADHD manifests so differently among the individuals who have it, we just cannot make any one-size-fits-all claims.

For every person with ADHD who has a love of travel, cooking skills, books and movies, and who is successful in business, there are many others who are too disorganized (or broke) to leave home, who can’t sequence well enough to cook a meal, who can’t sustain interest in a book or movie, and who flops at every business scheme attempted.

The danger in painting rosy pictures about ADHD is that we leave out a lot of people with ADHD whose lives aren’t so rosy. So, how does this help them? And how doe it help the public develop understanding and empathy towards those who aren’t running a successful business, laying a great spread on the table, etc. (“David Neeleman started an airline, and you can’t even get up in the morning….you can’t have ADHD!” )

Okay, I’m checking out for a few weeks. Looking forward to limping through London on my gimpy foot.

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I look forward to seeing you at ADDISS. Please do say hi!