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Divergent Mind
- Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed for You
- Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD is the first guided workbook for women with ADHD designed to break the cycle of negative self-talk and shame-based narratives that stem from the common and limiting belief that brain differences are character flaws. In this unique guide, you'll find a groundbreaking approach that blends traditional ADHD treatment with contemporary treatment methods, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), to help you untangle yourself from the beliefs that have kept you from reaching your potential in life.
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Excellent Resource For Managing ADHD And Thriving
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Finally someone who gets it.
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Very well written and important book.
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A unique look at women and girls with autism spectrum disorder. The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has largely gone unresearched and unreported until recently. In this audiobook Sarah Hendrickx has collected both academic research and personal stories about girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their feelings, thoughts and experiences at each stage of their lives.
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Wonderful, honest, entertaining!
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A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD
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Excellent Resource For Managing ADHD And Thriving
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Finally someone who gets it.
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Wonderful, honest, entertaining!
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A "must-read"
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Ever feel like your brain has gotten stuck in a tumble dryer? You know, your hairdryer is missing and your alarm clock has gone off for the third time. You trip over the presumably missing hairdryer and reach for your phone, just to realize that you might have misplaced it as well. While searching for it, you get distracted by a million other tasks that require your attention before realizing that yes, it happened again. Well, if you’ve been formally diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, then you know exactly what I mean, and this book is for you!
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Not ADHD friendly
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this book is affirming
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Rudy Simone covers 22 common areas of confusion for someone dating a female with AS and includes advice from her own experience and from other partners in real relationships. She talks with humour and honesty about the quirks and sensitivities that you may come across when getting to know your partner. All the pivotal relationship landmarks are discussed, including the first date, sex and even having children.
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Written from the inside by a person who himself has ADD, with the wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of ADD as a genetically based illness, offering real hope and advice for children and adults who live with this disorder.
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WOW
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Written by: Gabor Maté MD
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Women with Attention Deficit Disorder
- Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life
- Written by: Sari Solden
- Narrated by: Sari Solden
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Every year, millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women go undiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder because they don't fit the stereotypical profile: they're not fast-talking, hyperactive, or inattentive, and they are not male. Sari Solden's groundbreaking study reveals that ADHD affects just as many women as men, and that the resulting depression, disorganization, anxiety, and underachievement are also symptoms of ADHD. Newly revised and updated to reflect the latest clinical research, the book explores treatment and counseling options and more.
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Excellent book! Better at 1.2x playback speed
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Written by: Sari Solden
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Women with ADHD
- A Life-Changing Guide to Overcome the Hidden Struggles of Living with ADHD - Includes Debunked Myths and 15 Effective Tips to Positively Transform Your Life
- Written by: Roberta Sanders
- Narrated by: Monica Wolfkill VO
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Don’t let ADHD symptoms hold you back. Gain the skills you need to achieve your goals with help from this book. Women are as likely as men to have ADHD, and the latest research suggests that ADHD in women causes even greater emotional turmoil. This book doesn’t force you to do anything you’re not ready to do. You have all the time in the world to complete it, and you do it on your terms and at your speed. It's time to change your life! Learn how to turn your fear and self-doubt into confidence and self-love.
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Might be better on paper
- By Maddie on 2021-10-01
Written by: Roberta Sanders
Publisher's Summary
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women - those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder - exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.
As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her "symptoms" - only ever labeled as anxiety - were considered autistic and ADHD. Being a journalist, she dove into the research and uncovered neurodiversity - a framework that moves away from pathologizing "abnormal" versus "normal" brains and instead recognizes the vast diversity of our mental makeups.
When it comes to women, sensory processing differences are often overlooked, masked, or mistaken for something else entirely. Between a flawed system that focuses on diagnosing younger, male populations, and the fact that girls are conditioned from a young age to blend in and conform to gender expectations, women often don't learn about their neurological differences until they are adults, if at all. As a result, potentially millions live with undiagnosed or misdiagnosed neurodivergences, and the misidentification leads to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and shame. Meanwhile, we all miss out on the gifts their neurodivergent minds have to offer.
Divergent Mind is a long-overdue, much-needed answer for women who have a deep sense that they are "different". Sharing real stories from women with high sensitivity, ADHD, autism, misophonia, dyslexia, SPD, and more, Nerenberg explores how these brain variances present differently in women and dispels widely-held misconceptions (for example, it's not that autistic people lack sensitivity and empathy, they have an overwhelming excess of it).
Nerenberg also offers us a path forward, describing practical changes in how we communicate, how we design our surroundings, and how we can better support divergent minds. When we allow our wide variety of brain makeups to flourish, we create a better tomorrow for us all.
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- Jenny Chiu
- 2020-08-29
Beautiful
I needed this book so badly. I cried when it came to the end. Not in a bad way, but because I felt I had truly been seen. Ladies, if you suspect or have known for most of your life that you have something different about you, then get thee this book!
6 people found this helpful
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- Samantha Caissie
- 2021-04-22
Amazing!
loved it! Thank you for all the research and connections made. This book will serve those who are neurodivergant, and those who want to have a better understanding of diversity in our world.
2 people found this helpful
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- Nicholas G.
- 2021-03-10
Informative and life changing
Literally broke down in tears during parts of this book because I finally have words for my experience in the world. This information would have changed my life if I had have found it sooner. Since exploring this book I have found a new understanding with myself and with my partner. Highly recommend!
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- Robert James Kopperud
- 2021-07-28
Interesting contents, dull narrator
The main strength of this book is that it focuses primarily on neurodivergent women, a population that is usually overlooked. Aiming to cover all of neurodivergence in one single, fairly short book is rather ambitious, so this book will be most interesting to people who know little about neurodivergence or some of its aspects, like HSP or SPD. The weakness of the audiobook is the voice of the narrator, who speaks in a really dull, robotic AI manner, which makes it a bit challenging to really get hooked into the otherwise interesting contents of the book.
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- Mountain mama
- 2021-07-05
Pivotal
I'm finding difficulty putting in to words the value of this book... It has provided me with an entirely new perspective. If you're on the fence about whether or not to listen, go for it! If you don't like it you can always return it, no questions asked.
On the other hand, it might just change the way you view the world and yourself in it.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-05-29
Validating and Refreshing
Writing is informative, assertive and aspirational. Liked how narrator subtly differentiates voices of individuals interviewed.
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- Cierra Mansergh
- 2021-05-02
Truly great
Never felt so seen before, cried through the indoctrination. This book is a game changer!
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- vashti
- 2021-03-25
Deeply affirming
I just keep seeing myself in this book, in ways I never expected. I am only half way through, and know I’ll be listening to it again. I imagine it’s one I’ll recommend my loved ones as well, when I decide to talk to them about my own neuro-divergence.
As a health care provider, counsellor, and researcher - as well as on a deeply personal level - I am SO GRATEFUL for this book. 🙏🏼
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- Heide Schulz
- 2023-01-18
Very enlightening
I quite like the approach the book has on the sensory needs of neurodivergent people. I never considered the sensory needs I might have which when not tended to result in harmful behaviours. Easy listen and very informative.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-01-02
I feel so seen after experiencing this book!
This book has forever changed the way I view my childhood, my mental health, my relationships, my mothering and my career!!! Finally I have answers to my long standing questions about why can’t cope with life. Finally, here’s a soft pillow for my life long shame and self doubt to land on!! Thank you for this book!
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- Somebody
- 2020-06-24
Provided no insight
Plot is: author is smart; goes to ivy league; graduates; cannot keep a job; realizes has issue X; turns out lots of people at ivy league schools have issue x; btw issue x is not understood because of white males; did we mention lots of people smarter than you have issue x? The end. issue X is female autism but the story line could have been replaced with any issue. I was looking for concrete understanding about a loved one with autism, not a name dropping book. I guess I need to keep looking.
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- Carine
- 2020-08-29
OMG! This is a brilliant ray of hope!
While the narration could have been more animated, I guess the monotone is actually appropriate for those of us who have been told we have robotic sounding voices.
That aside, this book was EXACTLY what I needed to hear at this VERY moment. I am 59 years old and have been struggling all of my life being told by family, friends, and mental health professionals that there is inherently something fundamentally wrong with me. I have been misdiagnosed repeatedly, prescribed what seems like EVERY psychotropic under the sun--new, old, and experimental, and even talked into 12 ECT treatments. None of these helped. All of them harmed. I've been through talk therapy, CBT, DBT, and EMDR with marginal positive results. FINALLY, this book is suggesting that I'm just different rather than damaged at the core of my being. All I've ever wanted was to be accepted and given the appropriate tools to be the best person I can be. This book is the confirmation of that being all I ever needed.
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- The OTHER Barb
- 2020-07-26
I can’t remember
I can’t remember ever feeling so much gratitude for so sustained an amount of time- start to finish. This book treats the inner worlds of NDW as rich, beautiful, and important, worthy of investigation, in many ways directly because of their neurological make up and the gifts it brings. Until this I can’t remember reading a book that does not treat women with mental health differences as people who are either overcoming or not overcoming deficiencies, or even people defined by their behavior at all. In fact, this book doesn’t even focus on behavior or deficiencies at all! But on these individuals perspectives of the world, their experiences, the ways their neurology have been assets to them and those around them, and the hurdles they’ve jumped navigating a world that would actually do better for all by meeting their needs a little better. Honestly, this book treats these women and their inner worlds the way books like this have historically treated men, who at least had the potentiality of brilliant genius built into the spectrum, and who didn’t have their entire life defined by how hard social norms are for them, and weather or not they can learn to form lasting relationships. I had no idea until reading this how much those books shaped my self image, and my thoughts around wellness and even my purpose in learning about my autism, until this book shined a spotlight in. I’m just so grateful. And relieved.
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- Hannah Crazyhawk
- 2020-04-06
Wonderful!
As an Autistic, highly sensitive individual, I truly enjoyed this book. It helped me feel more at peace with my own neurodiversity.
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- Melissa
- 2021-07-05
Important paradigm shift but hypocritical and exclusionary
The critique of modern psychiatry is valid and important. So is documenting and making mainstream the traits of “highly sensitive people.” Thankful for that.
The book also lacks a racial justice framework, fails to identify clear patterns of what’s described as neurodivergent/sensory processing difficulties, fails to disentangle behaviors, discomfort, or challenges stemming from sensory processing and neurodivergence from other ones.
For example it’s unclear to me if the author is documenting sensory processing difficulties and their "misdiagnosis" and inappropriate treatment. or if this is a muddled defense of the author's harrowing experience as a human being and perfectionist; intended audience white women with graduate degrees. Author used social justice framing to complain about women being left out of narratives and agendas in psychiatry and compiles interviews from women with degrees from Harvard, yale.
the demographic interviewed seems to be “high-achieving” women who have had access to psychiatry, school resources, and a plethora of doctors even since since childhood. People who are labeled low-achievers; people who are low or working class seem to be left out. This is problematic since this paradigm catches on, accommodations will be made for those with the most privilege. Major oversight.
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- Jacob A. Nordby
- 2021-02-23
Revealing
I’m a guy. This book was written specifically for women and the author does a great job of explaining why that’s so. I have many women of various ages in my life who have shared aspects of the struggles that the author describes. As I listened to the descriptions of highly sensitive people, sensory processing differences, ADD, autism, and more, I also found myself looking in the mirror. I found that comforting and revealing in the ways that gentle self-discovery can be. As an HSP myself and having children with autism or other neuro-divergent traits, I felt a lot of relief that these things are coming up for discussion and acceptance. I’ve already shared this book with several people in my life, with thanks to my HSP sister who shared it with me.
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- R Franson
- 2020-09-30
A revelation
I will definitely be getting a hard copy as well as an additional copy for my sister. I also think it applies so much to my dad but it’s very targeted to women so I might try to find a book that isn’t specifically about women to give to him.
I realized while reading this that I beat myself up for being impatient with my children sometimes when in reality I am overstimulated by noise. I told my teenager this the other day and it was such a great feeling!! Instead of me pushing down how I was feeling until I said something I regretted, I voiced to my daughter that I was feeling overstimulated and explained a bit about this book. Instead of her feeling like I was annoyed by her or that she was bugging me, she understood that I just needed some time not filled with constant chatter.
I feel so hopeful.
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- Catherine Payen
- 2021-04-19
Allows New Perspectives and Life!
I totally found myself here!
Cried so many times, how pathetic I have felt every time I walk into a supermarket literally brain dead!
It was the first book I read on neurodivergency and I have not stopped since...
My daughter's diagnosis followed and I am now specialised in Aspergers' Females Neuroscience Coaching
I realised as I was getting my coaching certification that other coaches could not hold space for me - no matter how much they tried. This was my line in the sand moment and I niched out because we need space
Step 1. To know
Step 2. To get diagnosed
Step 3. To learn or relearn all our quirks and put them into perspective
Step 4. To relive our life
Step 5. So as to live the future fully with total understanding of whom we are!
I discovered that a particular reaction of mine gave me this response from the neurotypicals 'Stop being so selfish!', 'You spoilt brat...' became for me 'OMG can't you see I'm having a meltdown here!' and thus I had labelled it (Step 1...) Can you imagine how my recovery, personal development and coaching grew exponentially in a fraction of a millisecond?!!
So yes this book put me on the path to discover all this and I love it totally...
Thank you for your amazing work Jenara Nerenberg
Catherine Guimard-Payen
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- Granolamom
- 2020-11-09
Very Insightful
I learned so much from this book. It helped me to see that those of us struggling with neurodivergence are far from alone. So many great terms to use that are not negative. Thank you so much for this insightful, educational literature.
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- Gretchken
- 2020-07-01
I throughly enjoyed it!
I learned so much about myself and a lot of things finally make since. I hope there will be more books to come on this subject.
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