A Kid Just Like Me A Father and Son Overcome the Challenges of ADD and Learning Disabilities

This was a very interesting book about the challenges a father faced while advocating for his son. I actually learned a lot about myself by reading this book. I don't have a learning disability but I do have ADD and there were some similarities. The boy in this book had a lot more advanced problems than I have. I know that one day when I have kids that get ADD I can help them just as much. The only downside to this book is I don't know how Joshua is today. I would also like to hear a book from his perspective if that is possible.

10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD

This was a very good book about the struggles of Add and how to overcome them. Personally having ADD I found this very good and would recommend it to anyone who has ADD or is in a relationship with someone who has it. Sometimes the books out there have suggestions that I have heard over and over that I already use. I like this book because it focused on adults and gave some tips that I have never thought of before. There were chapters on reducing clutter and getting organized, stop losing stuff, managing time, managing money, self-care, finding the job that fits, improving social skills, and enriching relationships. There was also a chapter on medication and understanding the disorder.

People that have ADD tend to have problems with executive functions because they lack the receptors in the brain that regulate the frontal lobes. This results in a lack of organizing skills, processing information, making decisions, planning ahead, regulating moods, storing information, learning from mistakes, starting tasks, forgetting things, interrupting others, getting motivated, and having a proper place for things. Some of these things I found most interesting about ADD I didn't even know was an ADD thing.

For example

• Hate waiting for traffic
• Inner feeling of restlessness
• Hyper focus is the difficulty of switching tasks because we are so into focusing on the task we are in
• Frequent burn out because of tackling too much at once
• Overload of stimuli
• Losing your car when parked
• Constant interruption difficulty getting back on track
• Over estimate time needed to get somewhere
• Tend to get stuck in tv and computers
• Wired to be a night owl
• Tend to get so caught up in compensating for diffusivities focusing and following through we get Stuck in the cycle of perfectionism
• Very visual
• Difficulty sticking to a budget due to impulse buying
• Very creative and inspired
• Live a fast pace life and forget to slow down
• Lower levels of dopamine
• Variety important
• Like instant gratification
• Eat too quickly
• More likely to have a sleep disorder
• Don't wake up refreshed
• Difficulty falling asleep because of lack of melatonin
• More prone to grinding teeth at night
• Sensitive teeth
• Difficulty listening to the body
• Short fuse
• Need to escape
• Have a higher rate of being fired
• Jobs need to have a fast pace, have variety, can move around, support, intellectually stimulating, Multitask ability, firm due dates, frequent feedback, clear expectations, flexible schedule, social, and Have immediate rewards
• Take rejection personally
• The difficulty with the perception of how close something is to you
• Talk to loud
• Ramble
• Difficulty pacing myself
• Need to know the point
• Don't know when to end a conversation
• Difficulty recognizing people
• Bluntly honest
• Get bored easy
• Sensitive to people's' moods
• Give too much or take too much