Before I was first diagnosed with ADHD I had written thousands of want to be novels and other stuff, but not any of them were complete. Since diagnosis I wrote my book “One Boy’s Struggle: A Memoir”, started my blog ADDer World and I have recently created an online community for those with ADHD or are […]

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From time to time someone writes me and asks why many adults with ADHD find the diagnosis liberating.
The first thing to understand about diagnosis is that it helps explain our often confounding and misunderstood behaviors. We tend to do things which we know are not helpful and can be disruptive. Once we understand the why’s […]

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I was born on May 21st 1969, today 39 years ago. Oh my, that is so hard to believe, 39 years. How time flies. Normally I dread my birthday, because it usually means that another year has passed and I have not accomplished anything that I wanted to accomplish. Not so this year, this year […]

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Have you ever heard of the Shame Game? It is an easy game, I used to play it a lot and I won a lot. Actually the Shame Game is a very difficult game to lose and is a very easy game to win.
The Shame Game only requires a few things and if you can master […]

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Hi everyone, a couple days ago I finally opened a new site for ADDer World. It’s a place you can join and meet new people who have ADHD or a relation to ADHD in some way. On ADDer World, the social network, you will be able to create your own blogs, forums and post pictures, […]

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Today’s world is obsessed with perfection. We have editors for everything and that way anything created can be perfected to the point one almost believes a machine was the original creator. Dot your I’s and cross your T’s.
The world wants things perfect, so much so that flaws and raw reality have become unacceptable and room for error […]

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“You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.”
Paul Newman spoken as Fast Eddie

One of the most appealing things about the movie “The Color of Money” is that the story is familiar to a great […]

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One of the biggest problems facing many adults with ADHD is credibility. Credibility is probably the single most important factor in becoming successful, no matter what the occupation or area. Talent, knowledge and ability are very important, but you can be overflowing with all of that and still not have a good reputation. Credibility is a […]

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Young adults with ADHD are described in many ways and here are some of the most common: Naïve, stubborn, immature, wet behind the ears, green, lazy, and flakey, stupid or dumb and there are some other condescending terms which are supposed to be positive, but because of the already mentioned terms, these following are not […]

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