Gina Pera's Blog, page 29

The Checklist Manifesto

My friend Katy, at 18Channels.com, swears by checklists to keep the ADHD chaos at bay.  Physician, surgeon, and writer Atul Gawande likes checklists so much, he wrote a popular book about it. In The Checklist Manifesto, Gawande dissects a problem that plagues every quarter of the modern world. That is, how can we can streamline the increasing complexity […]

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ADHD, Eyeglasses, and Stigma: Part 4

  Part 3 here. Be Careful With Those ADHD Eyeglasses Maybe this has happened to you. As soon as you started learning about ADHD, you suddenly saw it all around you. You have officially donned your ADHD Eyeglasses. Among many people you know, you started seeing oh-so-familiar behaviors in a new light—through the lens of […]

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Chapter 8: Explaining The Inexplicable

By Taylor J. Chapter 8: Explaining the Inexplicable Now that we have a better grasp on what ADHD is—and the mystifying twists and turns it can bring to life and relationships—we turn to the other partner who needs support: the partner of the adult with ADHD. (Notice that Gina never uses the term “The non-ADHD Partner.” That is because […]

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ADHD, Eyeglasses, and Stigma: Part 3

Part 2 here.  Vision: A Function of The Brain As Well As The Eye Consider this fact: Vision is only partly a function of the eye. Yes, the eye receives sensory input in the form of light hitting the retina.  But those light patterns are then converted into electrical signals, which travel along brain pathways […]

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The Couple That Reads Together

Over the years, my first book’s readers have told me, “You know, Gina, the only thing that really made a difference for us was sitting down and reading your book, out loud and together.” I liked the idea of my husband and I reading a book aloud, together. But the last book I’d want to […]

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ADHD, Eyeglasses, and Stigma: Part 2

Part 1 is here. Through A Glass, Clearly We absolutely must begin with this remarkable video: a beautifully healthy-looking baby gets a peek through eyeglasses, for the very first time:   Now for a bit of history. Crude attempts at vision correction date back to ancient Rome. What we would recognize as eyeglasses, however, debuted in the […]

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Chapter 7: More Mystifying Twists and Turns

  By Taylor J. If the core challenge of ADHD is self-regulation, then we must understand: There are a lot of things that anyone’s “self” has to regulate. They don’t all show up on symptom lists, either. Chapter 7 hit me right between the eyes, because it called out my favorite form of poor self-regulation: […]

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Eyeglasses, ADHD, and Stigma: Part 1

A man went to an optometrist to get his eyes tested and asked, “Hey, will I be able to read after wearing glasses?” “Yes, of course,” said the doctor, “why not!” “Oh! How nice it would be,” said the patient, “I have been illiterate for so long.”   I first heard this old optometry saw […]

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Eyeglasses, ADHD, and Stigma: Part I

A man went to an optometrist to get his eyes tested and asked, “Hey, will I be able to read after wearing glasses?” “Yes, of course,” said the doctor, “why not!” “Oh! How nice it would be,” said the patient, “I have been illiterate for so long.”   I first heard this old optometry saw […]

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Myth #5: ADHD Exists To Make Big Pharma Rich

“ADHD Exists To Make Big Pharma Rich” Conspiracy theorists take note: The discovery that neurostimulant medications can mitigate ADHD symptoms happened accidentally. In 1937. And, it took 50 years for the discovery to make its way widely into clinical practice. (Chapter 20 of my book, Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? explains that chance […]

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