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Average rating: 4.23 · 17,782 ratings · 2,694 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD by Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness 4.19 avg rating — 11,831 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It? by Kim Holderness, Penn Holderness 4.32 avg rating — 5,973 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All You Can Be with ADHD by Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We have an abundance of attention! Our challenge is to control it. Once we do that, the sky is the limit in terms of what we can do in life.”
― Penn Holderness, ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

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“It all boils down to stimulation. At its core, the ADHD brain is wired to seek stimulation. We must have it in order to feel “right,” so our brains are always scanning for the bigger, better offer. While the typical understanding of ADHD suggests that people who have it are overstimulated, the ADHD brain is actually chronically understimulated. It just needs more input than a neurotypical brain to keep it humming, so what appears to be a lack of attention or impulse control is really just a desire to get to a baseline level of stimulation that keeps our brains happy.”
― Penn Holderness, ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

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“We’ve found the characteristics of what our ADHD brains crave. They are best summarized by Jessica McCabe, creator and host of the excellent YouTube series “How to ADHD,” who says ADHD brains are attracted to the following: Novelty. L.L.Bean catalog with its sensible fleece vests and parkas? No, thank you. SkyMall catalog with an eight-foot-tall gorilla statue and a cross-body bag that winks at passersby? Hell, yes. Challenges. We respond well to competition of all sorts, whether we’re racing against ourselves to make the world’s fastest fried egg or trying to get the most Ping-Pong balls in a jar. (Or participating in The Amazing Race.) Things of personal interest. If we are learning to use a chainsaw, the instructions might be deadly dull—but skipping them might just be deadly, so we will probably buckle down and learn what a two-stroke engine is because we’re interested in keeping our fingers.”
― Penn Holderness, ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

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