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Video #23 – Enriching Social Networks for People with ADHD

People diagnosed with ADHD often are ”different drummers” with higher levels of energy than neurotypical people. As a result, they may hunger for relationships in their lives where they can be with people who have the same cravings for stimulation, excitement, novelty, and/or movement. In this video (#23 in The Power of Neurodiversity series), I […]

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11 Ways Trump’s Policies Savage People with Disabilities

In November, 2015, President Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in South Carolina when he began to criticize a New York Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition affecting his joints. Trump’s beef was that the man had disclaimed having written that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 911 attacks shortly […]

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Video #22 UDL/Assistive Technologies for People with ADHD

In this video I review seven apps which can be useful for people with ADHD. They include: a time management app, an online distraction-clearing app, a video-game formatted concentration app approved by the FDA for ADHD, a task management tool, a sleep-management app, a neurofeedback application with a headband, and a note-taking app. I also […]

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Video #21 Environmental Modifications for the ADHD Brain

In this video I describe six different additions that a person with ADHD can make to their environment at home, work, or in the classroom, to alleviate symptoms and maximize productivity. These include: being out in nature, using wiggle furniture, having fidget gear on hand, creating stimulating settings, and using insights from chronopsychology to find […]

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Neurodiversity Video #20 – Positive Role Models with ADHD

One of my concerns with the ADHD label is that it only focuses on the negatives, while in fact there are many positives to having ADHD. One way to counteract the negatives is to learn about people with ADHD who have done great things with their lives. In this video I feature 12 positive role […]

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Video #19 – The Evolutionary Advantages of ADHD

This video seeks to answer the question, if the symptoms of ADHD are signs of a medical disorder, why are they still in the gene pool after hundreds of thousands of years? Why weren’t they selected out (e.g. if the ADHD genes made it difficult for prehistoric humans to adapt to their environment, they would […]

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Video #19 The Evolutionary Advantages of ADHD

This video seeks to answer the question, if the symptoms of ADHD are signs of a medical disorder, why are they still in the gene pool after hundreds of thousands of years? Why weren’t they selected out (e.g. if the ADHD genes made it difficult for prehistoric humans to adapt to their environment, they would […]

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Video #18 Good Career Matches for People with ADHD

This is video #18 in my series introducing my book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video I provide some guidelines for people with ADHD on choosing careers that maximize their strengths, and minimize their difficulties. After listing the 9 to 5 […]

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Neurodiversity Video #17 Strengths of People with ADHD

In this video, I suggest that it is quite important for us to emphasize the strengths of people with ADHD, because the label itself has three negatives in it (deficit-hyperactivity-disorder). There’s an evolutionary advantage to ADHD in that their hyperactivity, for example, was important for surviving in hunting raids on the plains (and are still […]

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Neurodiversity Video #16 A History of ADHD

This is the sixteenth video in my series introducing my new book The Power of Neurodiversity.  In this video, I give a short history of ADHD, noting terms that were employed in the past (such as hyperkinesis, and minimal brain dysfunction), and then using a timeline to chart the growth of ADHD from a 1971 […]

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