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This book was written by doctors with ADHD for readers with ADHD:
>CHAPTER 1
>THE SKINNY ON ADD: READ THIS IF YOU CAN’T READ THE WHOLE BOOK
>Most people who have ADD don’t read books all the way through. It’s not because they don’t want to; it’s because reading entire books is very difficult—sort of like singing an entire song in just one breath.
>We want to make this book accessible to people who don’t read books all the way through. For those people, our most dear and treasured brothers and sisters in ADD, we offer this first chapter, set off from the rest of the book. Reading this will give you a good idea of what ADD is all about. If you want to learn more, ask someone who loves you to read the whole book and tell you about it. Or you can listen to it on a tape or CD.
>We offer this chapter in the ADD-friendly format of Q&A. You can get the skinny on ADD in these thirty questions and answers. For more detail and research-based answers, you can refer to the chapters of particular interest.
I have ADHD and I love to read, but sometimes I struggle to make it through a paragraph and other times I can read a whole book in one sitting. The ADHD brain is prone to attention variability--that is to say, not only are you likely to struggle with a lack of focus, but at times you probably fall into states of hyperfocus. Well-managed ADHD allows for less of the former and more control over the latter.
