ADHD and Me, Blake E.S. Taylor
ADHD and Me, Blake E.S. Taylor
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ADHD and Me
What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table

Author: Blake E.S. Taylor, Lara Honos-Webb, PHD

Narrator: Brian Holden

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/09/2021

Synopsis

Blake Taylor's mother first suspected he had ADHD when he, at only three years of age, tried to push his infant sister in her carrier off the kitchen table. As time went by, Blake developed a reputation for being hyperactive and impulsive. He launched rockets (accidentally) into neighbor's swimming pools and set off alarms in museums. Blake was diagnosed formally with ADHD when he was five years old. In ADHD and Me, he tells about the next twelve years as he learns to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD.

Blake's memoir offers, for the first time, a young person's account of what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition. Join Blake as he foils bullies, confronts unfair teachers, struggles with distraction and disorganization on exams, and goes sailing out-of-bounds and ends up with a boatload of spiders. It will be an inspiration and companion to the thousands of others like him who must find a way to thrive with a different perspective than many of us.

The book features an introduction by psychologist Lara Honos-Webb, author of The Gift of ADHD, and a leading advocate for kids with ADHD.

About Blake E.S. Taylor

Blake E. S. Taylor is the author of ADHD and Me and a national advocate for young people with the condition. He has appeared on CNN.com's Young People Who Rock, National Public Radio, and San Francisco's ABC7 News, FOX Mornings at 2, CBS 5 Bay Area People, KCBS News Radio with Rebecca Corral. He has been featured by the Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, and in a cover story in ADDitude magazine. His book has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Dutch, and Polish.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 12, 2009

I really enjoyed this book. Like I've said before after reading "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key," I've pretty much always thought I had ADHD though I've never been formally diagnosed. This book was really good in that in came from the viewpoint of an actual teenager who wrote the book in his last two......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on November 29, 2017

My son read this book as a part of a summer project to engage with his adhd. It is a quick read and I think it would be most effective for a middle school student. Good and basic perspective from someone who has worked through adhd themselves. There was a focused concern for fitting in which I disag......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on February 12, 2015

This book revolutionized the way I work with students who have ADHD. All individuals with ADHD, their parents, educators, and doctors should read this book. While there were a few parts that seemed to drag on, it's important to remember that Taylor wrote the book before he was even twenty, so all th......more

Goodreads review by Elwyn on June 17, 2017

This would have worked much better as a memoir than as a book dedicated to helping others with ADHD... Taylor is one of a lucky few who was able to afford a diagnosis, medications, and has a supportive family. This book seemed aimed at other youths and teens who are in the same position as him: priv......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on February 22, 2018

Thanks Blake for sharing your story. I found the lessons you shared and your insight into a world I can only see as a parent of kids with ADHD was so very helpful. Will try and get my boy to read it for his one piece of mind. It's always nice to know you're not alone.......more

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