ADHD and Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
Author: Blake E.S. Taylor and Lara Honos-Webb
From an attempt to hurl his infant sister off the edge of a table to being lashed down to a dining room chair by an irate babysitter, the stories from Blake Taylor's life with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at times hilarious, tragic, and instructive. This eminently readable memoir sheds light on what it's like for a young person to grow up with, suffer from, and ultimately learn to live with this common condition.
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From an attempt to hurl his infant sister off the edge of a table to being lashed down to a dining room chair by an irate babysitter, the stories from Blake Taylor's life with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at times hilarious, tragic, and instructive. This eminently readable memoir sheds light on what it's like for a young person to grow up with, suffer from, and ultimately learn to live with this common condition.
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to live with both the good and bad sides of life with ADHD.
Critic Reviews
“Taylor speaks to fellow teens and their families with an authority few experts can muster. --Publishers Weekly, 17 November 2007”
Taylor offers readers an inside look at how he gets along on a daily basis as well as a guide for people in the same situation ... Students struggling with ADHD and their parents will benefit from the author's insights. --Library Journal, 15 November 2007 Blake Taylor's book, ADHD and Me, is stereotype-busting from the outset. How can a whirlwind of a boy, now young man, like Blake, write such a lucid, disclosing, revealing, and, above all, insightful book? The book blends extremely personal descriptions of situations, binds, conflicts, and realities, some humorous and some deadly serious, with extremely useful practical information on how to cope with and overcome the often-devastating symptoms and impairments related to ADHD. Most of all, the book serves to humanize a label and a condition that are too frequently viewed with skepticism and even derision. This is a must-read for people of all ages who are concerned with ADHD, mental illness, treatment, coping, and stigma. --Stephen P. Hinshaw, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley Taylor speaks to fellow teens and their families with an authority few experts can muster. --Publishers Weekly, 17 November 2007
About the Author
Blake E. S. Taylor, a first-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is the youngest person to write about living with ADHD. At seventeen years of age, he wrote his memoir " ADHD and Me ." Taylor is a a national advocate for young people with the condition.
Taylor 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 NewsRadio with Rebecca Corral. He has been featured by the Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle, and in a cover story in ADDitude magaz
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