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I was diagnosed 20 years ago. I joined this forum and was astonished when I saw a post entitled "what kind of earplugs do you have?" I thought "wait, you all have ear plugs too?" My point is that when I was diagnosed, we didn't know all these things about ADHD (auditory sensitivities, etc). I used to flip shit and get angry immediately when I heard leaf blowers. Certain sounds would send me over the edge when I was younger. I am also finding out about a correlation between ADHD and rejection dysphoria. What book can I read to find out what else I don't know that's been discovered since 2005?

Also, I'm female, so I'm probably missing info about that too.

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[–] bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My two favorite books to recommend, and both are good audio books, are “Faster Than Normal” and “ADHD 2.0” when people ask because they are very positive I think, the latter being more science oriented and interesting to know more of the why, both are great though. FTN has a lot of good stories that describe things well, it’s often the one I tell NT people to read to understand how my brain works as well! Another good one I enjoyed was Order From Chaos, lots of good “real life” stories in that one like having a doom room of stuff haha.

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ADHD 2.0 is great. I read it recently and recommended it to my wife and she liked it a lot too. It had a lot of interesting details that I hadn't considered previously.

[–] bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah! It had a bunch of “wait not everyone does that?” moments for me haha.

It sounds like 2.0 might be what I'm looking for. Thanks!