A Delightful Human Difference: Reframing ADHD for Good - eBook

A Delightful Human Difference: Reframing ADHD for Good

by Matthew Johnstone and Janelle Booker



A fabulous new PDF e-book, best read on tablets, laptops and desktops

Matthew Johnstone is the internationally bestselling author and illustrator of I Had a Black Dog, and has worked with the World Health Organisation on mental health advocacy.

Janelle Booker is a clinical psychologist who has been working with ADHDers for more than a decade, and has been a consistent advocate for expanding our understanding of ADHD to include the whole person - the strengths and capacities that ADHDers have as well as the everyday challenges.

Meet Kipi Comelately. She's creative, kind, and quietly convinced she's failing at life. That's until a friend suggests she might have ADHD. A Delightful Human Difference follows Kipi as she learns to understand her brain, not as a disorder to fix, but as a different kind of brain with real strengths and real challenges.

Our whole desire with this e-book is to reframe what ADHD means. To replace a label that has never done justice to the people who carry it with something far more accurate: recognition, understanding, empathy and healing.

This book doesn't seek to frame ADHD as a superpower. Instead, the intention is to contribute to the growing conceptualisation of ADHD as being a different kind of brain. One that is hard-wired with strengths as well as challenges that can be quite different to neurotypical brains.

A Delightful Human Difference is a large and deeply personal piece of work, featuring around 90 original illustrations. ADHD is a vast, fascinating, and widely misunderstood topic, and this book is our attempt to do it justice.