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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 1 points 3 weeks ago

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 1 points 3 weeks ago

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 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

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