Title: CONNECTING THE DOTS: MY MIDLIFE JOURNEY WITH ADULT AD/HD
Author: Gabriella West
Narrator: Daniela
Acitelli
Length: 1
hour 1 minute
Audible
Release Date:
01.30.2019
Publisher: Gabriella West
Publish Date: 06.15.2013
Category /Genre: Personal Memoirs
Listenability: OK or
NSFW
Received from: Gabriella West (as an Audible gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Connecting the Dots
Date completed: 07.23.2019
Description from the publisher:
Most of us have heard of ADHD
(Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), so why is it so common for women
not to be diagnosed until they are in midlife? While boys manifest their ADHD in hyperactive
behaviors, female sufferers tend to internalize their symptoms, contending with
anxiety, depression, demoralization, and self-esteem issues. Because of this, a woman's diagnosis often
comes later on, with the realization that she is just not coping with life,
work, and relationships as well as she should be. She's not meeting anyone's expectations,
certainly not her own. So much has been
discovered in the last 10 years about ADHD in girls and women, but a lot of
it's still not commonly known. Awareness
of your symptoms is the key to change, and it all begins with self-awareness.
Novelist Gabriella West is
refreshingly candid about her journey towards a diagnosis of ADHD, which
started a few years ago when she encouraged her female partner to get a
diagnosis. She uncovers a family history
of the disorder, looking back at her own mother's life as a divorced American
in Ireland in the 1970s. In Connecting
the Dots, she highlights common symptoms that women with inattentive-type
ADHD experience, and shows that although getting a diagnosis is not necessarily
easy, the relief of finding an explanation for things that previously just
seemed "wrong" is enormous and healing.
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I don’t often read non-fiction, but
this one caught my interest, starting with the cover. Let’s face it – the combat boots tied like
pink ballet slippers have a weird discordance that captures the imagination.
As a woman who is often pulled in so
many directions, I wonder if I may have ADHD or am I just busy. This book won’t give you any answers. However, it may lead you to seek answers.
If you have been diagnosed, what you
will find is a sister… a friend… someone to tell you that what you are feeling
is normal, you are okay… and she is right.
Narration: Daniela Acitelli is
a good narrator with a friendly voice. I
had to remind myself that it wasn’t the author herself speaking to me.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted audiobook
copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Also from Gabriella West:
·
10 Frightening New Facts About Sugar
·
The Captain and Claire
·
Connecting the Dots: My Midlife
Journey with Adult AD/HD
·
The Doge’s Daughter
·
Dorothy Richardson: A Close Reading
·
Is ADHD Caused by Diet?: The Food
Dye Problem
·
It’s Not You, It’s Me
·
The Leaving
·
That Lonely Sinking Feeling
·
Night Train to Florence
·
Take That, You Scaredy-Cat!
·
Tangled in Blood (Time Dance #2)
·
Time of Grace
·
Toward the Double Rainbow
·
The Truth about Jack and Ray
Elsie Street series:
1.
Elsie Street
2.
The Pull of Yesterday
Knight’s Tale series:
1.
Kenilworth
2.
Montagis
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