ADHD and Me

The book ADHD and Me is a memoir by Blake E.S. Taylor. It is about what it's like to grow up with ADHD, and the experiences he went through at school and home. The main character is Blake, a boy who lives in Weston, Connecticut, with ADHD who struggles growing up with it. The most important part of the book is when Blake realizes ADHD is not an all negative thing. It has huge advantages, and some disadvantages like many other things.

I can connect to this book on many levels because I also am growing up with ADHD as Blake did, and I agree with him that it's hard, too. Also I have heard that as Blake said, people with ADHD struggle with getting distracted easily because I have heard the same from doctors and psychologists that I know of. I also connect with Blake because in his book nobody except his family and some of his teachers understood his ADHD and I feel the same way too. A quote I also really connected with was: "A person with ADHD does not think about cause and effect, does not connect the dots between thought, action, and consequence. You shoot pebbles because you want to see them fly, and you don't think about the objects in their path."

I would highly recommend this book to anyone with ADHD and people who don't understand what ADHD is and how it affects you. I say this because the book explains all these things, and delves into how these explanations make perfect sense.