Adult ADD Strengths

How 4 people turned learning. disabilities into stories of success, fortune and happiness

Kathy Bergen at the Chicago Tribune tells the story of people with learning disabilities who were very succesful in their careers.

Bill Jacobs owns eight car dealerships that did $400 million in sales last year. Chicago economist Diane Swonk appeared on TV 105 times last year.

She talks about having LD may be an competitive, something that I’ve maintained is true if you learn to focus on your unique strengths and manage or delegate out your weaknesses.

Update: CADDRA has suddenly changed the website address of the ADHD Practice Guidelines. The new one is at
http://www.caddra.ca/english/phys_guide.html

Here’s a complete answer to the above complaint I hear and read far, far too often all over North America.

The CADDRA (Canadian ADD Resource Alliance) Canadian ADHD Practice Guidelines 2006.

The site has 22 documents with 103 pages of great information. Even if you’re not Canadian, they are definitely worth a look. Tell them to download and read these guidelines and as Vancouver Psychiatrist and BC ADHD Clinic director Dr. Margaret Weiss said when she talked about the shameful 1 year wait to get diagnosed for ADHD at the BC ADHD clinic due to govt neglect and underfunding, “it’s all you need to know to diagnose and treat ADHD.”

Here’s an article on a study that replicated an ADHD study conducted in Norway, with children from the Limpopo province in the Republic of South Africa. Moment-to-moment dynamics of ADHD behaviour in South African children. Overall, the results replicated the findings from Norway.

CONCLUSIONS: The present study makes a strong case for ADHD as a basic, neurobehavioural disorder, not a cultural phenomenon, by replicating findings from a wealthy Western country in a poor province of a developing country. The results were, generally, in line with predictions from the dynamic developmental theory of ADHD by indicating that reinforcers were less efficient in the ADHD group than in the non-ADHD group. Finally, the results substantiated ADHD-related variability as an etiologically important characteristic of ADHD behaviour.

Would a Quaker follow what Pat Robertson says to do? They’re both Christians (well theoretically on the last one, I don’t recall jesus talking about the benefits of assassination)

So when a group of Shia Imams held a press conference last week in Montreal, Quebec where

After the arrests of the alleged Islamic supremacist terrorists in southern Ontario recently, a few people decided to do something positive as a response to it. They took a page from the very successful blog We’re Not Afraid by Alfie Dennen and friends. At one point it was getting 4 million visitors A DAY, and has received more than 10,000 photos from people around the world showing pictures of themselves, family, friends and pets with the message We’re Not Afraid.

I’ve blogged about it before here, here, here, here, here, and here. Can you tell I thought it was a good idea:)