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Attention Seeker: The Truth about ADHD
What does it mean to live in a world that punishes distraction, but profits from our attention?
Why do so many ADHD individuals not feel at home at school or in the workplace? What does it really feel like to grow up, learn, work and exist in a world that wasn't built for your brain?
Why are so many of us struggling with shame, burnout and - statistically speaking - a suspicious number of parking tickets?
Attention Seeker is a groundbreaking, unfiltered exploration of ADHD - how it shapes lives across race, gender, and class, and why so many people are left undiagnosed and misunderstood.
Drawing on research, lived experience and the realities of navigating ADHD in the UK today, Medland cuts through the myths and misinformation to uncover the truth. From education to employment, addiction to the criminal justice system, Attention Seeker reveals how ADHD intersects with power, privilege and oppression - and what needs to change.
Ending with a bold anti-capitalist manifesto, Medland challenges everything we think we know about ADHD. The book in a society obsessed with productivity and perfection, what can everyone learn from those who think differently?
Attention Seeker is the first book of its kind. Equal parts eye-opening, urgent and authoritative, this is a call to rethink ADHD, not just as an individual diagnosis, but as a political issue.
Why do so many ADHD individuals not feel at home at school or in the workplace? What does it really feel like to grow up, learn, work and exist in a world that wasn't built for your brain?
Why are so many of us struggling with shame, burnout and - statistically speaking - a suspicious number of parking tickets?
Attention Seeker is a groundbreaking, unfiltered exploration of ADHD - how it shapes lives across race, gender, and class, and why so many people are left undiagnosed and misunderstood.
Drawing on research, lived experience and the realities of navigating ADHD in the UK today, Medland cuts through the myths and misinformation to uncover the truth. From education to employment, addiction to the criminal justice system, Attention Seeker reveals how ADHD intersects with power, privilege and oppression - and what needs to change.
Ending with a bold anti-capitalist manifesto, Medland challenges everything we think we know about ADHD. The book in a society obsessed with productivity and perfection, what can everyone learn from those who think differently?
Attention Seeker is the first book of its kind. Equal parts eye-opening, urgent and authoritative, this is a call to rethink ADHD, not just as an individual diagnosis, but as a political issue.
464 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 26, 2025
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July 11, 2025
A fantastically personal yet exquisitely researched work on ADHD. I’ve never read a book on the topic that has so deeply resonated with my personal experience. Accessible to all readers, this should be compulsory for all people living with or supporting/interacting with people with ADHD (which is probably everyone). The thoughtful nature of how it’s been put together belies a deep understand of not just the experience of neurodiversity but also how to reach us. I wish I’d had this book when I was first diagnosed.
July 17, 2025
I just started this book and by the Glossary I'm already in my feelings about how VALIDATING this book is. It feels custom-made for me as an ADHD reader. I ordered the book from the UK to the US because I'm such a fan of Rubyetc, and I stayed because Amber Medland GETS IT. Thank you for this book!!!
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