Useful understanding of ADHD

Lots of medical terminology which might confuse some people without a medical background but was the right level for those with science background

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A superb effort resulting from enormous integrity

Narration:
Production of the narration of this book is simply gold standard for listeners with ADHD. I say this with absolute seriousness and experience of helping ADHD sufferers, among other things, to develop their ability specificly to read and listen to books. Prosody is used with very careful meaningfulness and judegment. Every paragraph is systematically broken into easily digested chunks, each chunk separated by gentle pauses. Each prosodic chunk is spoken with attractive and stimulating emotion, always appropriate to the meaning. You just don't get better narration. Those current negative Audible customer reviews which seem to target narration style in this audiobook are conspicuous in describing characteristics in terms that seem the perfect inverse of actual reality.

Editorial work in drawing the various papers together:
This is a compilation of papers by different contributors. That's not some kind of weakness! That is a perfectly normal, valued and serious minded thing to do. What is absolutely remarkable is that despite these different chapters being by different contributors, with different methods and objectives, clearly enormous effort and great success has been brought to a highly collaborative editorial process resulting in a collection of papers that actually maintains some appreciative degree of coherence of style and mood. Even the most technical papers are written with a friendliness and accessibility that completely belies the properly strict scientific discipline with which those same chapters are also created. This book was put together with a very obviously deep sense of responsibility and compassion. For example, despite the fact that this genre of book (a collection of academical articles or chapters) not giving rise to any expectation that there would be much in the way of narrative style narrations of lived experience, that is nevertheless what readers can look forward to in many places: far too many places for that to be by chance. As I say, the work is remarkably collaborative in terms of aims and outcome. Once again, oddly hot, negative reviews by several Audible customers, at time of writing, seem to identify and describe features of this book in terms that seem perfectly inverse to reality.

Difficulties faced by all pioneering research:
True progress with regard to understanding ADHD in the girls and women is only in recent years starting to accellerate. Contributors to this book have stayed true to what can truly be said at this time. The book clearly tries to include questions and information that are as broad and varied as realistically possible. The book seems to represent very faithfully the fact that there are questions and areas that we just do not know a lot about.

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Not an ADHD friendly read at all

It has some interesting information and it’s nice that it’s directed to women however it’s such a boring listen compared to some other books in this topic. Partly because narration is super slow needs to be listened to at 1.1 to make it bearable. It’s like Siri is reading you a book. It’s full of statistics thrown at you and very repetitive at places. Due to the chapters being written by different people the book isn’t too coherent and it’s not well written at all. I understand that it was written By doctors and ADHD specialist but it still could have been written down in a way that it doesn’t feel like I’m reading a book of random statistics and notes of a study. I listened to this right after listening to Scattered Minds and it was so underwhelming afterwards. I was really looking forward to this one as it’s so current while the other one is a bit dated still I feel like it gave me so much more than this book.

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Sleepy narration

Any women with ADHD who wish to learn about the subject will struggle to do so by listening to this book! The narrator is a terrible fit - the ADHD brain is geared towards interest, and although the subject matter is interesting, the narrator's voice is monotonous and dreary. I found listening incredibly dull!

I've read great reviews of this book, and intend to purchase a hard copy instead.

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Hard going

There’s some helpful stuff in here. But it’s such a difficult listen. Given the subject matter you’d expect it to be ADHD-friendly. But it lacks flow and is terribly dull.

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So Disappointing

I was really keen to understand more. Considered buying the book but thought listening would be better. I liked the research references but found there were just so many.
I was keen to understand more about ADHD but 80% of the book referenced children - so just not relevant. It should be signposted better.
The tone, delivery and narration was so dull. No animation in the delivery, mono tine and so dull. There was literally nothing to keep the listener enthralled.
I persevered as I can ever hopeful it would improve - but it did not.

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Not helpful

If you want a book of statistics then this hits the nail on the head. I was hoping for how women present differently to boys and what the symptoms maybe but i got to chapter 2 and could listen no longer. It’s just spewing irrelevant numbers and stuff you can read on the internet of how to get an assessment. There’s nothing that actually goes in to detail about how you identify the signs on ADHD. So mad i wasted a credit.

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Repetitive and boring

Repeats the same simple information so many times it left me wondering if authors think women with ADHD are stupid. It elaborates on scoring systems and validation to a degree that even clinicians will find stupefying. This book is neither appropriately targeted at professionals nor the general public. This is the worst popular science book I've ever encountered. I never leave bad reviews but don't waste your time. The narrator tries her best but simply cannot bring the awkward text to life. Simply adding the phrase chatty to an academic paper and repeating itself again and again does not a book make.

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Terribly boring

Not helpful, so dull and repetitive that I couldn’t listen, couldn’t concentrate on it and I’m not even sure I have ADHD.

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