On May 3, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Horn, John wrote:
A very interesting article. Even more interesting, for me, was the
site itself. My daughter was just diagnosed with Asperger's
Syndrome and ADHD (inattentive type). I know there are (or were)
some on this list with AS or ADHD. Any recommended sites out there
for a Mom and Dad struggling to put some order into all this chaos?
I found the ideas of Thom Hartmann very helpful:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/home-add.shtml
Hartmann is the creator of the "Hunter/Farmer" metaphor that
describes those of us with various shades of ADHD as exhibiting the
characteristics of "hunters" ("global" [as opposed to narrow]
attention, preference for immediate rewards and short-term highly
intense efforts, periods of hyperfocus, and so forth), while the
majority of society exhibits the characteristics of "farmers". He
describes it better than I...
Hartmann is also apparently a liberal radio commentator.
When I was really suffering from the effects of my ADHD (which may
have been exacerbated by my brain tumor), I enjoyed the following
site, which I found while researching the relationship between ADHD
and Myers-Briggs types.
NOTICE: This site apparently came under attack from some sort of
spyware, so they installed a javascript that almost immediately
redirects you to takebacktheweb.com. It's damned annoying, but on my
Mac, I can prevent the redirect by immediately and repeatedly
pressing the escape key once the page has loaded:
http://borntoexplore.org/
Sincerely,
Dave "Oh look! An Owl!" Land
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