This book estimates the private and social costs of ADHD. It studies the costs related to individuals with ADHD who have not been diagnosed and who have not received treatment. in this respect, it makes a unique contribution to scientific knowledge by investigating the cost of u…
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In Accidental Intolerance, Susan Hawthorne argues that in the past few decades, our medical, scientific, and social approaches to ADHD have jointly -- but unintentionally-reinforced intolerance of ADHD -- diagnosed people. We have packed social values, such as interests in effic…
" ... Shows how medicine, science, and society jointly--though not intentionally--stigmatize ADHD-diagnosed people, while offering them few options. It also explores ways we can change our concepts and practices to improve factual understanding of ADHD, open alternatives to affe…