An easy-to-read guide to ADHD in the modern world
"I literally downloaded this to my phone so that I could have it for reference" - Amy Ermie
ADHD: A Modern Lexicon
A contemporary, linguistic description of ADHD
Released in November 2024, ADHD: A Modern Lexicon, provides a fresh look at ADHD though the lens of language. After being diagnosed several years ago, I researched the topic both deliberately and through observation. I noticed that there was a lot of curious terminology associated with ADHD, whether it be neurospicy or zigzagging. I realised these terms provided a great way to structure a book on ADHD i.e. chapters.
The book was written with the ADHD brain in mind. Hence, chapters are short and easy to read. While there are technical terms, a deeper dive is left to the reader (with references provided). To bulk out the book a little, and because I fancied it, I decided to do some drawings. Now, this is something I've not done since school. And also having learnt that I have an inability to hold images in my head, was pretty daunting. However, I found a way through and I quite like the results.
The paperback is printed via Ingram Spark and distributed wide. The ebook is distributed via Draft2Digital everywhere except Amazon. The latter is a link to my author page. The illustrated ebook is the first time I feel I've managed to crack the conversion of a pdf into a epub. I've spent a lot of money and effort trying all sorts of conversion methods. I was also quoted £400 for a professional transfer. But I spotted a small comment on a website, about how good Ulysses was at converting its own format to others. And it turns out that markdown's simplicity was my secrete weapon. I imported my text into Ulysses, fixed the chapter headings, then added the images (batch processing from Tiff to Jpeg).