Black Taylor's ADHD And Me

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ADHD & ME is very informative book that offers a young person point of view of how it feels to live and grow up with ADHD condition. In this memoir of life with ADHD, Black Taylor discusses how he gets along on a daily basis and offers his readers a guide who are in the same situation. This book, ADHD & ME, is very easy to read and understandable as it is organized in straightforward, simple manner. Taylor first describes each incident, then its cause and effects and at the end of each section, he gives a solution to the problems that he had faced. The organization and simple, straightforward language make it easy for all types of readers, such as teens, parents, teachers, man and women, to understand the book and get benefit from reading it. Reading ADHD & ME was very touching. Reading this book was fun as it made me laugh, but at the same time it evoked a lot of mixed emotional feeling such as it made me sad, angry, sympathetic, and powerless. It made me laugh because the narrative describes some of the incident and his curious personality in a very innocent way. For example, when he goes to the museum and touches the T. rex and the alarm go off, after that two security guards follow him, his mother, and grandfathers, he says “I don’t understand why they have …show more content…
Till today, I only heard and read about ADHD, never met or confront anyone who has this condition, but by reading this book I actually feel like I have experienced and have actual interactions with ADHD child. By reading this book I learned that ADHD children could be disorganized. Taylor was a disorganized student. He lost many things, notes and books and had a hard time doing his assignment on time. To come over this problem all Taylor needed is a little help. In middle school, his teacher helped him how to organize his notes, books, and how to divide and plan his time to finish his assignments on

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