Good morning fellow ADHDers,

I just read How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe (she has a fantastic YouTube channel as well and I wish I knew this stuff 20+ years ago. So I thought I’d give away copies to my favorite ADHD sub. I’m giving away ten copies in a contest. I’ve never done something like this before so I’ll probably mess it up or go ride bikes and forget, but it’ll be up for a week (hopefully pinned), and the replies with the most points get the book.

I’m happy to mail a physical copy, or an ebook or an audio book, your choice. I’m US based so a physical copy may be sketchy outside of the US but lets go for it.

How to get points: Reply and include some or more of the below.

Most upvotes: +1
Second most upvotes: +1
Newest reply when contest closes: +1
Most engagement/replies to a comment: +1
Quirky fake quote from the book: +1
Fake chapter title and summary from the book: +1
Meme of the book: +1
Fake book cover of the book: +1
ADHD character cosplay/art: +1 (dress up as your favorite ADHD person or post art of them, AI art counts!)
Wildcard challenge +1 (create your own challenge and get others to participate)
Unsung hero award +3 (share someone who has been an unsung hero for you and your ADHD challenges)

Have fun, and hope this doesn’t become a disaster…! I mean I was supposed to post this on Wednesday, but you know, ADHD…

EDIT: Multiple replies are cool, I’ll use a vlookup or something to merge them together!

  • silvanaEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    I’ve added a todo to my task manager to come up with something witty to write here an hour from now.

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    18·
    9 months ago

    My unsung hero is my son, he’s also ADHD and seeing how hard he works and how positive he is is great. He took 3 years off from high school to college to focus on getting ahead of his ADHDness and is now back in college and doing well. I wish I was as cool as him!

    • pixel_witch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Aw this is sweet. I hope he knows how you feel. And it’s so great to hear people doing things in the way that works best for them rather than how society seems it should be.

  • apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.socialEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Heads up for anyone using Spotify Premium: the audiobook is included in your subscription. I’m tight for cash and basically only consume books in audio form, so if you already subscribe to the service, you might as well take advantage of it.

    • pixel_witch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Aw man. I had no idea. Thanks man. I am going to not attempt to win one then and save it for someone else who could benefit.

    • Christopher@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      And if you don’t have Premium (or just love audiobooks I’m general, wishlist the item on chirpbooks.com and when it goes on a 30-day sale you’ll get notified, where you can then buy it for like 90% off. I love this service and it has changed the way I consume audiobooks. Like audible without the membership.

      it’s currently US$18.99 down from $20 if you have no Spotify and are unable to wait it out.

  • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    Whoever wins one of these is going to forget they won it, be surprised when it shows up, and place it somewhere they’ll “definitely remember”, lose it, forget again, and then find and read the entire thing in one sitting right in the middle of attempting to clean.

  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    i don’t have time to read the rules or use punctuation correctly, which drives my daughter crazy. So I hope everyone has a good time!

  • Bennu@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    I love Jessica, I have supported her with one dollar a month for many years in her Patreon. It’s not much but it’s what I can give and she does such a great work, so I would love to be able to read her book. Here goes nothing!

    Quirky fake quote from the book:

    “When you have ADHD it’s like having a super powerful brain but it’s always out of control, so it’s not really yours if you think about it… It has a will of its own”.

    Fake chapter title and summary from the book:

    Chapter 34: how to stop playing videogames like it’s some kind of addiction.

    This chapter goes into detail as to why ADHD brains have a tendency to engage into gaming and how some of us play day and night never to be seen by our family and friends. It then goes on to give us tools to fight back this tendency as we need to sometimes go outside and have human interaction, shower and more.

    The most compelling part is when it says that at the end of the day if you love gaming so much, then you must have a job to be able to buy games. Then it goes ahead and admits that that last thing was a joke but you do need a job to buy food and have a family.

    Unsung hero award:

    My unsung hero is most definitely a heroine, my wife. We met when we were 18, now we are 30 and living a humble but beautiful life. She started saving my life from the very beginning not only making me immensely happy but also helping me face my fears and struggles. I couldn’t have graduated from High School without her helping me study mathematics, I had always been terrible at them. She has ever since continued to support me at every step of the way in both school and job and even house chores. At age 23 we discovered I had ADHD and she quickly started reading all she could to help me in my day to day as well as finding the right treatment. She became an expert, she’s the one who actually found Jessica’s YouTube channel. At age 28 we discovered she also has ADHD and confirmed she has bipolar disorder, something we had been suspecting for years… so this whole time she had been fighting not only to help me but also against her own ADHD and bipolar, without even knowing the ADHD part. She is the best person I have ever known, she has both helped me become the man I am today and has helped me feel as safe as a child and I would give my life for her without a second thought.

    Fake book cover of the book:

    For this I wanted to recreate how my notebooks always look because I can never take proper notes. I always fidget around drawing or writing random stuff… I always thought I was undisciplined but It was my ADHD.

    Meme of the book:

    Done! Sorry, I’m using these as a checklist but I don’t have anything about the meme except it made me laugh when I made it and I sure hope it makes you laugh as well.

    ADHD character cosplay/art:

    I’m no artist and certainly not a cosplayer so I went ahead and did my best to find some AI to do it for me but they are all so stupid (or maybe I’m the one too dumb to write the right promt). I gave my best trying to draw something with Paint but it’s simply too horrible, haha, so I went back to AI and failed again. Sorry, I’ll post the drawing later if I manage to create something.

    Wildcard challenge: name weird places where you may store the book from the contest if you win and you are distracted enough. Bonus points if it has happened before and even more if you have a picture.

    I once put a book I was reading in the refrigerator. I noticed immediately after closing the door but still… Gosh… Haha.

    Hope you all liked my stuff. :) it was fun to make. Took a good few hours, though, I had to play videogames in between, hahaha.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      😂😂😂

      Love it! And yes she’s awesome and I love that you contribute!

      Better yet, what video game did you play? My son and I are playing F1 2023 together.

        • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I played the first one competitively in the late 90s or early 2000s. I’ve never tried the new one. How does it hold up? It’s getting to be an older game now isn’t it?

          • Bennu@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Haha! I had my chance at competitive play the 2010s! StarCraft 2 is an awesome game, it does offer a lot for strategy and flavor, I also played the original one when I was younger by the way. You should give the sequel a try, it’s free to play now and it’s aging well.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Bennu

      If you’d like a copy of the book DM me and we’ll work it out, you won one!!

      You also got first place!!!

  • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    I don’t want the book. I just want to thank you for doing this.

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Pyrotic8696

      Good morning! Pixel Witch opted to give you the copy they won. So YOU WON :)

      DM me and we’ll start working through getting you a copy of the book, and there are techniques to help you find spoons within it but also stuff for our loved ones to be more understanding with our lack of spoons.

  • Zannsolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    How to ADHD, wait for wife and kid to go to sleep and work all night fueled by Adderall caffeine and an interesting technical problem.

  • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I would write something funny to try to win the book… But it’ll probably just join the ever-growing stack of books on my shelf that I will never even start reading…

  • Captain_Waffles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Wow, my brain just looked at those guidelines and went “yes, those are all words, no, I will not read them”, so here I am leaving a comment.

  • Krydex@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    My (more-or-less) unsung heroes would have to be my psychotherapists who, believe it or not, did not diagnose me with ADHD! They did tests on me, yes, but each time the results were inconclusive.

    Only then did they help me realize how much fear and anxiety were playing a big part in my executive dysfunction. A part bigger than I could have imagined. It is those things that they helped me deal with and that has genuinely changed not only my life but also my outlook on it.

    I still may be neurodivergent. But I will not let that fact be my identity, by leaning into it and thinking it’s the source of all my problems. Instead they helped me learn how to be in control of my life more than ever :)