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Adventures in ADD & Addiction

Memoir

 

 

This is a coming-of-age saga that highlights the perils and peaks of living
with misdiagnosed ADHD, learning disabilities, dysfunctional family dynamics
and rock and roll. It’s equal parts funny and frenetic. The author weaves in
the way she documents periods of her life through eclectic music, as she
takes you along with her on bittersweet, misadventures. Get lost everywhere
(GPS wasn’t a thing yet), including in Jamaica, Israel, and Canada and learn
what it’s like to grow up missing social cues, not getting sarcasm,
misplacing and replacing entire wardrobes, and navigating life smart but
spacey.

About the Author

Rachel Wills is a Licensed Professional Counselor who specializes in
working with adults with ADHD and co-occurring disorders. After living on
both coasts’ multiple times, she returned to her home state of Maryland and
set down roots. She’s active in her local long-term recovery community,
synagogue and neighborhood. However, she used to admittedly, be ‘all over
the place’ and couldn’t choose just one profession and stick with it if her
life depended on it, which it did. Ms. Wills was told by a child
psychologist that the severity of her ‘minimal brain dysfunction’ (now
commonly referred to as ADHD) would preclude her going to college. Yet, she
completed two vastly different graduate school programs (the first while
backpacking throughout the country and living in a consensus-based
community).

Her constant sense of feeling ‘different’ and ‘other-than’ which once led
her to abuse substances and job hop became her greatest asset – empathy.
Today, Ms. Wills is proud to call herself a wildflower among orderly roses.
She’s still not the most organized but is fervent about helping others learn
to become their own best advocate and embrace themselves for who they
are.

 

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RABT 09/11/2024 - 5:06 pm

Thanks for posting

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