@autistics I'm still reading Russell #Barkley's "Taking Charge of Adult ADHD" (2nd ed., 2022) — or rather, trying to. It's getting difficult for me to handle more than a page or two at a time. The problem isn't boredom (my #kaleidotropy makes me essentially immune to that) nor complexity of the material (Barkley is quite a good expositor). It's exasperation and outright anger, to the point of having fantasies of throwing the book across the room. The combination of arrogant, condescending neuronormativity with conspicuously sloppy conceptual reasoning makes this book more infuriating than ANYTHING I've yet read about autism, from ANY perspective. That includes Simon Baron-Cohen, and even one paper I read by a group of #ABA torture therapy apologists. I hope this book is not typical of #ADHD literature in general. If it is, studying ADHD is going to be a hell of a chore.