The Little Monster: Growing Up With ADHD

I have ADHD and this book was funny, and hit everything that I experienced in life, that people think I’m crazy when I talk about it! It was refreshing to know I was not alone!I am struggling to get through my Degree, and this book helped in so many ways.Very expensive for the size of the paperback book! But I am glad I made the decision to buy it!

There have been several well written and very useful reviews of this book already. I just want to add mine to the collection.I am a substitute teacher and was looking for a book to help me understand ADHD. This was the book. Also, unlike so many other books, it isn't geared to a regular classroom teacher with the ability to set her own lesson plans and class structure.I really appreciate Mr. Jergen telling his story so bluntly - it will be a big help to many in all walks of life.

Great book for someone with ADHD and/or a significant other to help understand what it's like. Thank you!

Great book which is well written and very insightful. As a parent of a child with ADHD, it is extremely helpful to be able to get inside her head and see what makes her do the things she does.

It was an interesting book. I think that he makes a lot of points in regards to the mental disorder. Not sure if I agree with the benefits.

It appears that a liquid was spilled on the book. Other than that, the book was fine.

Gave me some interesting insights from someone who actually has ADD.

Overall this book was a great read. If you're a parent of a child with severe ADHD and auditory processing difficulties like I am, you'll be on the edge of your seat as if this is the best thriller in the world. If you don't understand why I say this, you clearly aren't such a parent but you should read it anyway in order to increase your understanding of other people's struggles. It was enlightening and I recommend it to families and individuals with ADHD and related difficulties because it tells one version of the truth that will help you to know that you aren't alone.However, I don't give it the five stars it would otherwise deserve because the author didn't do the necessary work of self-reflection and considering others in the conclusions of the book. What he describes is true and it clearly represents immense suffering on the part of his parents, who had advantages that many parents don't have. They had the community and family support needed to sanely raise an ADHD child, which frankly MOST parents today don't have. They had several older boys. They had the physical and financial resources to deal with the consequences of one child's disability. And still it was clearly a very difficult ordeal that impacted the lives of his parents and the childhoods of his siblings. That is not his fault for having a disability but turning the very minor possible advantages of ADHD into a fair trade and naively declaring that he would hope he would have a child with ADHD when he never did and clearly did not have the rock solid organizational skills and patience needed for such a parenting load is a failure in the book. While being true in many parts and a good accounting of things that are not often recounted, the book narrowly skirts the cheap and untruthful trap of blaming parents for not being superhuman and without physical or other needs.ADHD is a much more severe disability than I ever previously guessed. This book helps to illustrate that and show why it is the case. But while there are strengths that must be developed in all people with ADHD it is not a fate I'd wish on any child or any family.