We have started our new Signed Book Giveaway Contest: Untapped Brilliance: How to Reach Your Full Potential As an Adult with Attention Deficit Disorder by Jacqueline Sinfield. I’ve read the book and I really like it, Jacqueline has provided us with a brilliant roadmap to reaching our full potential in her book Untapped Brilliance!
 
It’s easy to enter the drawing by starting a new relevant topic on our ADDer World ADHD Social Network, inviting new members and, new members are automatically entered into the drawing box.
 
We are well over 3000 members now!! Goodness, we started as a relatively small community for people seeking a more positive place to discuss the trails, tribulations, triumphs and inspirations of life with ADHD. Over Three…Thousand members – we’ve come quite a ways. And our members are an active bunch, with over 1600 blog posts and over 1000 topics posted in the main forum alone! Let’s keep on keeping on! Keep spreading the word about our ADDer World. If you’re not a member yet, join us!
 
Here’s an announcement posted on our network that I think is helpful: Melissa Orlov, Kevin Murphy, and Dr. Ned and Sue Hallowell are offering the six session ADHD Effect on Adult Couples Continuing Education (CE) Phone Seminar for Professionals beginning January 10, 2012: www.adhdmarriage.com/seminars/adhd-effect-couplesThere is a charge for this event, and for further details you can also visit our ‘events’ section on the ADDer World Social Network (I receive no compensation for posting this).
 
One last announcement: Sharon St. John, LPC has put together an ADHD SUPPORT GROUP GUIDE to using One Boy’s Struggle: A Memoir. Facilitators and members of support groups around the world have written me over the last few years telling me about their experiences using One Boy’s Struggle as a tool and many have asked for a guide book, so it is helpful that Sharon has taken the time to put a guide together for any other support groups that may like to use it as well.
 
Thank you all for making our ADDer World Social Network the wonderful place that it is.

Pick a disorder, any disorder, that you do not know much about. Find someone with that disorder and I’ll bet they wish you would understand the issues they are dealing with a little bit more. They may even wish that you would walk in their shoes for a day or two.

The thing about educating the public about ADHD is that it can be so different for each and every one of us. ADHD is a neurobiological disorder with a spectrum of symptoms. Truly understanding ADHD can be mind boggling just for us, not to mention there’s so much disagreement in our community on how we should talk about it, perceive it and respond to it.

I created ADDer World, the ADHD social network not just to create awareness of and about ADHD. - Nearly everyone is already aware of ADHD unless they have been living in a remote area without TV, the Web or Newspapers for the last ten years. The problem is something else. Most do not fully understand what it is or the people who have it. That’s where the real problem is, understanding and relating. I created ADDer World so folks with ADHD can come together and discuss things we ‘get’ together. A lot of times we are not looking for specific answers or specific solutions, we just don’t want to be alone, or worse, feel like we are alone. 

The truth is we don’t have to be alone.