Attention Seeker

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In ATTENTION SEEKER, Medland cuts through the noise online and reclaims the narrative of ADHD to uncover the reality of how ADHD affects individuals from early childhood to old age. Structured around three themes - Self, Society and the Attention Economy - the book moves from chapters on diagnosis, education, and the gendered experience of ADHD to chapters on family, employment, addiction and prisons.

The book closes with an inspiring anti-capitalist manifesto. Medland asks, in the current attention economy, what can the neurotypical reader learn from a life spent managing one's attention in radically different ways?

ATTENTION SEEKER will be the first book of its kind: a definitive text by a writer with ADHD, which unveils the truth about what it means to have ADHD in the UK today.