As an entrepreneur, Hartmann's also founded several successful businesses including Woodley Herber Company which operated until 1978. It was at that point I lost all interest in finishing the book, and only did so out of spite and the need to achieve my reading goal for the year.

About the time I got diagnosed with ADHD, Thom Hartmann produced the first edition of ADHD: Hunters in a Farmer’s World.If the wild boar vanishes into the brush, and a rabbit appears, the Hunter is off in a new direction. We are proud members of the Neurodiversity Movement, which is also a part of the Disability Rights Movement. The hunter versus farmer hypothesis proposes that the high frequency of ADHD in contemporary settings "represents otherwise normal behavioral strategies that become maladaptive in such evolutionarily novel environments as the formal school classroom.

The central thesis to this book is that in a primal, tribal environment, people that are hyper-alert and reactive are necessary for the collective safety and survival of the group. In writing the book, she was dismayed to learn that children with inattentive ADHD continue to be under-diagnosed and adults with inattentive ADHD often are incorrectly diagnosed with depression or anxiety.The following year she created the non-profit organization, ADD Resources, with a mission to educate adults and helping professionals about ADHD in adults. As an entrepreneur, he's founded several successful businesses which still are operating, and lived and worked with his wife, Louise, and their three (now adult) children on several continents. They gradually moved west across what is now Europe and North Africa, and eventually across the Atlantic into North America.

I am old school and for better or worse I think ADHD is a label society give kids so that they can medicate and not have to deal with behavioral problems. If you really think about this, it is in fact quite strange that a society only strives for 1 set of rules [the "norm"] and in case you're not fitting in, you are labeled as being sick or not normal. In the areas that were lush with plant and animal life and had a low human population density, hunters and gatherers predominated. My guess is the latest version hasn't been sufficiently updated with the newer scientific understandings in the field.After feeling pretty torn up and unworthy and downright confused about my place in the world, this book helped me reframe my diagnosis in a way that made me love the way my mind works while simultaneously understanding that my type of mind isn’t in fact a burden, but indeed integral to society.

Providing a supportive “survival” guide to help fine tune your natural skill set, rather than suppress it, Hartmann shows that each mind--whether hunter, farmer, or somewhere in between--has value and great potential waiting to be tapped. for instance, if adhd is as useful as she proclaims then their would be a minimalistic need to self medicate for it to semi adapt in a farmer world of delay gratification. While it offers a great perspective of ADHD as an asset the authors do not spend enough time talking about the experiences of people with far less privilege than the primarily white and male success stories they offer as examples. He has helped set up hospitals, famine relief programs, schools, and refugee centers in India, Uganda, Australia, Colombia, Russia, and the United States through the German-based Salem International program. This opposite has been considered normal in our culture, but there is a disadvantage to this ability, i.The opposite of a person with ADHD is the person who has the ability to focus attention on one task for an extended period of time.