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| Writer | Edward Hallowell, John Ratey |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | ANCHOR BOOKS |
| Publish Date | 2011 |
| Pages | 320 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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Leading up to the publication of the first edition of Driven to Distraction in 1994, I recall a conversation I had with Jonathan Galassi, now the head of the New York publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Friends since high school and college, Jon and I confide in each other on just about everything.
As an editor, Jon had concerns about this new book I was about to send out into the world. “No one’s heard of attention deficit disorder, and from the title I’m worried people will think it’s a book about cars.” Nearly two million in sales later, Jon and I still chuckle at the fallibility of even the most perspicacious of editors.
Back in 1994, few people had even heard of ADD, as it was then called (now it’s ADHD, soon to change again, no doubt!). Those few who had heard of it didn’t really know what it meant. It conjured up stereotypical images of hyperactive little boys disrupting classrooms and turning life at home into chaos.
It was thought that children “grew out of” ADD, so that it disappeared by adulthood. Only a rare few doctors knew that ADD could continue in adults and that females could have it as easily as males. I learned about ADD in 1981, the first year of my fellowship in child psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston.
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