ADHD isn’t rarer in girls, it’s just been missed. Research long focused on boys, leaving many girls undiagnosed. On (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social spoke with @cciccone.bsky.social about the “female protective effect” and her book "Nowhere Girl."
Nowhere Girl A Memoir by Carla Ciccone
Picked this up today. Nowhere Girl A memoir by Canadian Author @cciccone.bsky.social Just started and it’s a great easy read that I’m absorbing and flying through and that’s saying a lot from this inattentive late diagnosed adhd’r. I highly recommend #canadianlit
That’s high praise. Thank you!!
“…a child with ADHD receives 20,000 or more corrective or negative messages by age ten…” Yet science didn’t study how ADHD showed up in girls until the 1990s. On the next (MIS)Treated, @namshine.bsky.social talks to @cciccone.bsky.social about “Nowhere Girl,” and being diagnosed at 39.
📚 Books 📚
@cciccone.bsky.social’s Nowhere Girl was so deeply affecting. I’ve recommended it to so many people. Number one book of the year imho
Carly! This is the loviest message to wake up to. Thank you so much🙏🏼❤️
Thank you for saying this so eloquently. It’s been bothering me for years!
I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.
Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.
Read this excerpt and then pick up a copy of @cciccone.bsky.social's incredible reported memoir 'Nowhere Girl : Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation'
Thank you Julie 💖💖💖
It was in second grade that writer @cciccone.bsky.social first understood the stakes of becoming overwhelmed by her environment. As a child with undiagnosed ADHD, she tried her best to blend in among her peers, but not having the space to express herself came at a cost. thewalrus.ca/adhd-girls/
Thank you so much for coming and making the night so fun and special. Love you!!!💖
Julie!! Thank you! I’m so happy that you’re hosting the launch🥹💖
My pal @cciccone.bsky.social wrote an amazing book about girls and ADHD that comes out in September.
If you're in Toronto, come out to the launch and get your copy signed!
Thank you Julie ilu 💖💖💖
My pal @cciccone.bsky.social has a book coming out soon on women, ADHD and the impacts of late-in-life diagnosis.
I don't have ADHD and I still devoured this book because it's brilliant, heartbreaking, laugh out loud funny, and such a powerful example of misogyny in health care.
Order it!
This one’s for the U.S. Nowhere Girls www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735723...
My memoir about women with ADHD has preorder links! Hooray! Here’s Canada’s www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/735723...
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My daughter asked me what a rosary is and I told her it’s a fidget toy for Catholics.
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I have not become completely numb; I can still be shocked by some depths of depraved sadism inflicted by this collection of despicable thugs, giggling sociopaths, and dead-eyed apparatchiks. May their days be short and frustrated.
I hear you.
I’m so sorry Niko. You should be celebrating. I’m here if you need to talk ❤️
Psst. The Liberals had previously announced this beefed up border plan a whiiiiiiiile ago ago but now Ivanka's dad gets to act like this is a win for him.
Absolute fucking theatrics. Just a school yard bully being enabled by everyone around him.
What, and I can't emphasize this enough, the fuck? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
okay but wouldn't it be cooler if we also didn't do business with him because he is a bigoted, racist, classist loser?
