Dirty Laundry
Less shame, more understanding and kinder ways to live with ADHD.
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4.3 • 20 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
An honest guide to help you understand your ADHD, at home and in relationships.
ADHD can turn everyday things such as cleaning, timekeeping, money, messages and personal hygiene into sources of disproportionate shame. Dirty Laundry begins with those realities and asks a more useful question: what happens when judgement is replaced by understanding?
Drawing on Roxanne Emery’s experience of adult ADHD and Richard Pink’s perspective as her partner, the couple behind @ADHD_Love combine candid personal stories with practical strategies for life at home and in relationships. They explore time blindness, hyperfocus, losing things, task avoidance, finances and communication, showing how support can work with an ADHD brain rather than against it.
For adults with ADHD, the book offers ways to recognise shame without letting it define them. For partners, parents, friends and family, it explains how patience, structure and honest communication can reduce conflict and make practical support more effective.
Funny, vulnerable and useful, this is a guide to living with ADHD without turning every difficulty into a moral verdict.
‘Made us giggle and helped us forge a much deeper connection with our friends and family with ADHD. A godsend!’ Davina McCall & Michael Douglas
‘Essential for ALL ADHDers and those who love them’ *5 star reader review
‘It’s not just me! Blew my mind, validated my life’ *5 star reader review
‘Life-changing’ *5 star reader review
‘Soul-soothing reading for anyone in an ADHD affected relationship’ *5 star reader review
Customer Reviews
Such a great read!
Brilliant read! I initially bought the audiobook, but got like 2 paragraphs into it and had to buy the digital version because I felt like my mind was overtaking the narration. I believe I have lived with ADHD for my entire life, always thought there was something wrong with me as I just didn’t function like my peers. A lifetime of constantly being criticised for my behaviour when actually I just needed help. This book has helped me so much because I can relate to so much that Rox has said within, it’s actually pushed me to get an official diagnosis which I have booked in for next month. Rich and Rox if you read this review, I’d just like to say thank you so much for helping to push awareness and share your incredible journey together, it’s helped me so much gain an understanding of how my brain works! I will be suggesting to my family and friends that they give it a read so that ADHD can be better understood by neurotypical people! Again, thank you guys, you’ve helped me and you will have undoubtedly helped others with this book.
Very Insightful
A great read and a good insight into my own relationship.