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  • The ADHDer's Guide to Self-Discovery, Sol Smith

    Sol Smith, a coach diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, argues that the scattered, undisciplined feeling comes from environments built for other brains, not from a lack of willpower. He covers shame, time blindness, and burnout, then the tactics: gamifying work, body doubling, strategic avoidance, and finding community. It's a strengths-framed coaching book, not a clinical text. For the newly diagnosed, the undiagnosed, and anyone tired of being told to fix themselves.

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  • The Autistic Burnout Workbook, Dr. Megan Anna Neff

    Megan Anna Neff is a neurodivergent psychologist, and this workbook is for the autistic adult who has hit the wall: the skills that used to work are gone, the masking isn't sustainable, and rest isn't fixing it. She walks you through recognizing burnout and building a recovery plan around your own life. Autistic burnout isn't a formal diagnosis and the research on it is early. For autistic and AuDHD adults who are there now.

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  • Brain First Business, Amanda Perry

    Amanda Perry has founded more than one company with ADHD, and this is her method for building a business around that wiring instead of against it. It covers running the operation, shaping the work around how your attention runs, and avoiding the burnout that hits ADHD founders hard. For entrepreneurs who keep building businesses their own brain can't sustain. She's UK-based.

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  • How to Keep House While Drowning, KC Davis

    KC Davis is a therapist, and her approach to housework is function over form: a home exists to serve you, not to be judged. It covers cleaning and organizing when you're overwhelmed by ADHD, depression, chronic illness, or plain exhaustion, and the shame that comes with a sink full of dishes. It isn't ADHD-specific.

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  • Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price, PhD

    The title is the argument. Devon Price says what gets called laziness is almost always an unseen barrier, exhaustion, or burnout, and the book makes the case across work, shame, and the overworked people who get blamed for not doing more. It's a cultural argument, not a clinical text, and it isn't specific to autism or ADHD. If you've ever called yourself lazy, or you manage someone you've called that, read it.

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  • Unmasking Autism, Devon Price, PhD

    Devon Price is a social psychologist writing from inside the experience, and this is the book on masking: the lifelong performance of looking normal and what it costs. It covers how masking forms, how to recognize it in yourself, the burnout it produces, and how to start taking it off. For adults who suspect or just learned they are autistic, especially the ones who were told they couldn't be because they seemed fine.

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  • Welcome to AuDHD, Megan Griffith

    Megan Griffith was diagnosed with both autism and ADHD in her late twenties, and she wrote this practical guide from inside that. Daily life, work, identity, and staying out of burnout when the two pull in opposite directions. If every book you've picked up explains half of you, this one covers both. It's lived experience, not clinician-authored.

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  • Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Sarah Hendrickx, Jess Hendrickx

    Sarah and Jess Hendrickx pull together the research on autistic women and girls and set it next to first-person accounts, from childhood through old age. Masking, burnout, and what menopause does to an autistic nervous system each get their own treatment. Get the 2024 second edition. For women wondering whether the diagnosis fits, the clinicians assessing them, and parents of girls who don't look like the textbook.

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