Deborah showed us her book of cliches on Monday 27 October. Here are some views.
As I (John McVey) recall it, the exercise had to do with finding the unnormal in the normal, by way of a stammering read. We also discussed Deb's ongoing Shh... book, and some left- and right-handed handwriting exercises.
Highly recommended —
Richard Friedman, "A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D." in The New York Times Sunday Review, 31 October / 2 November 2014
Recent neuroscience research shows that people with A.D.H.D. are actually hard-wired for novelty-seeking — a trait that had, until relatively recently, a distinct evolutionary advantage. Compared with the rest of us, they have sluggish and underfed brain reward circuits, so much of everyday life feels routine and understimulating.
To compensate, they are drawn to new and exciting experiences and get famously impatient and restless with the regimented structure that characterizes our modern world. In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.
The comments are a useful complement to the essay, and are worth reading through.
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