ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 is an examination of how people diagnosed with ADHD creatively make use of the diagnosis as well as the explanation of it when understanding themselves and their actions. The chapter presents two general positions: The first position involves an identification with ADHD as a way of being human and a specific way of managing (and failing to manage) life based on certain neurological structures in the brain. The second position involves processes of distancing from ADHD by separating the self from ADHD, transferring ADHD into an entity, explaining ADHD as caused by neurochemical impulses, and disclaiming behaviour connected to ADHD. Lastly the chapter discusses how a neurobiological explanation of ADHD potentially reduces understanding of how to live and cope with symptoms ADHD.
