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I'll just be five more minutes : (and other tales from my ADHD brain) / Emily Farris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: xxviii, 267 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780306830310
  • 0306830310
Other title:
  • I will just be five more minutes
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Contents:
Author's note -- Introduction -- How we got here: the diagnosis that saved my marriage -- Everything, all the time -- Undiagnosed -- Seventeen little stories -- A case of the Mondays -- Lipstick is the only makeup you can put on in public -- Why I never responded to your text -- Street drugs -- Did you try this first? -- A breakup story -- Self-assessment -- What not to say to someone with ADHD -- No, I will not shutup about my abortion -- Ten things I hate about fruit -- Misdiagnosed -- Bad friend -- Tramp stamp -- So much potential -- A tale of two summers -- The ADHD taxman cometh -- Re: new thread **OPEN THIS ONE** (ignore the last one!!) -- You dont' want to be in love, you want to be in love with a movie -- Things I've forgotten and things I don't think I'll ever forget -- Me, myself, and my never-ending postpartum anxiety -- A shed of one's own -- Color of the year -- Yes, I have a body -- A fairly comprehensive list of everyone I think is mad at mae, with notes -- I'll just be five more minutes -- The scenic route -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.
Summary: "Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. To her, being bad at staying organized was just one of her many character flaws--that is, until she was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 35. Like many women and girls with undiagnosed ADHD, Emily spent her life internalizing criticisms about her lack of follow-through and carrying around a lot of shame as she tried to fit into a world designed for neurotypical brains. "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is a collection of honest, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking personal essays about Emily's experiences as a woman with ADHD. Far more than simply classic ADHD stories about being too energetic at school or being called too scatterbrained, "I'll Just be Five More Minutes" is a portrait of modern American life in a neurodivergent brain. It's about complicated relationships with family and friends (including celebrity stalker). Feminism and a woman's right to control her own body. Sleeping too little and drinking too much. Starting a side hustle--and then starting another one (and another and another). Finding the love of your life and then fighting to keep him. And, of course, self-acceptance. These are the deeply relatable, possibly secondhand embarrassment-inducing, wide-ranging stories about not quite fitting into the world without understanding why--a feeling we can all relate to whether we're neurodivergent or not. An essay collection both entertaining and enlightening, "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is for people who have ADHD, for the people who know and love them, and for anyone looking for a good laugh as well as a good cry. But it's also more than that--it's a book on how to exist as a woman, a mom, and a person in this fast-paced, overwhelming world we (somewhat begrudgingly) call home"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 616.8589 F246 Checked out 07/06/2024 33111011128762
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35



Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. As she saw it, disorganization was one of her countless character flaws--that is until she was diagnosed with ADHD at age 35. Like many girls who go undiagnosed, Emily grew up internalizing criticisms about her impulsivity and lack of follow-through. She held onto that shame as she tried (and often failed) to fit into a world designed for neurotypical brains.



I'll Just Be Five More Minutes is a personal essay collection of laugh-out-loud-funny, tear-jerking, and at times cringey true stories of Emily's experiences as a neurodivergent woman. With the newfound knowledge of her ADHD, Emily candidly reexamines her complicated relationships (including one with a celebrity stalker), her money problems, the years she spent unknowingly self-medicating, and her hyperfixations (two words: decorative baskets).



A memoir-in-essays both entertaining and enlightening, I'll Just Be Five More Minutes is for people with ADHD, as well as those who know and love them. This is a powerful collection of deeply relatable, wide-ranging stories about a woman's right to control her own body, about overwhelm and oversharing, about drinking too much and sleeping too little, and about being misunderstood by the people closest to you. At its heart, I'll Just Be Five More Minutes is about not quite fitting in and not really understanding why--something we've all felt whether we're neurodivergent or not.

Author's note -- Introduction -- How we got here: the diagnosis that saved my marriage -- Everything, all the time -- Undiagnosed -- Seventeen little stories -- A case of the Mondays -- Lipstick is the only makeup you can put on in public -- Why I never responded to your text -- Street drugs -- Did you try this first? -- A breakup story -- Self-assessment -- What not to say to someone with ADHD -- No, I will not shutup about my abortion -- Ten things I hate about fruit -- Misdiagnosed -- Bad friend -- Tramp stamp -- So much potential -- A tale of two summers -- The ADHD taxman cometh -- Re: new thread **OPEN THIS ONE** (ignore the last one!!) -- You dont' want to be in love, you want to be in love with a movie -- Things I've forgotten and things I don't think I'll ever forget -- Me, myself, and my never-ending postpartum anxiety -- A shed of one's own -- Color of the year -- Yes, I have a body -- A fairly comprehensive list of everyone I think is mad at mae, with notes -- I'll just be five more minutes -- The scenic route -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.

"Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. To her, being bad at staying organized was just one of her many character flaws--that is, until she was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 35. Like many women and girls with undiagnosed ADHD, Emily spent her life internalizing criticisms about her lack of follow-through and carrying around a lot of shame as she tried to fit into a world designed for neurotypical brains. "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is a collection of honest, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking personal essays about Emily's experiences as a woman with ADHD. Far more than simply classic ADHD stories about being too energetic at school or being called too scatterbrained, "I'll Just be Five More Minutes" is a portrait of modern American life in a neurodivergent brain. It's about complicated relationships with family and friends (including celebrity stalker). Feminism and a woman's right to control her own body. Sleeping too little and drinking too much. Starting a side hustle--and then starting another one (and another and another). Finding the love of your life and then fighting to keep him. And, of course, self-acceptance. These are the deeply relatable, possibly secondhand embarrassment-inducing, wide-ranging stories about not quite fitting into the world without understanding why--a feeling we can all relate to whether we're neurodivergent or not. An essay collection both entertaining and enlightening, "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is for people who have ADHD, for the people who know and love them, and for anyone looking for a good laugh as well as a good cry. But it's also more than that--it's a book on how to exist as a woman, a mom, and a person in this fast-paced, overwhelming world we (somewhat begrudgingly) call home"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261).

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