Tip of the ADHD Iceberg

A compassionate guide for everyone grappling with their neurodiversity
Accepting a label or receiving a formal diagnosis is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to neurodivergence. Your ADHD doesn't exist in a vacuum: your upbringing, your culture, your relationships and any other conditions you might have, such as autism, depression or anxiety, all affect your experience as a neurodivergent individual. Navigating these intersecting areas can be challenging - but it isn't impossible.
Tip of the ADHD Iceberg offers a sensitive exploration of the nuances of neurodiversity, preparing you for the whirlwind that can come after a late diagnosis and equipping you with the essential tools for self-advocacy. In this book, ADHD Girls Founder and award-winning keynote speaker Dr Sam Hiew expertly blends her lived experience of ADHD and autism with her background in medical science to create a deeply empathetic guide to processing your diagnosis in the context of your whole life, from your personal relationships to the workplace environment.
Affirming, vindicating and empowering, you will learn to heal from a life of flying under the radar as well as how to prepare yourself for the road ahead.
Contents include:
- Step 1: Understand It's Not Your Fault
- Step 2: Expect to Discover Co-Occurring Conditions
- Step 3: Understand Your Nature
- Step 4: Trace Your Beginnings
- Step 5: Identify Your Emotional Needs
- Step 6: Expect Your Relationships to Change and Adapt
- Step 7: Navigate Your Neurodiversity at Work
- Step 8: Find Your Community
- Step 9: Emerge as Your True Self

Dr Samantha Hiew is the founder of ADHD Girls, a social impact company with a dual mission to empower neurodivergent women and improve neurodiversity understanding through an intersectional lens. With lived experience of ADHD, autism, and identifying with dyspraxic traits, Sam is a highly sought after speaker on neurodiversity, women's empowerment and intersectionality. Sam weaves her scientific, medical communications, and cross-cultural background to illuminate neurodiversity in an accessible and relatable way. Her mission is to go beyond the surface to explain the root causes, and she has won multiple awards for her work including the Difference Maker Award, the Rising Star Award (Entrepreneurs), Innovation & Excellence Award (Women's Mental Health Initiative) and the Storyteller Award (This Can Happen). Sam has spoken to over 100,000 people to date and organically built an online audience of over 70,000 followers across her channels. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, Loose Women, Stylist Magazine, the Guardian, BBC, and Research Features.
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