Reply To: Discourse Analysis and ADHD

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Hi Will

I’m guessing you have access to a uni library? Are you most interested in discourse analysis in terms of how people understand and talk about ADHD, or specifically how you are speaking and how that is misinterpreted by others?

Do the people misunderstanding your intention as oppositional know about your diagnosis? Does it only happen with people who don’t think of you as ‘the one with ADHD’? (If that makes sense?) I’m wondering if people are assuming negative things about ADHD, and therefore about what you’re saying/doing.

Have a look specifically at critical discourse analysis and critical disability theory.

I really like Gregory Bowden’s work for ADHD specific stuff. David Hyatt for Critical Discourse Analysis, Dan Goodley for disability studies and Braidotti for getting out there and challenging how we think of what ‘human’ means (though I’m not sure you’d find anything specifically relevant to your immediate question in Braidotti for now, she brings in wider issues and challenges the kinds of things that lead to what you’re talking about.)

Have fun. Nothing I love more than having my nose in a book. 😀

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