ADHD Redefined: ADDitude Honors ADHD Empowerment Month in Groundbreaking Campaign
September 21, 2024 This October, ADDitude is shifting the focus from ADHD awareness to empowerment. From educating others to lifting up our own community. From seeking external acceptance to celebrating self-knowledge. The first-ever ADHD Empowerment Month will kick off October 1 with a live webinar featuring Penn and Kim Holderness of ADHD Is Awesome, who […]
September 21, 2024
This October, ADDitude is shifting the focus from ADHD awareness to empowerment. From educating others to lifting up our own community. From seeking external acceptance to celebrating self-knowledge.
The first-ever ADHD Empowerment Month will kick off October 1 with a live webinar featuring Penn and Kim Holderness of ADHD Is Awesome, who will discuss the new definitions of ADHD proposed by ADDitude community members. The month will continue with exclusive profiles of creative ADHD powerhouses like novelist Rebecca Makkai, stand-up comic Rachel Feinstein, and illustrator Hayley Wall.
Each day in October, ADDitude will highlight a different definition of ADHD brought to life through stories told by our readers, who said ADHD is creativity. ADHD is curiosity. ADHD is solving problems. ADHD is resilience. And so much more. Below are two examples of these powerful community insights.
ADDitude will be sharing messages like these each day in October on social media and at http://additu.de/empowerment, and a free ADHD Empowerment Month calendar is available now at http://additu.de/oct-cal.
“The ADHD community is beyond ready to shift the focus away from dispelling ADHD myths and educating ADHD doubters,” says ADDitude General Manager Anni Rodgers. “Twenty years after the first ADHD Awareness Day, we are deliberately moving from an external focus to an internal one this October, We are shining our spotlight on the incredible stories, reflections, and definitions of ADHD contributed by members of the ADDitude community. Their voices usher in a new era of ADHD empowerment.”
ADDitude Editor-in-Chief Carole Fleck and General Manager Anni Rodgers are available during ADHD Empowerment Month to discuss the important and timely shift from awareness to empowerment, to highlight the insightful reflections from the ADDitude community, and to introduce Penn and Kim Holderness, and other role models profiled on http://additu.de/empowerment
About ADHD Awareness Month
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Senate established a national ADHD Awareness Day to spur greater understanding of the condition that affects an estimated 7 million children (11%) and 8.7 million adults (10%) in America. Over time, ADHD Awareness became a month-long observance with an external mission: dispelling myths, disseminating truths, and advocating for support among neurotypical populations. The campaign was a success. Virtually everyone now knows about ADHD.
About ADDitude magazine:
Since 1998, tens of millions of readers have trusted ADDitude to deliver expert advice and caring support, making it the leading media network for clinicians, educators, parents, and adults living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADDitude is not only the world’s most trusted source of strategies and information about ADHD and related conditions, such as learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, and oppositional defiant disorder. ADDitude is the voice of and advocate for the ADHD community. In 2021, ADDitude joined the WebMD family of health brands.
