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Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood is a foundational self-development and clinical education book by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, presented here in audiobook form with narration by John McDonough. First published in the 1990s, it helped shift public understanding of ADHD from a narrow, deficit-based label into a more nuanced view of a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition that affects attention regulation, impulse control, executive function, and emotional life. The book is aimed at adults with ADHD, parents, teachers, and mental health professionals, but its broader purpose is to explain why people with ADHD often struggle with procrastination, disorganization, distractibility, and inconsistent performance without reducing those struggles to laziness or lack of discipline. It combines clinical insight, practical coping ideas, and patient-centered explanation in a way that makes the condition easier to recognize and discuss.