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This chapter begins from the standpoint that voices of personal experience are important for our understanding of mental health issues. Mary Horton-Salway examines a range of qualitative research on children, adolescents and adults with ADHD. The theme of gendering is central to this chapter because it has important consequences for children and adults in recognition and diagnosis of ADHD and this shapes how they experience and interpret their lives, how others see them and how they see themselves. Horton-Salway examines the idea of narrative as a situated context for troubles-telling, positive talk and the transformation of selves. The chapter examines forms of resistance to pathologised versions of lives and spoiled identities and how accounts of personal experience are produced in response to the micro-politics of social interaction, the context of troubles-telling and the wider context of ADHD discourse.
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Horton-Salway, M., Davies, A. (2018). Voices of Experience: Narrative Lives and Selves. In: The Discourse of ADHD. The Language of Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76026-1_6
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