Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Going to school with ADHD, before ADHD. Volume 2: School

Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Going to school with ADHD, before ADHD. Volume 2: School

by Benjamin Tomes
Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Going to school with ADHD, before ADHD. Volume 2: School

Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Going to school with ADHD, before ADHD. Volume 2: School

by Benjamin Tomes

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Overview

There have been books about ADHD before, but nothing quite like this funny ebook series.

Undiscovered author Benjamin Tomes outlines the distinct line between discovery and origin as he details a childhood impacted by ADHD in a world not yet familiar with the disorder.

Many have treated ADHD as a pandemic that sprang from nowhere, sapping the attention spans of scores of school-aged children. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet few have delved into our past to examine instances of the disorder before it was recognized by modern medicine. This humorous memoir entertains while it recounts life in the 1970's and 1980's, before anyone had ever heard of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

In his four part humorous memoir entitled Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind, Tomes provides an unprecedented firsthand account of ADHD. His take on a childhood impacted by the focus disorder and dysfunctional family is as hilarious as it is poignant, albeit not for the faint of heart. Despite home tumult and academic failure, Tomes would go on to become an award winning coach and successful teacher, providing an interesting perspective on an unlikely ascent from rural miscreant to urban legend.

Set primarily in the small towns of Northern Wisconsin, Tomes uses heavy handed humor to deliver blunt force drama drawn from his personal war on boredom. His birth to twenty-one account is broken into four key areas and the series is issued in volumes along those lines.

Volume 2: School

School reads like a self-written psych report, detailing chronic underachievement, perpetual inattention and endless tales of teacher torment. Focusing on school-based stories of inattention and calculated defiance, expect the unexpected in this laugh-out-loud summary of school in the 1980’s. Along the way, lockers are violated, field trips go bad, languages are mangled, teachers are pranked and unspeakable stunts are pulled with apples and squirrels.


Volume 3: Play, will be released Summer of 2014.
Volume 4: Work, will be released in Fall of 2014.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940149504275
Publisher: Benjamin Tomes
Publication date: 02/26/2014
Series: Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Growing up with ADHD, before ADHD , #2
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

From rural miscreant to urban legend, Ben Tomes has had no shortage of unique twists and turns on his way to becoming one of the more influential high school coaches in the country and an unlikely path toward a career in education.
Tomes made a name for himself on a large scale while working at Milwaukee’s Custer High School from 1998 to 2004. There, he entrenched himself as a Special Education Teacher and an integral part of an attempt to turn the struggling urban school around. He started a high school wrestling program with a budget of $400 and less than 100 boys eligible to do sports out of a school population of 1,800. The results of that project were nothing short of miraculous.
From a school population that was graduating a mere thirty-three percent of its students, all but three of nearly 150 young men who completed one year in the program graduated on time. Despite having no experience prior to high school, his Custer team nearly won a state team title and watched as the program won their first individual state championship in over forty-two years. The team’s ascent on and off the mat was oft celebrated in print and on air, and the team became instantly recognizable amongst prep teams of all sports in Wisconsin.
His work there did not go unnoticed. In 2002, he was named the National High School Coach of the Year by Wrestling USA Magazine, the sport’s largest publication. He was the youngest to ever receive the honor, and the first and only coach from Wisconsin to win the award. In 2003, he was featured in a highly acclaimed PBS Documentary entitled, “Wrestling City Kids”, which won an award in Wisconsin for Best Feature Length Documentary by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. In 2005, he departed for Florida where he started a program at a new high school and replicated the success on and off the mat, earning him recognition by Sports Illustrated, who named him their National Coach of Influence in the May 17th, 2005 edition of the magazine.
Tomes now resides in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with his children Abigail and Zander. He teaches writing and social media courses to digital marketing students at a local college.
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