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Reed Anderside
The author, writing as Reed Anderside, served as a counselor for the Department of Rehabilitation Services for twenty-two years. During this time, the counselor began to identify s...view moreThe author, writing as Reed Anderside, served as a counselor for the Department of Rehabilitation Services for twenty-two years. During this time, the counselor began to identify similar components that were present among his clients who had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. As someone who had also grown up with A.D.D., the counselor became fascinated with the unique personalities and traits that were exhibited by his clients, such as forgetting, backtracking, and impulsiveness. This fascination led the author to a more intensive study of other individuals whose lives had also been altered by this genetic disorder. The result of his study is a fictionalized account of Albert Newsome, whose unique, and overpowering, attraction (known as hyper-focusing) became his ‘thorn in the flesh.view less