Cate Osborn & Erik Gude - The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
Schedule
Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
399 N Euclid Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63108 | Clayton, MO
Cate Osborn & Erik Gude - The ADHD Field Guide for AdultsPresented by Left Bank Books & Left Bank Books Foundation
Join us for a special event with social media sensations and mental health advocates Cate Osborn and Erik Gude for a modern and refreshingly honest guide to managing ADHD for adults. Co-hosts of the wildly popular Catie and Erik's Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure, Cate and Erik have created a book "that gives solid information and practical tips in a format that you can actually consume" (KC Davis, LPC, New York Times bestselling author). We are excited for you to join us for a signing line and meet and greet. Cate & Erik will sign and take photos with you!
"This book has everything: from science to practical advice to romance to actual recipes. Like, for food, from a chef. At once gentle and no-nonsense, this is a truly comprehensive look at ADHD--what it means (and doesn't mean) to have it, and how to build systems to navigate a world designed for neurotypical brains. If you've been given an ADHD diagnosis, if you love someone who has, or even if you think ADHD might describe you, don't sleep on this book." --Dr. Mark Shrime, surgeon, career coach, and author of Solving for Why
Cate & Erik will sign copies! Signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For signed copies, please order before noon on March 20th.
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About the Authors
Cate Osborn, along with Erik Gude, is an educator and advocate for people with ADHD. She is the host of Sorry I Missed This on Understood.org, which focuses on ADHD's impact on relationships, communication, and intimacy, and the cohost of Catie and Erik's Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure. A certified sex educator, she is the advisor to Playboy for her expertise in the intersection of intimacy and neurodiversity. Her work has also appeared in Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, GQ, HuffPost, and other outlets. Find out more at Catieosaurus.com.
Erik Gude, along with Cate Osborn, is an educator and advocate for people with ADHD. He cohosts Catie and Erik's Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure and, with Cate Osborn, and frequently hosts panels about the intersection of ADHD and gaming at conventions, including DragonCon, Emerald City Comic Con, GenCon, MomoCon, and San Diego Comic-Con. Erik's ADHD Crafting Challenge was a huge success on TikTok with over 20 million views. A former cook, he is now a prop maker and fabricator at the legendary Fonco Studios. Follow him on TikTok and Instagram @HeyGude.
About The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
From the social media sensations and mental health advocates Cate Osborn and Erik Gude comes a modern and refreshingly honest guide to managing ADHD for adults, "that gives solid information and practical tips in a format that you can actually consume" (KC Davis, LPC, New York Times bestselling author).
WELCOME TO THE CLUB--ADHD is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in adults, yet "there are no US guidelines for diagnosing and treating patients beyond childhood" ( The New York Times). With roughly eight million adults living with ADHD and more people seeking and receiving diagnoses each year, there's a huge gap between lived experiences and straightforward information.
Enter Cate Osborn and Erik Gude, ADHD advocates and educators and hosts of the wildly popular podcast Catie and Eric's Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure. They have witnessed this info gap firsthand in their own lives and in the flood of questions they regularly field from their millions of social media followers. Irreverent, indispensable, candid, and reassuring, Cate and Erik don't paper over the realities of neurodivergence. They give it to you straight.
Featuring the most up-to-date foundational information, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults also explores issues that are rarely discussed, such as navigating sex and intimacy, and the healthcare system. Ingeniously structured and designed to be accessible for neurodivergent readers, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults features a wealth of knowledge and hard-won wisdom on:
Identifying comorbidities (e.g. autism; anxiety; depression; dyslexia; and others)
Coping with stress, boredom, and other experiences
Asking for help
Creating organizational systems that work for you and how to triage if you diverge from them
Improving time management
Recognizing the effects of hormones on ADHD
Learning to listen to your body when interoception makes it tricky
Approaching sex and sensory issues, desire and intimacy
Noticing Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and other cognitive distortions in relationships
And much more...
From taking responsibility to testing and evaluations, to tips for productivity and organization, to thoughtful discussions on diagnosis and identity, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is the perfect book not only for adults who have ADHD, but for anyone who wants to understand them.
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