M.C. Publishing
Books for neurodivergent brains
Practical books for adults with ADHD, autism, or both. Written for you, not about you, and made to use on the hard days.
Where to start
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Same Brain, New Map
5.0 out of 5 from 1 rating
Best if you've just been diagnosed and nobody explained what any of it means.
The appointment lasted forty minutes. Someone said a word that reorganizes thirty years, and then the door closed. Three weeks later you have eleven tabs open, two opinions about medication, and nobody has told you what to do first.
And after itFind Your BottleneckWhen the orienting is done and the question becomes what to do on a Thursday.
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Find Your Bottleneck
5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings
Best if the problem is starting, not collapsing.
Somewhere in your home there's a planner with three good days filled in and the rest blank. ADHD advice hands you ten things to fix at once, when you can barely start one, and by Wednesday you've fixed none of them.
And after itThe ADHD Burnout Recovery SystemIf all seven are jammed at once, that isn't a bottleneck. It's burnout, and this is the manual for it.
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The ADHD Burnout Recovery System
4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings
Best if the drain is the overriding: years of pushing across the gap between wanting to and doing.
You took a week off and came back more tired than you left. From the outside nothing has collapsed, but the shower has become something you schedule. And it looks like seven other things, from work burnout to depression, so it's hard to know what you're dealing with.
And after itThe Autistic Burnout Recovery SystemIf the drain is sensory and social rather than executive, and masking is the cost. Many late-diagnosed adults need both.
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The Autistic Burnout Recovery System
4.4 out of 5 from 58 ratings
Best if the drain is sensory and social, and masking is what it costs you.
Exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. Skills you had last year, gone. Your tolerance for noise and people through the floor. You've been told to try harder, and trying harder is what got you here.
And after itThe Neuro-Mechanic's Guide to Home MaintenanceBook 3 of the series. Keeping a home on the energy you actually have.
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AuDHD, Honestly
New, November 2026
Best if you're autistic and ADHD, or think you might be.
You need a routine on Monday and can't stand it by Thursday. A sound you didn't notice yesterday has your jaw clenched today. Advice written for autism ignores your ADHD side, and advice written for ADHD runs over the autistic one.
And after itThe Autistic Burnout Recovery SystemPicks up from chapter 12, from the autistic side
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The Neuro-Mechanic's Guide to Home Maintenance
4.6 out of 5 from 36 ratings
Best if the room itself is what's stopping you.
Cleaning advice assumes a brain that starts on command. Pull everything out at once, and you get a doom pile. Decant the cereal into matching jars, and you've added friction. Just do it, and nothing happens.
And after itThe Autistic Burnout Recovery SystemBook 1 of the series. For when it isn't the house, it's the whole battery.
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The Attachment Switch
4.6 out of 5 from 35 ratings
Best if a slow reply or a silence sets off your whole body before you can think.
They didn't text back, and your body went first. Your heart is racing before you've had a single thought, and the advice is to just communicate, or stop overthinking, when the alarm has already taken your voice.
And after itThe Autistic Burnout Recovery SystemWhere this book itself sends you next: Book 1 of the series, for when the whole battery is flat.The library
The ADHD Burnout Recovery System
4.45 ratings
Best if the drain is the overriding: years of pushing across the gap between wanting to and doing.
Same Brain, New Map
5.01 rating
Best if you've just been diagnosed and nobody explained what any of it means.
The Neuro-Mechanic's Guide to Home Maintenance
4.636 ratings
Best if the room itself is what's stopping you.
The Attachment Switch
4.635 ratings
Best if a slow reply or a silence sets off your whole body before you can think.
The Autistic Burnout Recovery System
4.458 ratings
Best if the drain is sensory and social, and masking is what it costs you.
Which edition?
AuDHD, Honestly. Each link opens Amazon in your country.
Which edition?
The ADHD Burnout Recovery System. Each link opens Amazon in your country.
Which edition?
Find Your Bottleneck. Each link opens Amazon in your country.
Which edition?
The Autistic Burnout Recovery System. Each link opens Amazon in your country.
What readers say
4.5 out of 5143 ratings on Amazon across 6 books
This Author Gets Us!
In this book you are given the validation of being seen and heard just as you are without labels like lazy or just not trying hard enough. Rather than getting dense rectangles of text and exercises requiring essays , there are lots of bullet points and check lists.
What really resonated for me was the concept of energy credits with a long list of specific things I could do to feel more restored. I could check off boxes for handy reference to find again quickly. Some things I thought were just me being weird, like sometimes reading the same books, watching the same movies, eating the same foods, listening to the same music. I never realized how much of a comfort these things could be, and how much I was sometimes having to work to try new things when I was with other people, so they wouldn’t roll their eyes at me.
Modules mean you can go to whatever section you need right now, without feeling like you need to zoom through the book. If the term Autistic Burnout makes you internally scream “Yes, yes, that’s me, please help!” this book can help you and hopefully build a way to never feel autistic burnout again.
Fantastic Read!!!
At long last, a book about keeping a home functional that doesn’t assume everyone’s brain works the same way. The Neuro-mechanics Guide to Home Maintenance provides practical tools, humor, and zero-shame approach make everyday tasks feel much more manageable. I especially appreciated the ideas around breaking tasks down, saving your progress, and working with your energy rather than fighting against it. If traditional organization advice has never quite worked for you, this book is absolutely worth a look. Highly recommended!
Learning to switch is so helpful
As a man struggling with ADHD, this book was incredibly helpful and practical. Most relationship advice has made me feel broken or overly reactive, but this actually explains what’s happening in a neurodivergent nervous system. Instead of telling me to “just communicate,” it gave me body-based tools to calm the panic before it hijacks my thoughts and voice. The 60-Second Vagal Brake was a game changer. I also appreciated the clarity around limerence, boundaries, and insecurity. It truly feels like a repair manual for relationships when your brain works differently.
paid for itself
I run a one-person business (me) and one idea here paid for the book. Define done before you start. My purchasing process kept stalling because I never wrote down what finished was, so orders sat half-handled. That fix took an afternoon to set up. The quiz points you at one chapter instead of given you ten problems. The tools go into your environment rather than your willpower, which is why they hold. Short, practical, no filler.
A Practical Look at the Cost of Burnout
The ADHD Burnout Recovery System by Mark Chapters takes a detailed and refreshingly practical approach to a complicated subject. Viewing burnout in terms of cost rather than simply depleted energy was especially useful, since it helps explain why taking time off may not solve the underlying problem. I also appreciated the careful attention to distinguishing ADHD burnout from several similar conditions, along with clear guidance on when professional help is appropriate. Tools such as the Receipt and Thermostat make the concepts more concrete. The material can become fairly dense, particularly as the distinctions accumulate, but the precise writing and straightforward worksheets help. It is thoughtful, candid, and realistic about how long recovery takes.
Fresh start
I feel like this author actual understands, and cares about their readers. I can't remember the last time I felt this when reading a book. I was shocked by the pages instructing you to get your finances together, because this one of the big areas that have serious immediate repercussions in your life. Yes, it is mostly about getting your mind around a new way of understanding yourself, and is full of guidance and help. Get it!
Recognized myself instantly
I purchased The Autistic Burnout Recovery System to help my teens with post school collapse, but I started to recognize myself almost instantly. I used the validation module almost like a checklist. I appreciated that the book is broken into sections that address needs, whether they are immediate, maintenance, or building, so you can move back and forth through the advice and exercises. I will be referring back to this book often.
concrete and functional
This trio of books are the most concrete, actionable books on how to ‘be’ successfully as an autistic person. I found these a little late but all the things that worked…were in this trio of books, and reading gave me more tips. I started with the burnout book, and am halfway through the attachment one and just finished this one. Gloves. Music. And a list so I don’t forget anything. Read these. Put them into practice when you can, and you CAN.
clear, readable instructions and explanations
All of these manuals are well done and helpful. It is funny to me that I recognize the best tools and relationships from my life in the exercises and examples, but I had not been able to explain previously why something was helpful or like being stabbed in the eyeballs. Read it. Step away. Come back and introduce the tools as you need or can.
10/10
I love it from the beginning till the end because it helps me find that one thing that is causing the most traffic in my day, whether that's starting a boring task, losing track of hours, or freezing when faced with too many choices. This book was wrote for those who are trying to find the reason of those ADHD reactions that blocks you...
10/10, i love it
For a complex and little understood area
The ADHD Burnout Recovery System treats this complicated condition as a multi-faceted and complex problem to be understood. The system is not a quick fix guide, but attempts to get to the roots of the problem in a non-judgmental way. I found the workbook elements to be the most helpful as the guided questions really helped me to consider various issues, and then using the free printable copies consider them again once I had read more of the book.
The writing style is very sparse and probably suits people who love direct advice.
What we make
M.C. Publishing makes practical books for neurodivergent adults: ADHD, autism, or both. Every one is written by Mark Chapters for the reader, not at or about them.
They are short, sourced and made to be used. Most come with worksheets you can write in or print free, and every chapter ends with something to do, never a paragraph telling you to try harder.
Mark isn’t a doctor or a researcher. He’s the person in the middle: he reads the studies and the accounts people share in public, and tells you where they agree and where they don’t. Sources are listed at the back so you can check them, and the cases are composites, so nobody can be recognised.
We publish slowly. A book ships when it’s ready to hand to a friend who needs it, and not before.
The next volume is being written.