ADHD from the inside | Toby Shaw | TEDxYouth@ISPrague
Vložit
- čas přidán 4. 05. 2017
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has become a familiar term to millions of parents, children, students and teachers in recent decades. But how much do we truly understand about the ways it affects an individual? What is it like to live with the condition? To go through a typical school day? Toby shares personal insights about a world most of us have only heard about.
Toby is a high school student with Czech and British roots. He has been intensely involved in rowing and acting for several years, and continues to pursue the dramatic arts both in and out of school. He discovered he has ADHD only two years before this talk.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
adhd is when you start with one task and ends up with 10 tasks open in front of u , and u cant help it
Ravi Verma Nailed it! At least with my experiences with adhd... Important assignment, now past due, what do you do? look into many partially related things till it it evolves to nothing related at all. I never ever, have less than 10 tabs open at a time on my laptop. at work, by the end of a 12 hr shift, I will at least have 5 open... Then, when you finally feel able to give that assignment your full attention, you continue to work on it and then your eyes (well mine) get very heavy and brain gets foggy, and feels like it went from adequate to high speed (80-90/95 miles per hour) to the speed of a turtle, in the matter of seconds. If your in a boat like mine, that assignment now has at least 50% docked due to being 5 days late, and all you have to show for those 5 days in a moderately decent rough draft; and you surely have used up all of your instructors understanding... Sorry, I just needed to rant for a minute.
Brittney Ricks there's nothing to sorry about , i can totally relate to it , yesterday i started searching for some algo for my math assignment , and after 10 mins i ended up with reading history of calculus , its like your brain is on overdrive , no want to stop on one thing , filling forms online is like most difficult task for me , it gets really difficult to stay on one page and focus on feeling right information.
You could not have said it any better, I just cannot do work any other way than that and now with the help of this video and your comment I have finally found out what that was, thank you very much my friend ✊️
ADHD: Make a list. Lose the list. Look for list. Lose phone while looking for list. Make new list from memory of first list. Add "find phone" to new list. Lose new list. Find phone. Remember that first list was in car. Check car. Find first list. Lock keys in car. Freak out about having to make phonecall to locksmith to get keys out of car. Realise that there was no need to fear phone call because phone was locked in car along with keys.
lero3412 damn this is too true and one of the reasons I avoid driving lol
Adhd is basically not knowing where to start or what to do next, let alone how to do it, then forgetting how to do or start it after someone already explained it to you, then you leave the activity mainly because you've already given up from all of the other past experiences, never returning until it's too late. Did I mention this repeats for every activity?
That’s exactly how it is for me
Hunter McStuffer and after ever interruption
I’d get a second opinion, it doesn’t sound like you have ADHD. ADHD affects working memory, so you should remember how to do things. Working memory is one of the issues so you’re having some ADHD symptoms, but everyone has ADHD symptoms every once in a while. ADHD is diagnosed when those symptoms are so frequent and exaggerated that it becomes debilitating.
Close, but not quite. Although many of those with ADD/ADHD may show different symptoms than each other, the basic overall symptom that they all have is executive function. Knowing what, or how, but can not do it, or at least, it's very difficult to do it. Some may indeed forget, others, I think for most, if not all if us, it's it about focus vs distractions. Distractions could be anything from the phone ringing or door knock, someone else walking in the room, to just our very own thoughts... of other things we need to do, and/or going over and over and over what and how to do the thing we need to do, it just gets to be so much thinking, sometimes we just can't (or it's difficult) to follow and push through to actually physically do the very thing we are thinking about... Imagine a tornado of spinning papers, thousands of papers, each one is a thought... You are in the center. You get a hold of a paper, a thought, ie- pay bills. Now you are about to pay a few bills, and you still have a thousand papers/thoughts whipping around you... all of sudden one of the papers caught your eye as it flashed before you,
'you have not returned your mothers phone call from last week'
So now your are going to pay your bills, then call mom.... then another paper/thought flashes...
You have not done your taxes, it's April 15th and the post office closes in 2 hours'...
and another thought, 'you were going to pick up medicine today, which your child needs'...
and you are struggling to still hold on your first paper, bills to pay... and another paper, one more thought, and another and another, all these different thoughts of what needs to be done, or what you want to do, the paper in hand eventually gets ripped out by the wind, but in your mind you still remember, and now you are also thinking about your mom, taxes, your child, and more....
Annis Hesling exactly! Perfect description of our brains 😫❤️
Did you know that on a iPhone the max number of tabs that can be open in sufari is 500; I learned this with my adhd.
you know you have ADHD when you're watching this video and suddenly your mind wanders off to few different matters and your eyes looking around the room and suddenly you're remember... oh yeah i'm currently watching this vid
I had my phone in my left hand and a tangle toy in my right. Which actually helped me listen to the whole thing through.
Hella Green Nice!!
OMG netijen. Same thing here.
I thought everyone does this, don't they?
Oh wow I just did that
All these ADHD symptoms are due to an impaired frontal cortex. A sluggish dopamine & norepinephrine system. It is genetic. This causes the adhd brain to act the way it does. Untreated it can easily lead to addiction and a range of negative symptoms if not treated properly. Toby was diagnosed young so I'm not surprised his 'cons' are quite mild. My 'cons' were unemployment and decades of addiction.
ADHD usually has a high genetic predisposition, but there are cases, though rare, where it has been caused by brain trauma.
We ALL respond differently, Jeremy. I'm sorry that was your experience. Hopefully you've now received the help you need to have a fulfilling and productive life.
So far, I'm only addicted to sewing and buying too much fabric... I wasn't diagnosed until I was 46, but I am called "profoundly ADHD" and mostly, I just embarrass my family.
Me too.
Same here, brother. I was diagnosed at 33, by a very observant counselor who was seeing me on a "crisis" appointment because I had it. I was wondering if I needed to go to the hospital...again...to protect myself against myself. I was diagnosed time and time again with depression and anxiety. always on lots of medication with little results. After a year of taking medication, I am halfway through my associate degree in Accounting, and moving out of my moms home (at 35!). There is hope...I almost lost hope and I am so grateful I was given the chance to live my best life.
Lindsay S Love to you, Lindsey. 32 years old waiting to be diagnosed and story gives me hope 💛
How many of you read the comments, while you listen, and continue to fight the urge to wander to something else even if a part of you wants to finish? 😎
Me
Guilty 🤣
You must be watching me.
Busted
you are a wizard 🤯
I started focusing how on almost every sentence he said started with “Now”
I can’t focus on anything else
I HATE IT! Lol. No more NOW
When I read is comment It got harder for me to ynderstand what he says 😂
Thanks a lot XD
Hes nervous, leave him alone lol
I often get this feeling that when we talk about ADHD, it gets put off as something that's easy to live with, something that you just need to figure out and when you do it is this amazing gift that makes you so amazingly creative and succesfull, while when they talk about other mental illnesses that really have a lot in common with ADHD, such as bipolar disorder and autism, it does get treated as a rough thing. It frustrates me. For me, ADHD is indeed something that sits deeply in my personality, but it's definetly not something that helps me in life. It frustrates me, that just because there are many people who have it, ADHD gets treated as something that you should not see as an illness. I have ADHD and for me, it IS a terrible mental illness that has ruined my life more than a couple of times, and I'm just 19 years old! I know that without ADHD I would be able to get a degree, to do what I want to do in life. I have all these amazing original ideas that most ADHD people have but because of my ADHD I can't finish anything, I can't put these thoughts into real work! And it's terrible!
I was treated for ADHD. I had a psychologist and half the time I had no idea wtf I was doing there.... and my medication did more harm than good. At some point my psychiatrist told me he had nothing else that he could do for me.
So no, it's not easy for me. I dropped out of university because of my ADHD. My relationship of 2 years ended because of my ADHD. I left the house because of all the fights I had with my parents about my ADHD. It frustrates me so much, that this is treated as something common and easy to handle, while for me it's an every day battle against myself!
I feel for you. Untreated ADHD can be terrible to live with and you may be one of the few adhd-ers who don't benefit from treatments. But it's more likely that your psychologist / psychiatrist don't know squat about what you need. Dump them and find a better specialist, browse the many add online resources for help. Like you, I also have brilliant ideas every day that never become reality, but at least I don't hate myself for that any more like I used to. That counts for something, actually, for a lot, so keep exploring treatment options and don't give up! You're part of our tribe and we need you!
A good resource is youtube channel calles how to adhd. ADHD can rang from mild to very severe. You right it is very frustrating especially when most information is child focused. I was diagnosed at 19 just started medication last year aylt 21 yrs old. One of the things i find the hardest is explaining what its like neurotypical people. I hope you find some goood stratagies and tools to help ypu. I know it can feel lile your trying to nail jello to wall but as you get old you do start to get know how you work. Your not allone fellow ADHD brain.
If I'm doing quite well at school it's thanks to my medications, and without them I'd be in a terrible situation, so I feel really really bad for you.. Even if, actually, medications help me only with school, so I share your same social problems
This is weirdly similar to my experience, broke up with my gf of two years and dropped out of university twice racking up around £20,000 of debt
I was diagnosed at 4 years old and I have severe ADHD and I feel for everything you just said.
I am so happy that he mentioned the quiet type, ADD, that gets called lazy. Just to put it out there if parents are watching this for their kids; this calm quiet daydreaming maybe easy to tears type is common in girls but not exclusively of course. I get called lazy and here is why. On the outside I am sitting around doing nothing, but in my brain there is a massive universe or factory trying to figure things out, process, problem solve, eager thirst for learning interesting things, philosophy about life and the world (if clouds weigh so many thousands of tons then why can it fly is an example of something I was pondering once, then I looked it up and learned it.) And lots of other things. Sometimes I am doing nothing to try to unstress the stress and anxiety from the overload of information, and sometimes I do nothing because of my physical inability to make decisions easily or quickly so I can't decide what to do or which order, or I want to go do something really bad but can't get started so I get anxiety about never getting my body to move. There have been many times where I have cried in thirst because I couldn't get my body to get up and get water; it can be that extreme. I'm not lazy, I'm occupied.
Now, that being said, in return from all the thinking, processing and learning from looking up random stuff I am now known as "the human dictionary" and my brain and senses are my strength. So if you are here reading this for your child my hottest tip is that visual learning is commonly easier than verbal. Show what you mean, draw it, find pictures or videos explaining. Give breaks in the homework, our attention can be amazing but only in short bursts and how short varies. Have the child answer questions while jumping on one leg if the child struggles to stand still and make it a game. If you can make it interesting enough and really cool did you know's then it is more likely to stick the first time. Likely, not guaranteed. And you might know a habit of maybe watching the same movie a million times, don't sigh or complain, the guilt from rolling eyes is awful when you are a child.
Ambi Cahira you literally described my average day! I live in a state of perpetual dehydration due a mixture of that and "oh I'll do it in a sec" forgetfulness lol. I spent a lot of years thinking I was just lazy and useless because I couldn't manage what other people seemed fine with
This !! "this calm quiet daydreaming maybe easy to tears type is common in girls but not exclusively of course. I get called lazy and here is why. On the outside I am sitting around doing nothing, but in my brain there is a massive universe or factory trying to figure things out, process, problem solve, eager thirst for learning interesting things, philosophy about life and the world (if clouds weigh so many thousands of tons then why can it fly is an example of something I was pondering once, then I looked it up and learned it.) And lots of other things. Sometimes I am doing nothing to try to un-stress the stress and anxiety from the overload of information, and sometimes I do nothing because of my physical inability to make decisions easily or quickly so I can't decide what to do or which order, or I want to go do something really bad but can't get started so I get anxiety about never getting my body to move."
This! I am a human dictionary and information hoarder.
@@shortiebabe921I recommend having a glass or bottle on hand all the time, when you remember your thirsty have a mouthful. Its how I escape thirsty headaches.
It's a little embarrassing thinking I'm over my ADHD cause I'm so used to the symptoms that I forget, then I see something like this and go "ah, I do that too. Guess its still there afterall"
Ambi Cahira Thank you for finding the words to describe my every day life! I struggle organizing my thoughts and my mind works on a 0 or 100 kind of switch, like over flow of information all at once or blank and getting stuck with a 15 year writers block. You have given me the words that I knew I felt and believed about myself, I am not lazy I am just preoccupied! Getting access to information in my brain has been my life long struggle and I can’t thank you enough for articulating how life with add really is.
I hyper focused on this, this made me feel like I’m not the only one
Lol I’m on like my 10th adhd video in a row. I know the feeling
Same!
Same, I haven't been diagnosed yet but I find so much comfort watching these
The only kind of video I can focus on and watch for a long time😂
It's more like when you try to file the sound of the bus, you accidentally put it in a shredder because suddenly your brain is paying attention to the bright yellow on the taxi right next to you. It's important to note the lack of short term memory that people with ADHD constantly struggle with.
Kevin Peralta already forgot what this talk is about
Yeah sometimes my brain would think ,,omg I hate the noise the buses do everytime they pass beside me‘‘ and there other times I think ,,....since when are there buses here?!...‘‘
What talk? :-/
I am Sooo bad at short term memory and bave ADHD
i've had full conversations with people and 5 minutes later i won't remember it at all and it sucks
I have severe ADHD. If I drive, I will be focused on driving along with a hundred thoughts that I forget to take the turn towards my home.. I drive straight past my house which I have lived for all my life. I always miss the stop in metro and go forth and back. And theses are just one of the things I go through all My life. But there is one more side to the coin. I was always first in my class and passed B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering with distintion from a very reputed university even though I don't right notes. I don't even know the portion of my exam till the last night, but manage to completely study a subject in one night from other people's notes. On the night before my exam, my hyper concentration becomes a blessing. But I can never listen in the class or if I listen, then I cannot complete my notes..
My handwriting varies from page to page and is never consistent.
I have two patents for my designs of a robot and an aerator.
I can only listen to one person at a time and cannot consentrate on a group of people.
Since my mind is engaged in thaughts, I will hear people asking me things, which I store in to my mind and will answer them after my thought process ends, which result in me giving an answer after few minutes..
I forget all things which is relevant for day to day life like my key, wallet, area where car is parked, place where my shoe was left.. Etc but retains all the information which I have interest on such as world affairs, history, science etc...
There was great value in this BUT one thing I want to correct is that for us low key over organized who prefer to stay home it is a coping mechanism. We are NOT lazy. My type just uses being lower key to manage stimulus. Please never call an ADD/ADHD person lazy for how they do something differently. Some struggle to put themselves out there and some struggle to not be as outspoken.
Just ..... different types of ADHD thats all and fighting daily for balance. 👍😇
You did a very good job explaining this disorder Son. I was diagnosed very late in life, so I have the baggage of past hurts and now discrimination of acknowledging, publicly, I have ADD. Always a work in progress.
Stay strong
Everyone has regrets through life. The fact that you have ADHD just means you probably dwell on them more and feel frustrated things may have been different. 'Dont cry over spilt milk' and 'see the silver lining' spring to mind. It's good that you have a better understanding of your own phycology now and yes of course we all live and learn.. but you can't change the past and you don't need to. Just accept that things have happened and we can only improve our present and future.
A good clear explanation for those who don’t understand. I have described it as trying to grasp thoughts out of a cyclone of words, sights and sounds. Or like trying to concentrate in a room of 1000 people talking loudly.. one thing I know for sure, we do love a metaphor 👍🏻😁
How ironic... within the first 38 seconds, I had already opened up a game of Solitaire on my computer as he said, "it is a common misconception that those with ADHD can't concentrate at one thing at one time..." Whoops.
My friends say I act like a drunk toddler when I don't take my ADHD pill. To be quite honest, I agree with them.
i become a boring robot
I can’t just sit in my room and learn something. I can’t remember it after a few seconds. I can’t concentrate. I’m always somewhere else with my thoughts. I’m loud and hyper at work. Its just so hard to do something were I have to be concentratet.
I'm watching this instead of doing the chores I'm supposed to do
I cant even pay attention to this guy talking about adhd
Actually he’s kind of boring normally I can pay attention to force myself but this guy I really go off with
Check out vids featuring Dr. Russell Barkley, he gets to it in 15 seconds in some cases.
Speed it up to 1.25 at least and listen while you do something else like clean your room.
I was expecting the comment section to be people screaming ADHD is fake. Even Sir Ken Robbinson in his famous Ted Talk - Do schools kill creativity?- he made a joke insinuating ADHD is not a disorder and completely a made-up disease. I wish I could invite them to live like me for one day and they will understanding what an invisible disability it is.
Seriously! If I could trade brains with about any of the people around me I would. The memory/attention aspect of ADD alone is like instead of losing your train of thought, you have to piece together a train in a specific order from a rail yard of derailed cars, many of which are to other engineer’s trains.
Feeling emotions more strongly also really doesn’t help when you have a mind that’s incessantly ruminating over things and find yourself thinking over the problems of the world and the greed and hypocrisy of mankind in disgust most of your days.
Lots of people that havent got adhd havent got a clue because they only know what its like to be them.
I think most the people who watch these are atleast comment have adhd themselves and are trying to look at others who have it too
Well done for explaining it so well. I was diagnosed at 48 I am now 53. I work with ADHD students and it's the only job I have been able to do without struggling to keep it. I also have 3 children two of which have ADHD.
Haven't finished the video yet but already had me crying at 'imagine the confusion'. I just found out about having ADHD within the last month or so; it's been like... like seeing the other side of a coin. one side is heavily scratched, you can't make out what it looks like at all. then the other side is shiny and makes sense. It's the same coin, just a different side of the same thing.
Sometimes I feel I need to do twice more work to have half enough results. Medication helps me to have the determination to not give up, however, I still have to work 4 times more to have enough results, it's exhausting and I am embarrassed all the time to share how hard I worked to do something that other people can without killing themselves. Anyway, there is no other option than just trying more times, it's suks.
One nurse I knew had a brain shaped stress ball and it was the best! It was squishy, and colourful, and it had the ridges to feel. I wish I had one of those in exams.
I just googled “brain shaped stress ball” and there were tons of results of them for sale :)
Hannibal lector much lol jk
Toby hasn’t had it easy over the last few years and we are so proud as his parents for sharing his experience. We really hope that people take the time to understand others with similar diagnoses because honestly it isn’t easy to live with. It’s not about us but about those who live with this on a daily basis. There is a lot of judgment and misunderstanding and truly we should be accepting of all!!
As ADHD I think I have a vivid visual understanding of things. I am not good at reading. But I developed skills overtime for reading. Again, I am not able to prioritize the information. My mind blanks when I try to recall. Just one reminder from someone and it clicks. Only the image that I created in my head while reading is recallable.
I actually started crying because I can reflect myself in him. I finally can relate to this like fully
I don't know if it is just me but whenever someone comes up to me and asks if I have adhd and I tell them I do and its diagnosed I get really upset when they casually say "Oh yea I probably have adhd as well, I am always tapping my foot so I def have it" or something of the sort. These people don't understand how hard it is for me to socialize and make friends and to focus and keep my headspace. It makes very simple pieces of life extremely hard and frustrating for me. This video is very informative and I am glad someone is finally education people on what adhd actually is.
Sometimes when there is a lot of different sounds I sometimes don't understand anything or remember any of it. I just blank out everything because my brain throws away a lot more than it should. I can't deal with ticking clocks very well. I twirl my hair a lot (used to bite my nails until they bled). I can't sleep without earplugs, a fan, and a cloth against my eyes. I used to take medication which made me almost normal but now I can't afford it. Now the thought of finishing a book is a mere memory.
It's a shame that people can't afford the health care they need :(
Where do you live?
My god, HATE ticking clocks ! Yet I love playing my drum kit 👍🏻🤣
Toby you explained it perfectly. This is how I feel and live with ADHD
Thank you ❤️ there needs to be more said about mental health and getting care sooner in life then later
Thank you so much for being so public and open about the unique and special person that God made you to be. Our son, the youngest of four of my husbands children, he’s in the process of being diagnosed. I’ve known for some time that something was different, special and amazing about him. I also knew and now know that the way that he is in the things that drive us crazy and others around him are not his fault. I am so thankful for you and other people who have put this information out there to help parents like myself to be a better parent to give my son the best chance of success in life. I wish you the best that life can offer And again I am truly grateful for your message.
Shite I'm a 4 and now after surviving Las Vegas massacre have anxiety and ptsd which has thrown my city corner into hyper confusion without a way out which makes for paralysis with a head full! Great speech. Fantastic analogies
Thank you for this talk. This is beautiful.
The way you described adhd is the best way to describe how I interpret the world. I am also type 4. Thanks for this talk
In my experience being ADHD doesnt make me good at spotting small details and small changes in fact I am bad at doing that
Its going to Vary, I Am similar to this kid, except I am more the quite, calm reserved type. But my mind is always wandering, dreaming, thinking...
Same
I had to rewind the part about the file cabinet about 6 times but when he started explain the 4 types... then it hit me. Kids got chops 💪
I have ADHD, Dyslexia, General anxiety disorder, and panic attack disorder.
Thank you for the important information about this disorder.
OMG, the way he began his talk... my childhood, my life :( I havent been diagnosed yet, but i am sure i have ADHD ... i am speechless, but i feel there is hope for me too :)
Thank you for this talk!
I see myself in him in some ways and in other ways not, but, regardless, am inspired to look more into it.
Very well done. I appreciate you sharing.
Excellent description of the personal internal experience of Attention Deficit.
This was such a beautiful speech. I was just recently diagnosed at 39.
missheidy i was diagnosed two days ago. 38 years old. So strange to have gone through this and diagnosed so late. It made me reflect on everything I’ve struggled with since I was young up until now.
Man his diagnosis got him support beyond putting you in a separate room for tests with longer times? A little jealous not gonna lie.
I wasnt even really medicated as a kid because my mom feared heart issues from stimulants because i was only 5 and when using adderall i was kinda "zombified" as it were.
Wish i could have had fidgets and focus tools. At least i self taught myself to cope but never self taught and studying or work ethic other than doing what i can to please the other around me.
All I wanted in school was to draw or listen to music. School was torture! You've nailed it here!
4th type! *Raises hand*
Why did this make me cry?
Great talk!! I had ADHD since i was a kid and it effected my life horribly, and i'm 29 right now, but i was diagnosed with ADHD a while ago, and now i'm starting with a medication of Concerta soon, i'm very interested on how this could change me and my life!
Please tell me things got better
thank you for this
I definitely have a hyperactive brain and have trouble concentrating on things to that are happening too slowly. I often listen to videos in 1.5 speed. Its hard to get my brain to shut up and while I can focus on things I often have something else going on in my brain at the same time as the task in hand.
This is me! I watch CZcams on 2x because the world is just too slow for my brain. People find it weird and inaudible.
@@teeldinho471 I imagine it is weird to some, but for me with slow speakers even x2 is too slow. For some reason I just process the information better when it comes at me faster.
This came up in my suggestion and now I'm curious to learn about it 😅
This is my life..l understand..you have to find the system that works for you.
I’m the third type and I take medication even tho i feel hyper focused I also become very quiet and anti social as to if I’m off meds I am very talkative and all over the place medication helps with school but sometimes can make you feel like a zombie.
I'm going for a test today and I'm collecting info about ADHD. The more I think about the more I realize that I showed these signs.
If I really do have it, I wonder if things could've been different. If I could have better relationships, maybe I could've been in college...
Life with ADHD sucks!!!!! I have it myself and school and stuff sucks for me. I can totaly relate to this video 95%
Same
Thank you Toby
At 3.45 min when the classroom scenario came up raised that many nightmares that I turned off and came back an hour latter when I calmed down
Powerful✨☀️✨🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃 Thank You!
I love his voice
I have adhd but for me stuff like stress balls don’t work for me since I get very focused on the object, rather than my work. Confuses me a lot.
This is way to relatable
Very well done
Had to listen to the 4 types of ADHD about 6 times.
I so get tired of losing and misplacing things. I wear reading glasses so I went and bought 10 pairs and placed them in places around the house in case I "lost" the ones I just had. Then yesterday they were all gone. I had only one solution to
stop the gut-wrenching emotional pain and non stop crying. I am still alive. But I took a sedative to knock myself out. And another when that wore off. Today is better and I found 2 pairs out of 10 pairs of eyeglasses.
listening to this with one ear bud while playing music for extra auditory input to help me not skip every video at the 2 min mark. all that just to keep me still while gaming .
i have come up with the metaphor of: imagine a box, and that box is lined with trampolines. and then you throw a bouncy ball in it. whichever trampoline that bouncy ball hits at any moment, is what i am focused on. and yes, some of those trampolines have tar or honey on them, allowing me to grasp a thought for longer. but thats how fast our mind is moving.
I want to say that the OCD is actually hyper focus when the mind is bored.
I have OCD and it is commonly comorbid with things like ADHD especially if the ADHD was left untreated.
I was diagnosed OCD at 18 and ADHD at 25, and while I think the way he lumped it as a part of adhd is wrong, its not an uncommon comorbidity.
Its not hyper focus for me. I do things in 16s and constantly have to double check taps are off by twisting them off even though the water isnt running (I have broken 2 faucets before I found a way too do it 'lightly' but also satisfy the compulsion)
I can see your point, and I agree with how he stated it that it didnt seem 100% correct.
I just wanted to share my experience and what I have learned about ADHD and comorbidities since my diagnoses for future comment readers
He is a great presenter!
Great talk!!
I JUST GOT DISTRACTED FOR LIKE HALF OFTHIS OMG
I need that trouser buzzer!
The way he described ADHD is a similar way to how I heard autism described. With all the noise and things going around, distracting and becoming overwhelming. Of course, it’s just more intense with autism. At least, depending on where on the spectrum you are at.
You are special unique genius person that born to change the world by innovation and creativity be proud yiu share the same thing with the great genius people in the history .
Good talk well done mate
I wish everybody knew this information
This was a very good video
i've been going through several video's to do with adhd and in the middle of every video or so i'd go off and listen to music and then i'd listen to one song for about a minute, go to the next song. that would go on for a while and then i'd eventually get tired and then go back to the videos. then i'd pause it and pretend i was one of the speakers while pacing back and forth and then go back to the video and the cycle repeats.
Anybody counting how many times he says “Now”?
This makes sense. I once compared ADHD to your brain flicking tv stations every 2.5 seconds. I've found that I can take some vitamins and manage mine, while having the benefits of adhd. A big one is magnesium, and I also take a general multivitamin. For those who also have ocd type symptoms, vitamin d is a common player it seems in that (from the research I've done to give my brains a rest from focusing on boring things)
I've never been diagnosed with ADHD but I think I likely have it.
But I'm also an ENTP personality type which could also be the reason.
Watching this video I got my second phone out to search for 4G WiFi routers and had to rewind the video to hear what I missed.
I'm likely the daydreaming, lazy one.
But then I do have a calendar for tasks that reminds me and I do get most done.
Say what you will about it but being in Special ED here in the states really made me embarrassed but it did help me a ton especially since i refuse any pills
well said！
Who else had to rewind 35 times because you start thinking of something else every 30 seconds.
I'm writing a project (EPQ) about what ADHD students can teach their neurotypical peers... Any ideas or examples? I'm not an ADHDer myself, but it's still hard to gather my thoughts.
I had to repeat the first 2 minutes of the video like 4 times because of my adhd
Omg that’s me, I’m in 9th grade watching this but I already knew I had it
I'm a ADHDer, my brain was wired differently, that's why my Attention Development History Differed(ADHD) from others. ADHDers are risktakers, we're driven, hyperactive and creative.
No Worries Hanging in There and Merry Christmas
Watching this i also watched netflix, and surfed instagram on my phone. I have ADHD.
It bugs me a low when people automatically use the phrase "suffers from". HAVING a condition does not necessarily mean you "suffer" from it, even if it brings hardships or challenges which might make you feel bad. Suffering is entirely subjective and only the individual can say if they feel suffering in any given moment.
Sorcha O'Reilly agreed. maybe he subjectively feels like he is suffering from having ADHD.
If you parts of your life aren't suffering due to ADHD, you should probably get re-evaluated for it.
This is so me
Was the CZcamsr he was talking about Ryan Higa? Because damn same
As someone with ADHD I can't totally relate to the video. I never had problems with noises and lights for example.
I had a two diagnoses and had the same thing told to me. "You have mild ADHD, you're well functioning. You won't be needing any treatment".
And maybe it's right. But I want to be sure. Is there anyone who is kind of coping with it?
I have ADD and I do get very overwhelmed by sound. That is a big reason I need my medication for.
So I‘m Not sure if that answers your question, but maybe if you don‘t have those issues your chances to cope without meds are better. But if you think you need them still, you should Talk to your doctor again. Just know, those meds aren‘t fun, If you can handle it without them, you can consider yourself lucky
I want to comment and explain my symptoms but I think of it and I jus get exhausted by jus imagining how long that paragraph/s will be.
ADHD is when you're holding a drawing exam paper and you realise you have no drafter to work with.
Whats a drafter
Best thing happened to me is ADHD superpower just be Entrepreneur then your greatness will flourish.
Sounds like when i try hearing aids it magnifies everything and everything becomes overwhelming... i dont know where to concentrate
Fluorescent lights are the absolute worst especially with those white brick prison like walls