The discussion of Ted's ADHD diagnosis leading to like a 20 minute segment discussing the minor detail of him having mozz sticks was the most ADHD thing I've ever seen. I related so hard.

Hearing about the boys being taken under a teacher's wing literally made me cry because as a kid with ADHD I wanted to be the teachers pet so bad and I tried so hard to be their friend but literally every single one would try their hardest to pretend I didn't exist because they thought I needed to stop seeking attention

jarvis speaks so slowly sometimes that it leads to some funny sound bites.

“i eat… people…”

the adhd meds to mozzarella sticks convo is so quintisentally a-conversation-with-adhders its truly beautiful

As a future pharmacist I love hearing people talk about their drugs because I can hear an actual patient’s unbiased experience. I’m grateful the boys are this comfortable with their audience❤️

As a teacher, it’s really refreshing to hear people speak positively of teachers. We’ve been getting a lot of shit lately. Thanks boyz ❤️❤️

The medication stuff Ted was talking about hit SO hard for me, with his mom asking “did you take your medication” when there was a disagreement is something I faced with my family for FAR too long. It’s not usually meant to be hurtful or anything, but it feels incredibly dismissive when my parents responded to me having negative feelings and reaching out for help with “did you take your meds today”. It’s usually coming from a place of care, but at the end of it all, whether or not I’ve taken my meds isn’t the concern. My reactions are my reactions, I’m feeling bad and am looking for comfort in the moment. No amount of alarms that remind me to take my Zoloft each day is going to change that.

The whole "have you taken your medicine?" thing is a pretty close equivalent to "is it that time of the month?"

Funny story about a generic brand. I take Sertraline (the generic brand for Zoloft) for anxiety and a few years ago it suddenly started having a sweet vanilla flavor to it. At first I thought I was imagining it, but after one anxious month, I started wondering if they had, for some strange reason, given me sugar pills as a placebo medicine for my anxiety. Finally I googled about it and found a reddit thread discussing what had happened. Apparently, they added a vanilla coating to the pill without saying anything. It was really gratifying reading all of the comments of the post because everyone was having the same anxiety trip over the last few months. I still can't believe they changed the flavor of an anxiety medication without saying a word. It feels like a prank.

Toby being short for Tobuscus literally made me tip over on my bed laughing so hard, oh my god

I literally gasp with joy every time Sad Boyz posts

It almost sounds like the school Ted went to when growing up, was based on Scandinavian elementary schools. Calling teachers by their first name and having "sloyd" (doing woodwork etc) as a subject is super common here (at least where I'm from)

Hearing Ted talk about his elementary school, knowing I went to the same one is so interesting. I’m from the same town as Ted, and the academics are very intense there. But the elementary school we both went to was the reason I was able to diagnosed with ADHD SO young as a girl. I was diagnosed at age 7, and barely had any hyperactivity. A teacher at the elementary school caught it and got consent from my parents to record my behavior in order to get a diagnosis. She still asks about me when she sees my mom in the grocery store.The early intervention and inclusion of the special ed students within our classes is why I was able to succeed and accept that I am disabled. Being in occupational therapy with the kid who had cerebral palsy allowed me to understand others and myself from a young age, and i’m forever grateful for that experience. The school may have been rather crunchy, hippie and weird, but it quite obviously produces successful, creative people. Very curious if the teacher who had ted lead transitions is the same one who got me diagnosed. I wouldn’t be surprised.

I never considered that you guys don't do slöjd in school, it was the best! Slöjd is "handicraft" i guess, and everyone alternates between sewing class and woodworking class. / Swede

as a burnt out former GT student (k-10th grade) who was only recently diagnosed w ADHD it hurts so bad that my parents refused to provide me any help throughout school bc i could've done so much better than i did and all they did was blame me :/ but hearing other ppl talk about their experiences is so comforting and you guys could never imagine how much ur openness and candor abt mental health means to me

This podcast helps me understand myself and my newly discovered ADHD so much better

also re: being gifted it's sort of weird cause i went to a school that sounded very much like ted's but we called anyone with any sort of neurodivergence or learning disability "gifted" in addition to kids who had a higher reading or math level or w/e. as a then undiagnosed kid w combined adhd they actually rejected me from joining that class 😅 but the whole school was super crunchy and made everyone take a weekly creative activity every year.

idk if y’all have any plans to make a part 2 to this tier list but if yall did here are some suggestions: jim (nickname for james), matt, noah, ben/benjamin, don, john, scott, mark

Jordan sits like we're the last ones awake at the sleepover and we're sharing our deepest, darkest secrets

the microwave talk was so real... i just learned when and why to use the different power levels and it changed the leftovers game