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I spent a day with people w/ ADHD

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I spent a day with people with ADHD to learn the truth about this highly misunderstood disorder (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
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🧨HUGE thank you to:
▸ JESSICA - howtoadhd & https://howtoadhd.com
▸ BEX - Instagram: bex_tk & https://impactparents.com
▸ JOSEPH - @jbaverage & Twitch: jbaverage

❗️ADHD RESOURCES
▸ https://chadd.org - Dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by ADHD.
▸ https://cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/index.html - Data and resources on ADHD.

🗯MORE I SPENT A DAY WITH…
▸ SCHIZOPHRENIA - I spent a day with people w/ SCHIZOPHRENIA
▸ BORDERLINE PERSONALITY (BPD) - I spent a day with BORDERLINE PERSONALITIE...
▸ TOURETTE SYNDROME - I spent a day with people w/ TOURETTE SYND...

🎥Crew
▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla
▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese
▸ Production Coordinator, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber
▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Zach Zeidman
▸ Editor - Mike Criscimagna AKA Mork Crispy
▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba
▸ Post PA / Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth

🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo
🖼Portrait painted by: Rhianna Robles - Instagram: zerogattsu

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0:00 - INTRO
1:48 - SYMPTOMS
3:32 - EXPERIENCES
11:26 - DIAGNOSIS
15:34 - LIFE BEYOND

20 Comments

@SmoshAlike Creator 5 years ago Pinned

come back next week for a truly moving episode, *I spent a day with people w/ TERMINAL ILLNESSES*.
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@namiraofthehunt2606 5 years ago

What I hate about having ADHD is listening to people say "oh, I'm sooo ADHD" when they do something flighty or absent-mindedly.

@flowerluna_aaa 5 years ago (edited)

What people think ADHD is like: “man... my adhd is so bad... oh! A squirrel!”
What it’s actually like: ive read this page 5 times and I still haven’t grasped the concept

@gabby1097 5 years ago

I always felt overlooked as a girl with adhd because the more standardized “traits” or whatever you want to call it of adhd are based off men with adhd and it differs between genders

@ferrety1 2 years ago

People don’t seem to understand how severe adhd can get. For some severe cases, telling someone with adhd to just focus or stay still is like telling a a paralyzed person to just walk or sit up straight. It just doesn’t work.

@officaldaelight 5 years ago (edited)

"either people with adhd need to stop being so relatable or i need to go to the doctor"

update: i am trying to find a doctor to diagnose me but it's kinda hard when your country doesn't really value mental disorders like this 😭 if anyone has resources they'd like to share, please let me know!

@spencerolba7812 5 years ago

"Your grades are good but you could definitely do better if you'd put more effort into it." This fucked me up as a child and led me to believe my entire life that my grades were never good enough and that I was never doing enough

@omegaPSI2006 5 years ago

"I was no longer the person with potential, I was the person that didn't reach it"

That one legit hurt.

@YaGirlElunia 3 years ago (edited)

I have inattentive ADHD and always wondered why I’m always so forgetful, clumsy, spacey, disorganized and couldn’t concentrate/focus on anything that didn’t interest me and daydreaming all the time. I thought I was just lazy, dumb or something is wrong with me but I was diagnosed not long ago and started taking medication for it. No one thought I had it cause I was a quiet and well behaved girl in class and people often times think ADHD is that little hyperactive little boy that can’t keep still in a classroom.

@saml4004 5 years ago (edited)

“Everything else was just me failing as a person, failing as a proper human being”...... “it was really hard for me when I realized I was no longer the person who had so much potential. I was the person who hadn’t reached it”.... ouch...that hits deep in the soul right this second.....

@kevinsecretplace4546 5 years ago

Hearing the phrase "if you just tried harder" or "if you just apply yourself" automatically causes my eyes to tear up no matter what. I cannot say how much I hate that phrase.

@darkymakenzy 5 years ago (edited)

“I wish someone taught me about the world of ADHD”
That hit too close to home...

@amandakattouf9678 3 years ago

It’s the analysis paralysis with ADHD that keeps me procrastinating, if I can’t do it perfectly I don’t want to do

@kylaxox6777 5 years ago

sad this doesn’t have more views bc ADHD is actually really misunderstood, people just think you’re hyperactive, can’t pay attention & impulsive, they don’t realize everything else that comes with that & all the other things ADHD changes about you

@pennyw2226 5 years ago

I have adhd and being “overwhelmed by thoughts and unable to function in the way modern society sees as normal” is A MOOD

@jeremywaygay 5 years ago

i really loved how he got one guy, one girl, AND one nb person. they tend to seem invisible when ppl talk abt adhd.

@WhiteDemonata 2 years ago

Masking is the single most exhausting part of my spectrum. Like playing a character for hours and hours a day, someone you aren't even close to being.

@vanessafaith32 5 years ago

i would recommend "spending a day with people with social anxiety disorder" because its often shrugged off as "everybody gets anxious sometimes in public" or "everyone is insecure" when its so much more than that.

@kerry9822 5 years ago

having ADHD and anxiety makes it sooooo hard to talk to people, even significant others

@savannahj6660 5 years ago

“A lot of people with ADHD don’t think they have it, and they just think they’re dumb, lazy, or aren’t trying hard enough.” Iv’e always felt this. Finally got diagnosed last week. 🙌🏻