r/videos • u/Jtaimelafolie • May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

"I'm lazy, there must be something I can blame for being such a useless lazy piece of shit. I must have ADD or ADHD!!"

Edit: I have ADD and I was referencing people who make up excuses as solutions to their problems. I'm not saying people with ADD are lazy.

I alyways have to explain my humour to reddit... Do people not understand jokes anymore or do people just get offended by everything.

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u/fullforce098 May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

I've been diagnosed with ADHD by two seperate psychiatrists over the years, one of them Harvard trained, and this bullshit is infuriating.

"It's really hard for me to study sometimes cause I just get so bored, I'm totally ADHD, it's really a problem."

Shut the hell up, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. You can't focus on studying? I litterally can't count 100 things sometimes without my mind wondering off into some dumb bullshit. My memory is so shot I have to rely in Facebook to tell me my mother and sister's birthdays every year. I've lost jobs because I could keep on task long enough to get anything done even when I know full well I have to stay focused or I'll lose the job.

It's the most crippling thing that I can't tell people about because idiots like that have made ADHD appear to be an excuse. If I tell people I have ADHD, the response I'm always likely to get is "quit complaining and just focus" or something similar. It's something you get eye rolls for now.

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u/muddywater87 May 30 '17

I have ADHD, diagnosed when I was 4 years old in 1991. I haven't used it as an excuse since high school. Main reason, I've learned people don't care. I have a fellow who worked under me, only about 5 years younger then me. The first few weeks every time he made a mistake he blamed it on his ADD. After 2 weeks I had enough and told him flat out, i have ADHD and I don't use it as an excuse. If I fuck up, I deal with it and move on and try to learn from it.