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/GloriousGe0rge May 30 '17 edited May 30 '17

I've already had a massive post about this before, but when I was diagnosed with ADD I had no idea how much of my life it was affecting.

Until I saw this video about 3 years ago, it shook me to my core, everything he said lined up and made sense now. I used to go by the name BallisticGe0rge because of my short temper. I always thought that was just who I was, but this explained it.

Edit - Here's the entire series of his presentation, anyone dealing with ADHD should definitely watch it.

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u/j2781 May 30 '17

Dr. Barkley seems to have very rigid ideas about human development. For some reason I feel if you placed him in an alternate society and changed about 5 or 6 parameters, he'd be crushed into the ground and realize that everything that he thought that he knew was wrong.

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u/GloriousGe0rge May 30 '17

I think he's being rigid because he's trying to make it sink in for parents.

A lot of people treat ADHD, and developmental problems in general, as things that can be shrugged off. "Can't focus, ah just try harder" "Can't control you temper, then we'll punish you more"

People often fail to grasp the possibility of such fundamental differences in other human beings. Hell, people fail to grasp economic differences in other human beings, or cultural differences or physical differences, all of which we can measure with clear and concise data.

So to say "Hey, there's something wrong, deep inside the inner workings of your child, they do not, and will not process the world the same way as you" --it's just a hard for some people to grasp.

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u/j2781 May 30 '17

My comment wasn't fair. He's out dealing with real problems in the real world. And of course, the reality is everyone would experience dramatic culture shock if you changed 5 or 6 individually-targeted societal parameters, as no human being is well-adjusted to all possible societies.