Absolutely amazing TEDx talk on ADHD!!! Oh my goodness did I take notes and got teary at the end… It just hits home and I love the perspective he brings on how our ADHD-caused depression and anxiety issues come from the effect of people around us not dealing with us well, how they expect us to be like them when we are just different and operate in a different way.
Don’t punish us for being how we are, but nurture our abilities instead. I wish people would just understand that people are not all the same and that’s that. Everyone can be happy and live in a collaborative society if we are allowed to put our strengths to good use, however we can and however it fits us to make the most of it.
Normal people need us. Without us society stays stuck. It takes creative thinking and risk taking to try something different that will bring further benefits to everyone else.
But if we stay stuck in trying to be like everybody else then there is no progress really, because everyone is in the same thinking box and confined to the same rules and nobody takes risks because they don’t adapt well to change, they are set in their ways and comfortable.
I’ve said this before. Take a look at the people in history who have contributed the most to grand ideas and concepts and risky innovation and you will see they all share the same trait as we have.
ADHD sucks, but not really | Salif Mahamane | TEDxUSU – YouTube
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