"write your name please" "garnt" "you have dyslexia grant"

@richarddominic5770

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment right here.

@Athkore

2 жыл бұрын

I had to read this comment twice cause it looked completely normal to me. Dyslexia is the joke that keeps on giving.

@lavenderaqua2655

2 жыл бұрын

@@Athkore Indeed

@ChickenSando

Жыл бұрын

They garnted him a diagnosis.

The fact Conner’s issue ONLY manifested learning English should have tipped them off it wasn’t Dyslexia. Actual Dyslexia persists across all languages and forms of media.

@jeanettemullins

2 жыл бұрын

My daughter has dyspraxia and has issues with some parts of English but finds spelling in many other languages so much easier. There's a bit of an overlap in symptoms and it would be interesting to know how many people who have been told they have dyslexia have other things going on. My brother was endlessly tested for dyslexia throughout school because they hear couldn't figure him out. He got diagnosed with dyspraxia as an adult.

@Gladissims

2 жыл бұрын

It does, but some people with dyslexia still find certain languages easier to deal with than others. I know my sister had an easier time writing and reading English than she did Swedish (her native tongue). She still made a lot of mistakes, and definitely still struggled. But slightly less so than with Swedish.

@rosamund_

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, but like many people in this comment thread I also have dyslexia. I had huge trouble learning English and french, but Spanish, Latin and Greek are all languages which I found much easier to learn because of their phonetic nature and more logical grammar and syntax. I’m actually going to uni to study Latin and Ancient Greek. So yeah it is an issue for many people but it doesn’t apply to all languages or all people…

@Jhud69

2 жыл бұрын

It does but in my experience some languages make it less prevalent. Like it didn't bother me that much when learning Japanese because weirdly enjough syllabaries are easier for me to read and grasp than alphabets. It persists in all other languages I know though. I think actually most dyslexic people find Japanese quite easy to grasp for some reason which is interesting.

@ANationalguy

2 жыл бұрын

Well when you have dyslexia you learn differently. Different languages can be much more easier for you to personally understand due to the separate language rules.

The clearest sign I saw ADHD in Garnt is that he literally watched an entire episode of Pokemon in his head scene by scene

@corduroycrook

2 жыл бұрын

Right 😂

@Saphirakii

2 жыл бұрын

can you explain how this is a sign of ADHD exactly?

@JoNarDLoLz

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that I do the same thing with Spongebob episodes scares me. I was also very 'proud' because I eventually was able to entertain myself watching Spongebob episodes in my head during boring school periods.

@TheChannel110

2 жыл бұрын

Huh is that really a sign of hdhd, I remember most shows like that

@lizasplaylist

2 жыл бұрын

@@Saphirakii Maybe hyperfixation with your favorite things? Idk i have adhd lol

As someone who is both ADHD and dyslexic, this was the funniest conversation I have seen about the topic. I once had a teacher in highschool that refused to believe I was dyslexic and I was faking all of my government documents (called a 504 in the US idk about other places). So at the end of the year I documented all the times she refused to have my accommodations and got her fired from the school, and potentially got her teaching license revoked. It's state law to follow it.

@RexZShadow

2 жыл бұрын

Like understandable if there no documents but like how stupid do you have to be. The sad part is in the US it's actually so hard to get a teacher fired for being a bad teacher unless it's something like this where they clearly broke the rules. But good job on getting rid of at least one shit teacher.

@degenerateprick3288

2 жыл бұрын

You would think that if she is capable of being a teacher she would be at least a little bit less dumb

@zefellowbud5970

2 жыл бұрын

As a fellow person with adhd This is honestly satisfying to read

@bhume7535

2 жыл бұрын

Where I'm from the 504 only applied to main classes like English and Math and such. When I was in Music my teacher would constantly tell me I'm a daydreamer and to stop being in la la land and actually play the music. Finally she pulled me and my mom into a meeting and she explained it all to my mom and right off my mom said "do you have his 504?" and the teacher explained that only the main classes had that and that it wasn't necessary and said that I need to focus better in class. After that meeting my mom was like "This is fucking bullshit." called up the superintendent for the district and explained to him that there are probably countless kids in classes not getting the proper accommodations for activities they may actually enjoy. 504 was applied to all classes after that :) My mom rocks.

@appleholo2336

2 жыл бұрын

I was held back 2 years because know one could figure out why I couldn’t read but once I was tested for dyslexia I ended up at a school that specialized in it and I can safely say I would have never finished High school with out the teachers who knew how to help me.

The fact your teachers didn’t know that if you would have had dislexia u would have had it in every language. And not just english

@glassy_rose

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I found it odd that Connor didn't discuss reading in Welsh.

@mrcried2745

2 жыл бұрын

@@glassy_rose yeah

@porcorosso4330

2 жыл бұрын

There are languages that don't require spelling though... I guess you can still mix up the characters...

@SMA2343

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t even wanna imagine someone with dyslexia in an Asian country. With the stroke orders and everything. Must be hell

@bobberry1463

2 жыл бұрын

This actually not true you can be. It very common to only have it with English

Had a similar issue to connor. I found school extremely boring so I basically just checked out whenever i figured i'd had a passing mark. So about half of my school work went undone and teachers couldn't understand why I either scored 0 or 100 on projects. Had me tested by a professional and the professional was apparently pissed that the teachers couldn't figure out that I just wasn't interested in the school work since that's a super basic thing kids do.

@KenBladehart

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I got very disinterest with high school when teachers start dumping endless homework Luckily, I always placed above average at exams

@Loaves_of_Cat

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@festivalboat9068

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@LukasJampen

2 жыл бұрын

​@@KenBladehart similar to me. In Switzerland the age might be different but when I got into our version of highschool I started doing noticeably less and less as the years went on. I got decent grades in some subjects and only passables in others. The issue is that subjects I was good at and interested in were the ones I didn't need to do much but the subjects I needed it where the once I did basically nothing.

@msmrmoonyalt

2 жыл бұрын

Bro I just full on read books in school bc that is better than learning haha

I understand Connor, a lot of teachers really give the “you did this right?” “No” “see he’s lying.” And it fucking pissed me off as a child like, why don’t you fucking believe me if you’re asking me? I remember I was sent to the learning support team ONCE and for the rest of that year the teacher was like “oh we sent him there and he got lots of help for the rest of the year” they just want to seem like they found a problem and solved it to make themselves look good.

@acrojen03

Жыл бұрын

Not fully related to your comment, but the dialogue you put in reminded me of this; back in elementary school (which lasts until 7th grade here), there was one instance with our homeroom teacher. So, she was also our teacher in a couple of subjects, and had been so for a few years. For one of the assignments she made us do, she had a really unfair reaction to one of my classmates' work. Basically, she didn't believe he had actually written it himself (because it was too good, I think), so she made him do it again. Which made at least me, and probably the entire class, really mad on his behalf, because he seemed really distraught by it. I just think it was finally an assignment he really liked and/or worked really hard on. And to have your teacher just dismiss it as something you can't possibly have written, is just insulting. Especially since I _know_ many students get the help of their parents. Hell, I've had my mum write most of some of my assignments. (as in, for like a couple of assignments, she wrote most of the text, not that she did most of my assignments in general. Btw, fun fact, but the last time she did that for me, was when I got the reply from the teacher about it not being very well written. That's when I knew I had to stop, because I didn't want my grades to drop from me being lazy or procrastinating too much. XD) Either way, I've never gotten into trouble or received backlash from it, nor have I heard about any of my classmates experiencing that. That's why it just especially sucked when the kid who finally seemed proud and engaged in an assignment, got shot down like that and forced to redo it. Mkay, rant over. Sorry about that!

@OmniscientWarrior

Жыл бұрын

I had the opposite problem, by second grade I was already completing 5th grade math work sheets by myself just to have something to do sometimes and they were convinced that I wasn't special enough to warrant advance math placement... Because I had ADHD

@internalizedhappyness9774

Жыл бұрын

@@OmniscientWarrior Holy shit you’re so special you’re so special you’re so special!

@hardcoreoma

Жыл бұрын

Lol at everybody complaining about that. I WISH my teachers would've cared enough to say something. They were all either completely oblivious or had written me off as lazy and disorganized. I'm 28 and have just now received my adhd diagnosis, next to OCD, GAD and clinical depression, which finally gave me an answer to why my life has been such a miserable fuckup. Retrospectively I'd given everything for even just one teacher to help me getting to find that out earlier. They all knew I struggled. But no one cared.

lmao something similar happened to me. My two front teeth fell out before I entered elementary school and so for the first several weeks I had trouble pronouncing sounds that required those teeth. The school just thought I had a speech impediment and tried forcing me into a speech therapy program. The speech therapist just sent me back to my original class with a "you guys are idiots".

@secant4810

2 жыл бұрын

Speech therapists are absolute chads

@OmniscientWarrior

Жыл бұрын

It is like they never heard Theodore for Alvin and the chipmunks sing, all I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth, where he sung with a lisp because he didn't have those even though he basically said everything else normally

@MmeHyraelle

Жыл бұрын

Man i WISH i had a speech therapist. All i had is bullying.

@Chrosteellium

Жыл бұрын

THE SAME WITH ME! I don't think it was from losing my front teeth, but I remember having to take a speech therapy class that was completely useless to me. I remember the problem was that I put my tongue between my teeth for the "S" sound (almost like a lisp), but it wasn't one cause all it took to fix the problem was a "don't do it like that" and the problem was immediately fixed.

ADHD is simultaneously the most treatable disorder and most misunderstood disorder in the world. I had the same experience as Garnt being diagnosed as far as everything suddenly making a lot of sense, and I'm happy to be able to relate to him about it. I love learning when cool successful people have the same disorder I do lol

@ssfbob456

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me, a few months ago my boss made an offhand remark that I was probably ADD, and I got curious and looked up symptoms. took me like five minutes to be like "Uh...oh shit, I better make an appointment."

@F1ll1nTh3Blanks

2 жыл бұрын

I have pretty severe ADD, ASD, OCD and whatever else, I forget the rest of the diagnosis but whatever, doesn't matter, anyway my doctors and psychotherapists had no idea what to with me. I feel like I should be on meds or some treatment but the only thing I get treatments for is depression and anxiety. XD

@davidreacts8786

2 жыл бұрын

how is it misunderstood?

@brandyyn

2 жыл бұрын

most treatable how?

@MikePhantom

2 жыл бұрын

so misunderstood that every time i see people IRL or on the internet goin " i have adhd" i go like: "NO you dont, and im literally state certified to have it"

You can't just diagnose a person with dyslexia from these things. Connor is just a monke from birth. Also, he's Welsh. If you start from Welsh then of course going to English is a bit difficult!

@mrcried2745

2 жыл бұрын

U also can’t have dislexia in just one language

@falliscrazys364

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcried2745 you can also be dyslexia with math

@sexmansex4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcried2745 does it count if i only have dyslexia with languages i don't know?

@mrcried2745

2 жыл бұрын

@@sexmansex4776 that’s called not understanding the language, you can’t have dyslexia In just one language, if you have it in English, u have it in your native language too and the other way around

@pyr0clastic601

2 жыл бұрын

@@falliscrazys364 yeah but that’s something different. It’s called dyscalculia.

Hello! I had to study ADHD for a psych project a long LONG time ago (some things might be wrong) but a lot of ADHD is the inability to regulate dopamine secretion. So basically not being able to focus on one thing might be the lack of dopamine and hyperfixation is the excess of dopamine. It can contribute to time blindness and other problems, things that are at best nuisances and at worst huge obstacles to daily life. Many people with ADHD might mask to cope with the symptoms so several tend to fall through the cracks and don't get diagnosed until late in life

@FOKI5895

2 жыл бұрын

I would argue its overdiagnosed, particulary with kids.

@michellelee9661

2 жыл бұрын

@@FOKI5895 The DSM is constantly updating its definition! I wouldn't be surprised if the criteria for diagnosis continues to change. Recently they've changed it to be Hyperactive, Inattentive, or Combination ADHD to best encompass the mental hyperactivity and perhaps they may alter it again in the future.

@fluidthought42

2 жыл бұрын

@@FOKI5895 It's simultaneously overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed, mostly because ADHD is a terrible name for the disorder. ADHD really is inability (or drastically reduced ability) to control where your attention is directed. Not a lack of attention, a lack of control of that attention. So kids that are extremely forgetful and get fixated on small tasks get ignored over children that like to jump around, despite hyperactivity only being a relatively small aspect of ADHD, and even then it often gets subsumed into stimming and fidgeting behavior that is not as obvious. For example, I was diagnosed with ADD as a child, these days it's known in the DSM-V as ADHD Primarily Inattentive. However my parents did not seek out treatment via medication out of concerns and told me that I "grew out of it". By my twenties I went on my characteristic wiki walks and learning about anything and everything I could and heard and heard about hyperfocusing, learned it was a symptom of ADHD and then looked at the rest of the symptoms and realized that many of my current issues as an adult were from untreated ADHD symptoms. Lemme tell you what, medication is great when it works. The SNRI I took for a year had some unwanted side effects sure, but overall the experience has been positive.

@neko_nyan3150

2 жыл бұрын

I saw someone describe adhd as a chemical imbalance so now i just use it to describe myself to others (i have adhd)

@youngjellyfish8694

2 жыл бұрын

Adhd is an annoyingly complex disorder, because the problems it causes are very real and serious, but due to it being so common, literally any experience someone has as a person with adhd is said to be a symptom even if it’s only just a common life experience that even people without adhd experience. For example, one thing I’ve heard recently about it is that “oh people with adhd are dislike rejection”…..BRO EVERYONE DISLIKES THAT,,, it’s not just an adhd thing, it’s a human thing. So then while people are focusing trying to label and cure stuff that isn’t even unusual, things that are actually detrimental to people with adhd are flat out ignored, for example the stereotype that we’re dumb and can’t control ourselves is still spreading, DESPITE the fact that those stereotypes should have died ages ago. Another issue is over-medication AND under-medication, of course medication doesn’t work for everyone but parents treat it as a “fix my child” pill, but then other kids who might actually need it are denied it because of the stigma around medications. While medication was kinda useful for me it overall made me anxious and depressed, but it has worked wonderfully for my brother and has only increased his confidence, yet it took my parents years till 7th grade to get my brother medication while I got mine in grade 2, and despite me disliking the effects of my adhd medication they still push me to take it more than my brother.

We saw Garnt’s signs of ADHD when he examined the corona bottle. The meme was the key to everything

Garnt's experience convinced me to get an appointment with the doc and it didn't even take much time. Turns out I do have ADHD and it was also the most Ah-ha moment of my 24 years of life

@phantompop3192

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of test or thing do they do to test for adhd? Because in recent years I’ve noticed I have trouble with focusing on something and my attention tends to shift with many things. Do they test for that somehow to determine it?

@lgr28

2 жыл бұрын

@@phantompop3192 There might be different procedures for diagnosis depending on the country you are in. I went to the doc with a family member and a friend and all of us were asked to fill out questionnaires regarding my habits and general behaviours. They need testimonials from multiple sources in order to accurately understand your problem. I also had a session with the doc where he asked seemingly random details about my daily life. If you really do have adhd you'd be surprised how many of your personality tics are the result of adhd. The doc also spoke with the family member and friend. The whole procedure took about half a day for me. I admit that it might take several days for other people and I got away with one appointment because of my family's connection with a well known private practitioner. And I have been contemplating going to the doc for some time before Garnt's problem convinced me

@phantompop3192

2 жыл бұрын

@@lgr28 I see. Well I’m in America so I’m not sure how we do it here, but that’s something I could look into sometime then. Thank you for taking the time to respond. :)

@internalizedhappyness9774

Жыл бұрын

You know cancer patients don’t usually celebrate their diagnosis but I’m glad you can celebrate yours!

I love how Connor's brain works to deconstruct bullshit. I'm so glad he is a "stubborn fuck." Bravo!

Connor's story reminds me of a time in elementary school when the school had everybody take an eye exam, I guess to spot issues in children who were only a little bit off but not enough to have gone seen an ophthalmologist yet. Everyone had to go do it that day, even me (I was already several years into needing glasses, got that nearsightedness super early). When I arrived, the person administering the test told me to take my glasses off (weird request, but okay you're the one running the test). Obviously I failed. This caused my parents to receive a letter in the mail saying "We regret to inform you that your child may need glasses". Their response was a mix of "Fucking L O L we know, that's why he HAS them" and rage at wasting everyone's time (assuming they just did it wrong for everyone).

@eonstar

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they did that to see if a kid had glasses but didn't need them?

@vaporean_boylove.0w083

2 жыл бұрын

@@eonstar I'm sure you can spot a kid where just the frames. And if a kid didn't need them.... It would of been a bit clear. Cause I need classes and so does my brother. We swapped glasses and it hurt his eyes wearing mine!

@WishGender

2 жыл бұрын

For those tests they should usually make you keep the glasses on and find out if you need an upgraded prescription

@wahlflower3517

Жыл бұрын

I hated hearing tests more. Because in grade school, they had a sound proof box for the test. In middle and high school, it's just a pair of headphones next to a busy hallway. With the headphones, I would started failing the tests every couple of years. Specifically a tone similar to the tone people speak in like the voices in the busy hallway leaking through. At the school's suggestion, I would have a proper test done at a doctor's office. Passed it there every time. Eventually, my parents just started ignoring the school's letters saying that I failed again.

I had the exact opposite experience. My school tried to say I was just a slow learner and I wasn't actually dyslexic. My mom had to fight my school just for them to give me support classes and a diagnosis. I don't get why they thought I wasn't when I would cry over not being able to spell the word baseball and would struggle to read anything close to my grade-level reading.

@thepinkestpigglet7529

Жыл бұрын

I had one teacher who refused to believe I had adhd because he thought only boys could get it Which is weird because when I was diagnosed the neuropsycholgist said my adhd "Presented more like it does in boys than how it usally does it girls" (which I guess means I was more hyperactive than I was attention deficit).

ADHD is lacking the ability to regulate the amount of attention. When you're really interested in something it tends to grab your attention, but when you're supposed to focus on something youre not interested in youre going to find more difficulty then normal. Sometimes it feels like having distracting tourettes but just in your brain

@fluidthought42

2 жыл бұрын

Well I wouldn't call it Tourette's in that it almost never feels compulsive, but sometimes it does feel restricting in some ways

@OMGSAMCOPSEY

2 жыл бұрын

@@fluidthought42 Just sharing my experience. If by compulsive you mean excessive or uncontrollable maybe yours is more manageable than others? Sometimes it feels like that to me. Other times it's like running a computer with too many tabs open or being in the centre of 4 conversations at once. Boredom becomes overwhelming to the point where you can get exhausted from not doing anything

@acapitala4936

2 жыл бұрын

@@OMGSAMCOPSEY I have never seen a more accurate description of my life than this comment right here.

@michellerabey6637

2 жыл бұрын

This was a very helpful description!

@enbi5440

2 жыл бұрын

What's having distracting tourettes like?

It took until I was in my twenties before I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome because my mum was scared if I was diagnosed people would think I was different and not treat me normally. I kind of wished I'd been diagnosed when I was younger, so I had answers about why I was the way I as at an earlier age and could have had more time to learn to work around it.

@TeppiaxD

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear about that, the crazy thing is your going to be treated differently anyways so instead they made it so you internalize the issue instead of getting help with it.

@REChronic54

2 жыл бұрын

If I may ask, what were your experiences that led you to know that you had Aspergers?

@sarahthomson878

2 жыл бұрын

@@REChronic54 it was things like not understanding instructions or people's body language, being terrible at doing job interviews, and not being able to hold onto friends long-term because i don't communicate, or form a romantic relationship. my parents saw i was struggling and decided to bring up the idea of getting a diagnosis, listing several incidents from when i was a kid, or that i was classed as special needs at school (which i had no idea of). the diagnosis would let me receive support from a group in the UK called MAIN and they'd help me develop social skills and get out into the world. it's actually really helped me, because now i finally have a job and it's with a company i love, ODEON cinemas and it feels like the diagnosis paid off because my social skills have improved by leaps and bounds. :)

@vince8901

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, same thing happened to me

@leeaskewed

2 жыл бұрын

i hope you can get your diagnosis updated now! Autism Spectrum Disorder is what its called now :) they don't use the other one due to its history of eugenics and nazi sympathy.

I wish I was more stubborn as a kid like Connor was because I was "diagnosed" with a disability called a, "speech impediment". People really had a hard time understanding me because I didn't project my words. I believed them until I got older and developed a brain and realized I was just a nervous child and had social anxiety. If any of you ever have kids in the future, make sure for certain that they have a disability and that they need help, because when the word "disability" is labeled on you, you will face a bit of discrimination. Nothing severe, but people will look at you and treat you very differently once you have that label and it can get annoying. Also, don't give in to what your parents say if you don't feel right with it.

@crazygamer_1082

2 жыл бұрын

I actually have a speech impediment (it’s a real thing LOL) and it’s not as serious as people make it out to be. It can be major stutters, slurring of your words, speaking gibberish, etc. You literally just need speech therapy and you’ll be fine. good on you for recognizing you don’t have one I hope your social anxiety is better.

@SavantPete

2 жыл бұрын

@@crazygamer_1082 I had speech therapy, my therapist probably thought I had it and I could tell I was treated like I was incompetent, which was strange. Good luck, I hope you can get through the rigors of it.

@afilthypeasant9646

2 жыл бұрын

yeah as someone who had pretty bad verbal dyspraxia, you can tell if someone has social anxiety and is shy when talking.

@SavantPete

2 жыл бұрын

@@afilthypeasant9646 I don't want to think poorly of my high school but, I'm starting to think they were just labeling some of us with disabilities (maybe for funding). In my speech group, I'm remembering a lot of us did not have a speech problem or anything severe. I could be very wrong but I only remember 2 people having a severe problem.

@afilthypeasant9646

2 жыл бұрын

@@SavantPete i wouldn't be surprised to be honest

Connor got such a valid point. Yes, it’s important to observe your kids but goddamnit don’t over do it. That’s even worse. Ever heard of self fulfilling prophecy? And no person is almighty and even kids are often smarter because they are more attentive than most of the adults. Listen to your kids, guys.

I worked as a pre school and prek teacher for 5 yrs. We were taught about common learning disabilities, and how to identify them. Now days we are taught what questions to ask the kid, and how not to ask leading questions. So if we saw signs it was best to, ask another teacher, then bring it up to the parents so they can get them seen by the primary care doc and properly diagnosed. Sometimes the kid just doesn’t have a learning disability, and we just have to switch to a different teaching method.

To explain why people with ADHD can hyper focus- ADHD is actually a really crap name. I personally think it should be changed to "Executive Function Disorder", because people with ADHD have problems with function. If you have ADHD you will experience problems with BOTH attentiveness and inattentiveness. What might be a good way to explain this, at least in how I experience having ADHD, is that for "normal" people their focus is tap that you can adjust the amount of water flow from by turning it as needed. For me it's like having a fire hose that only a on/ off lever, and I have to flip the lever really fast to try to accomplish the same volume of output as everyone else... and sometimes the lever gets stuck or my arm gets too tired to keep flipping it and is hard to move. In both cases water comes out, but the control, and the amount of effort to get the same level of control is completely different.

@sachab6098

2 жыл бұрын

for all the normal people in the comments - not sure that non-adhd tap is exactly like that either because focusing depends on a lot of things, like anxiety and dehydration and blood sugar

@resphantom

2 жыл бұрын

I can tell you that for me I always tend to get hyper focused on one thing, but then that hyper focus would flip depending on what makes the most noise or looks the most interesting. For me it's like comparing a sniper with a shotgun trying to shoot a long range target. Where the normal person is the sniper, the person with ADHD has a shotgun and the target is a task that needs to get done. With a shotgun sometimes one bullet will randomly hit the target on the first try, but most of the time it hits everything else. You do have the benefit of rapid fire, but it may require more bullets (energy) to rapidly fire a shotgun and you may eventually run out of bullets. Where with a sniper you just need one bullet to hit the target.

Yeah I remember in my school, there was this one kid who clearly had something going on, but nobody quite knew what, but their parents refused to do anything about it because they didn't want them to be stigmatized. The problem was because they where quite intense in their ways, they *where* stigmatized and the rest of the school students where "Please just find out what it is so that they can get the help they need" because it was tearing down on the rest of the class. My uncle had the rough of it because this kid tended to bother him a lot and my uncle had anger issues, which this kid just did not pick up on, which in turn ended up with violent episodes. My uncle knew he was in the wrong for responding to that, but he just wanted to be left alone by this kid, and was amongst those that wanted their parents to at least get them checked that if they had something, the school would get the resources to help them and at least lessen the encounters they had

I HAVE ADHD, so in the opening seconds of this video, let me clear something up. The people telling Connor about ADHD were right on both counts, sort of, it sounds like they just don't understand how it works properly. ADHD is the lack of the ability to REGULATE your focus. So if I don't find something genuinely interesting, I just can't, and I mean CAN'T focus on it. Doing dishes is basically impossible. However, If I do like something, lets say playing a really fun videogame, it can be almost impossible to tear myself away from it, even if it's unhealthy. 12 hour gaming sessions aren't uncommon, and this is also the reason people with ADHD are very prone to addictions. Drinking booze or smoking dope feels good, so if you have trouble pulling yourself away from fun things, it's very easy to fall in a spiral straight down to addiction.

My mother did this super cool thing where I got diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, and then she proceeded to *not tell me* for my entire childhood until I was 18 and already finished with high school (just barely surviving it at the bare minimum to graduate,) being told I was lazy and that I was just a terrible person and student the whole way and denying that I had something wrong with me. SUUUPER cool mother. So cool. Now I'm 22 and live in a different country lol

@sayantanmazumdar3

Жыл бұрын

You could have become a genius in a specific subject with the help of an education guide but they relied on the good old 'bad grades=dumb= lazy' doctrine.

I was diagnosed with Autism in my late 20s. And it was the same as Garnt the biggest change was me starting to understanding myself for the first time. It has actually reduced some of issues because I now know why they happen and the are easier to manage as a result.

There is also a quirk in a lot of neurodivergent people where we tend to congregate with others that exhibit a lot of the same traits. So if you have a group of say five people and one is diagnosed with ASD or ADHD/ADD there is a really freaking good chance at least one other in the group falls under a similar category.

@thepinkestpigglet7529

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes the "Not good with social norms" clique

I'm glad the internet has a lot of information and comradery for ADHD folks now, I wish you all the best in your ADHD journey,there is so much to discover

Connor's story makes me think of an incident that happend to me in elementary school; I had mild autism when I was younger. During one of my classes, I was called out privately by my guidance counselor and another person I didn't know. I had no clue what was happening but I complied. I was tested on how well I could read, how well I could understand verbal direction, and asked to solve various problems from math/english ect. I also remember the person testing me taking notes on what I answered stuff. When it was done, I was sent back to class. When I told my mom what happend, she was so pissed. She didn't like my school testing me that way without her permission. She went to school with me the next day and asked why they did this and wanted to see the notes they took on me XD I was so oblivious why she was upset back then.

@RexZShadow

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like multiple laws were broken if they did that without parent consent lol.

@turq99

2 жыл бұрын

@@RexZShadow I guess the school noticed I wasn't getting the material maybe? I know I was diagnosed a bit earlier then the typical age but I am not sure if the school knew yet I honestly don't know what facilitated it. I didn't know to question it like Conner in his story. But my mom sure did.

@RexZShadow

2 жыл бұрын

@@turq99 but I feel like those test would require guardian consent and proabaly why your mom got so angry.

@turq99

2 жыл бұрын

@@RexZShadow That probably true.

@porcorosso4330

2 жыл бұрын

@@RexZShadow Feels like non invasive tests. I don't think it is a big deal.

i have autism, but yea some days i look at my clock and 6 hours had went by without knowing, i have my main interests, and talk about it like i took a phd. Now i know even if i'm not "normal" i haven't been more happy and stress less

Garnt having ADHD makes so much sense now when I think about the playing-whole-pokemon-episodes-in-his-head-at-a-temple episode

I had a dyslexic acquaintance who would always say “I’m lysdexic” whenever he read something wrong in class

I got tested for dyslexia, and my friends were like: exagerrate, that way you get extra time in tests. But I didn't do that, I just calmly answered the questions, read the texts and somehow I got diagnosed and 12 years later I still don't believe I'm dyslexic XD I only read different words when I see texts for a split second or scan a text instead of actual reading

@Urube23

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know much about dyslexia, so sorry if I speak out of turn, but isn't it poosible that there are different degrees of dyslexia? Much like how autism and adhd and add are spectrums? It's more so a thought of mine than anything else, really.

@fatscorpion1652

2 жыл бұрын

@@Urube23 yes there are many degrees of dyslexia, from what my doctor told me after my diagnosis for dyslexia there are different types and degrees of dyslexia some may experience major problems with dyslexia while others may only experience a tiny bit but it’s still there :)

Makes so much more sense that Garnt was reminding himself not to work while he's on a break from the anime channel

In the US they usually do a neuropsych evaluation i think-not for everyone but for a lot of people. for me it was several hours of testing over 2 days. it includes an IQ test and other tests that are designed to analyze how you reason through problems, including reading, writing, math, spatial, and memorization problems. I’ve taken 3 of them in my life and i didn’t end up having ADHD or any other diagnosable learning disability haha. just a depressed perfectionist! edit: also forgot to say this cost like $1500 each time and insurance didn’t cover it

@X3nophiliac

2 жыл бұрын

lol in 2015 i got diagnosed with ADD(kinda defunct version of ADHD) from a *questionnaire* lmao gotta love the american healthcare system

@L-Puffin

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing here! Got tested twice, and it was just good ol' major depressive disorder and and general anxiety disorder. Got the max possible score for the verbal skills section though, so that was neat to find out at least lmao

@ZoeMeg12

2 жыл бұрын

@@L-Puffin lol yeah i actually had a similar result! i think my verbal comprehension was like 99.9 percentile, and my IQ was pretty high, which is cool to know. although i still struggled through high school because of my depression. all my teachers were like "you're so smart, just do the work!!" but i just could not function haha.

A similar thing happened with my sibling. The administration told me that they had depression since they didn’t talk or want to participate in class. I knew that my sibling was just being shy since at home they are always active. As a kid you are made to believe that everything adults say is true, so I was glad that I didn’t believe them for a second after they said this.

this bothered me a little when Garnt said it but I’m not upset or anything. I just wanted to clarify accommodations such as extra time on tests are not an advantage. They’re there to level the playing field.

I actually envy y’all who got tested for these things. When I was growing up in Asia nobody knew about these things. Also, frankly, people just didn’t care. I wish my teachers had actually payed more attention to me when I was a kid. I mean in middle school I was consistently falling asleep in classes because 1) I barely got any sleep since I regularly stayed up till 2-4 am as a coping mechanism for parents that could not leave me alone during the day 2) I was nearsighted, could not see the blackboard, but was too scared to tell anyone, and 3) our English class was just too easy for me, I was already reading stuff like Hamlet, 1984, and Wuthering Heights in English (our foreign language) for fun so of course our English class bored the hell out of me. But because my grades were okay and that I was in a somewhat famous gifted program nobody cared. Now I wish that someone had asked about my home life or if I was getting enough sleep or why I didn’t make friends with my peers and barely talked to anyone. People just assumed that I was intentionally being weird and I just went with that explanation because that was easier than admitting that I felt so deeply alone because no one at school knew that I was getting yelled at everyday at home, sometimes physically hit, or that my mom and dad didn’t get along but they both would sometimes direct their anger at me, or that my dad used to show ownership over my body in a way that he was not supposed to, or that I often cried myself to sleep to the point that my eyes would become visibly swollen in the morning and I would worry about people at school finding out. I hate myself now for hiding it so well. I hate that I came out of it in one piece. I have no visible scars to show people what happened, just, EMotional DAmaGE, haha. I wish somebody cared.

@serene-illusion

2 жыл бұрын

That's really awful to hear. If you don't mind sharing, how are you doing now?

I was diagnosed with ADD when i was a child. The way that they casually introduced drugs to children back then was terrible. For many years the focusing medicine was a crutch to me, where i basically just didnt start working until i took it because i thought i wouldnt be able to without it.

@WishGender

2 жыл бұрын

medication can be a double edged sword. I know that my life has been significantly improved by my medication but I also know that I would simply not function without my meds (especially since some of them are for depression and stuff). I totally get what you mean

@jenbooob

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly believe that for children, medication should be administered for a time but slowly be phased out in exchange for some form of therapy or the like to allow them to better handle their symptoms as opposed to making medication their only tool to control the issue. Being on medications for adhd that fuck your appetite and keep you up at night for over a decade fucking sucks. Ive been slowly just reducing the overall amount of my meds I've been taking just to avoid it being a crutch. At one point it was 72 milligrams daily for my meds. Never again.

i had this too!! in primary school i was put in special reading classes because they were convinced i had dyslexia and my teacher would always be like “wow you’re flying through this book!” YEAH SHARON COS IM NOT DYSLEXIC

when i was in kindergarten all my teachers thought i was deaf, and even talk to my mother about me learning sign language because it was good to start me early. but the problem was i wasn't deaf.. apparently i just didn't speak for the 5 months i was there ( this conversation happened in December) idk why i didn't speak at all, i started speaking prob around maybe 3rd grade. but i also have ADHD so i relate to the video.

10:45 my parents are like that :/ The whole Connor thing where adults tried convincing him that he had dyslexia is like completely opposite of what I went through lol my parents and teachers were SO convinced that nothing could possibly be "wrong" with me because I was smart, respectful, and always at the top of my classes. Though, because some symptoms of mine were seen as "good" things, it was hard to get the assistance i needed which sucked. They saw my undesirable symptoms as me just being "quirky" or being dramatic because of the internet or smth, which is mighty understandable considering what the mental disorder side of the internet is rn fr though, I grew up feeling separated and distant from my peers because I was told that I was too mature for them and they were simply too childish for me. I took my social ineptitude as distaste for their immaturity because that's what the adults told me idk. they were wrong but I was a kid and didn't rlly know yk

@dutch970

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s very similar for me, I was always scoring 100%, leading projects, and in general very mature for my age. Sooo everyone took me flipping the absolute fuck out because I got a 99% as “haha kid good at school doesn’t think an A is good enough”, in reality it was sever OCPD. I would straight up melt down over not getting the best score, not winning, or not having things the way I wanted (in private of course). Since the age of like 4 I need things to happen the way I wanted, I needed things to be “perfect”. This resulted in lots of private mental breakdowns (because if people knew how I felt I wouldn’t be seen as “perfect”) and unhealthy bottling of emotions. Finally got to a point where it was so bad adults couldn’t ignore it or brush it of any longer, and I’m finally starting to get help. Best of luck to the both of us haha

@KTSUMIAO

2 жыл бұрын

@@dutch970 samee augh that good kid image got me messed up 😔 My family will "joke" that I have conditions (OCD, Social Anxiety Disorder, phobias and ADHD- these ones ig) but like it might actually be true lol that perfectionist gifted kid will be the death of me I swear

@dutch970

2 жыл бұрын

@@KTSUMIAO exactly lol, my friends joke about how obsessive I am (OCD or OCPD) but it’s legit something that makes it hard to function sometimes. Meanwhile I’m scared to open up to anyone because I’ve been told “Your life is so good, what could be bad” or “But you seem so put together all the time” -little do they know my ass struggles to maintain basic hygiene and nutrition 😭 I recently got seated down by multiple school counselors and my parents for “check-ins”, so I’m pretty sure they’re onto it, which is scary, but also what I need 😅

@KTSUMIAO

2 жыл бұрын

@@dutch970 oh that sounds mighty epic 👍good luck with all of that :)) the most I've gotten help with was the time i had a panic attack in class and a teacher found me crying outside. She took me to see the prevention specialist, who i saw like 3 other times after that i think. She told my mom that I suffer with really bad anxiety and depression and stuff but like my parents don't really do anything with that information lol

@dutch970

2 жыл бұрын

@@KTSUMIAO I’m really sorry to hear that, I hope you get the help you need! I briefly was put into therapy, but my therapist moved across the country, so no more therapist lol my parents said they’d try to get me a new one….that was almost a 2 years ago the worst though is the doctor’s office cause they know what I’m diagnosed with (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder), and I have to awkwardly tell them “no my parents aren’t doing anything ahahaha” and then they explain how important treating this early is, and then my parents do nothing still 😐

Where I am, at schools you basically aren’t even allowed to say the word “dyslexia” in relation to an undiagnosed student, much less do informal questioning/assessments, for this exact reason. You need written permission from the family for formal assessment, and the assessments do not target any one specific thing but cover a broad spectrum try to identify/narrow down the unique things the student is struggling with and ways to support them on an individual level. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s designed to try to prevent things like this from happening and help focus on the students’ unique needs. Lots of people like to look at people struggling with school subjects taught in their second language and try to diagnose them with some kind of learning disability rather than recognizing it’s a language acquisition issue. You’d think the teachers of a dual language school would recognize this, but alas. I suppose Connor was just too uniquely uninterested in reading.

Japanese ADHD here! The topic itself can be frustrating on ALL sides. My husband and I are both ADHD along with all the lovely stuff that can come with it (depression, anxiety, ect) but we had completely differebt childhoods around it. I was the kid whos parents didnt want to acknowledge something was 'wrong' with me. So any amount of asking for help, or trying to tell them how I felt was met with "no. Youre just lazy. You dont try hard enough. The problem is just YOU." So my grades failed because it made me feel I had to be resigned to the problem being ME. My husband however had a mother who wanted desperately to 'fix' her son. He definitely has ADHD but she thought more problematic teenage behaviors due to a *ehem* stressful home emviroment was something that could be fixed with a pill. So she got him diagnosed with with Bipolar and other things. He was forced to take pills for an extended period of time that made him feel awful so in turn he acted out even more. The whole time his mom shoving more pills in him. Now, he has trouble trying to accept any help, while I desperately seek it but living in the USA, cant afford it. We now rely on each other for support. But it really shows that I think the root is people viewing these conditions as inherently awful. Its not rainbows and sunshine but just like those with physical disablilities and people viewing them like theyre 'scary' just makes everyones understanding and acceptance of those people, as well as the actual medical resources they may need, being that much worse and harder to find.

I was misdiagnosed with autism when I have adhd and anxiety so I related to Connor so much

I recently got the diagnosis ADD and strong signs I’m on the Autism spectrum. Thing is I am very sensitive and can read people really well however. I’ve read a lot of articles about how born female might differentiate from someone being born male on the spectrum. I’ve had issues concentrating since I was born, never followed along in school and took ages to focus. Once I really got focused on something I hyperfocused and got it done. If I just got to be alone, without any people around or noice I would get things done, I mean. I hated hanging out with other people and I only liked being with one person at a time. I was pretty allright in most subjects, I just didn’t understand when I’d be able to use them in adult life so I filtered out a lot and questioned everything. Growing up I took theatre classes and was forced together with kids sometimes by my parents, I don’t know if this helped me anything. I do enjoy hanging out with other people, I just get drained.

@MarkoArillius

2 жыл бұрын

Half of what you described is being an introvert. Being drained from social interaction does not mean you're autistic, male or female. Really has nothing to do with being autistic at all.

I'm currently in the process of getting diagnosed and were I live (Germany) its usually 3 to 5 sessions with a psychologist, with a lot of surveys, questions etc. from childhood to now, how I reacted in certain situations, what my behaviour was as a child and what troubles I had or currently have. In my case its not as easy, because I am more the inattentive type (also known as ADD I guess), which is less kinetically hyperactive and more subtle on the outside. Also, over time you begin to mask and "cope with" so many things, that it can be difficult to get behind it. My personal eye-opener was a YT video from a psychiatrist that described a common biography of someone that is intelligent but with the inattentive type of ADHD and he basically described my life in just a few minutes. All the things that happened, all the issues I had and when I had them, the 20 years of depression that was caused by it and so on. After a good cry of relief that there is an explanation for all that, I went down the rabbit hole of YT and found so many people that are just like me and all of them were diagnosed with ADHD! If it quacks like a duck... A friend asked me recently what a diagnose would change for me, because he would rather not know. For me it would be the relief, some kind of validation that I'm not just weird and different and lazy, that whatever I do has an actual reason in my brain and that people who complain about things I do to cope with life can suck it. But since I actually do have trouble and issues with a lot of things in my daily life that are caused by my ADHD (incl. depression), it would also give me access to tools to handle all that better, like correct medication and/or therapy.

Connor doesn’t have dyslexia, he’s just got a monke brain

whole world: learning English through games Connor: I'll just broteforce this French game

I’m the same thing, all my teachers kept on saying I had dyslexia all throughout primary/secondary school and it sucked because it made me feel like I was always going to struggle and never amount to anything. It wasn’t until I was around 21 I took an official test I found out I didn’t even have dyslexia.

They were for real gaslighting him into having dyslexia bruh 😭

This is an odd choice for a video title, since the bulk of the conversation seems to be more on Garnt’s ADHD.

Oh, and by the way for Connor, the way someone is diagnosed with ADHD or dyslexia or any other learning deficits or is what I like to call it a Learning differences. A psychologist will conduct the psychoeducational evaluation and assess precise learning needs. Think of it as an IQ test mixed in with social psycho and current event questionnaires.

I finally got diagnosed with ADHD when I was 30. I got medicated and it was a massive change for the better in my case.

I can relate to Conner to hard. Had teachers convinced there had to be something wrong. Example they made me do reading lessons in 8th grade trying help me say the word “cloud” (I read it perfectly fine but they still would sound it out).

I like the little addition of the staff member in the back talking too

In america to get diagnosed, you just have to go to a child doctor and have them fill out a questionnaire and depending on the survey score you can officially be diagnosed with ADHD (there are other methods also but that is... one of them). Works perfectly, no issues, good job America.

As much as comments and chats shouldn't try to diagnose people BUT it actually makes sense...you don't really know if you have an issue unless someone else points it out. It's wrong to assume others tell you is right, it should just give you an idea and have them checked. Same as those people who have been told of a tumor after appearing on cam/TV, and turns out indeed it's a tumor and have it removed.

@galuxius1861

Жыл бұрын

I know for me personally. A lot of my friends, some who had ADHD themselves pointed out to me I have a lot of the symptoms. I haven't been diagnosed but I'm considering getting it checked out which I would have never considered before. It's hard sometimes because sometimes you just think "oh yeah this is normal" Sometimes having a few people around you point out that you might be dealing with something really opens your eyes on your own behaviors.

Bruh same teachers tried to label me dyslexic in 1 grade and to make it worst they would remove me from main lessons (maths, English*, sciences, etc) which made it worse for me to learn those question.

Is that why Connor skip dialogue in games? cuz he hates reading? absolute monke brain 🤣

@anonymousfilipino3232

2 жыл бұрын

what why would anyone do this what kind of monster skips videogame dialogue

For Joey (in a nice way): If its "similar to ADHD but not ADHD" that just means lower on the spectrum, adhd isnt a "yes" or "no" its a "how bad" source: experience

@lucian1311_

Жыл бұрын

100% this ADHD amd autism are very broad terms

I was homeschooled throughout grade school and I remember one year I just didn’t do math because I couldn’t sit down and focus on it. Not diagnosed or anything but it’s strange to think about. Now I work from home and I have such a hard time focusing on work.

"...now I have a word to put to how I felt for a lot of my life." Being "abnormal" can be traumatic and can really mess with people. Finally figuring out the words to describe yourself is the most alleviating feeling in the world. I will never forget my 'aha' moment, as my eyes were opened to why I was feeling the way I was.

I had a hard time in school being undiagnosed, learning disabilities are kind of hushed and I grew up in the bush period of "no kid left behind", so if you didn't have an accent or english wasn't your first language, they ignored your needs.

In 3rd grade my teacher was convinced I have adhd and told my parents because I was doing poorly in class(barely passing grades). A few years later I ended up moving and getting a change of school and scenery and I became the valedictorian in both middle and high school. But then I flopped in college so who knows.

so true. I used to hate reading as well. I remember I was 5th grade and the only books I'd want to read were level 1 or 2 Berenstein bears books. Never did like reading up until 10th grade when I heard about a fantasy book series that peaked my interest. I'd always been somewhat interested in fantasy but had still never done any recreational reading on it. 10th grade I picked up this series and immediately binge read something like 5 books within a few months. Haven't stopped reading that author's books even now. It really is true. Sometimes it's not that you're stupid or bad at something. Sometimes it's just because you lack interest or motivation. The real skill is knowing how to persuade your brain into being interested.

@bonfist7277

2 жыл бұрын

I read all the time when I was forced to in school and thought I was enjoying it. Now that I have no obligation to read a book, it feels impossible to motivate myself to do so

11:41 The biggest gut punch when I started putting two and two together was realising "Wait, not everyone needs to spend like two hours to watch an hour long lecture recording? Or they don't spend an entire day trying to read like one or two chapters from the course textbook? Wtf?" Like, we have the same finish line, but why is my starting line so fucking far behind the rest of my peers?

@Prinren

11 ай бұрын

THIS FOR REAL! It is so bizarre... It really affected my college life for the worst. I was trying so hard I burned myself out and lost the interest in the subjects and then guilt of not being able to do shit just made it worse. It's like you're trying to retell a dream, like, you know what happened but also not, so you try to go back only for the fogginess and "Oh wait it's 13:00 I need to make lunch and... what is the homework for tomorrow??? FUCK I FORGOT!" to take over again and again... And then you go on 3 hours deep dives about why people think Crocodile is Luffy's mom....

my best friend got diagnosed with adhd at 28 and autism at 32. its amazing that it took so long for her to get diagnosed. i got diagnosed with adhd at 24 last year. it makes my whole life make more sense now

As someone with dyslexia, math is almost as impossible as reading is sometimes. I just zone out the second I see a long math problem. No idea. Reading is much easier as an adult though and they make some good aids for people who are trying to ease into it and don’t want to be overwhelmed by the page.

Ahh I see the problem. Connor isn't dyslexic, he's just Welsh. it's basically the same thing. Have you SEEN Welsh words!?

I actually had the opposite thing happen. I started reading at a young age, I always excelled in school, I was in gifted and talented in grade school, had all As until 9th grade, got a 3.8 GPA in high school and a 3.6 GPA in college. Math was my “bad” subject, but I was still in advanced math and had As and Bs in it. So I grew up with everyone thinking I didnt have any learning disabilities, that my only mental health issues were extreme anxiety and panic disorders. But I discovered dyscalculia was a thing, which is basically dyslexia, but with numbers, and people usually have both, but not always. And when I learned that what happens with letters can happen with numbers, things finally started to make sense as to why I struggled so much with math, to the point I would sit with my homework for HOURS and cry and I just couldnt understand certain things. I had a habit of flipping equations or mixing up where the numbers were in the equation or in the work I was doing to solve the problem. Id routinely get the wrong answer because I accidentally had 5-6 instead of 6-5 or Id be doing a problem, and three steps in, Id write down a 5 instead of a 3 and mess the whole thing up and obviously my teacher would look at my work and not understand where 5 came from and neither could I lol. I also would always count on my fingers, still do. But all of the attention academically (and mentally, really, until I attempted suicune in 8th grade) went to my older brother who has severe autism, so I basically ended up faking it til I made it lol. And now, not having had a math class in years, its gotten progressively worse because I dont use numbers a ton anymore and you always have a calculator in your pocket and I know which number is which on a keyboard because theyre always in the same place.

My parents actually introduced me to War of Warcraft when I was like six because I would watch them play it and it looked interesting. Although I refused to read any of the quests I would pick up and would either ask my parents to read them for me, or I just ran around Stormwind killing bunnies and deers and the low-level wolves that were nearby.

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD too. When talking to my psychiatrist he asked a lot of questions about how it was for me learning in school and how I process things. Then I took a questionnaire that confirmed it. I am prescribed Adderall but I only really take it when I have to really focus. It fucks up my sleep way too much for me to take it daily.

A big issue with ADHD diagnosis is that a lot of the time, if you to some degree have any of your shit together, they'll completely dismiss the possibility. Can't count how many times they tried to bring up the fact that I haven't dropped out of university or that I even got to university, heavily implying it means I couldn't have ADHD.

I got diagnosed (not ADHD) but with schizophrenia when I was 27 and I probably had it already when I was a teen and a child, and I had a lot of "aha" moments when I got diagnosed. Since I knew something was wrong because I felt so different and acted different. When you have a name for your problem it is so much easier.

This was posted on my bday :). Thank you for pointing out that we are still in a place where most people would think that you go to the psychologist cause you have a problem or something is wrong with you. That's not it.

In school there are a lot of subjects in wich you need to excel. And all of them are different. In my opinion, teachers need to chill out and learn that it's ok for a kid to suck at something. It's even a good thing in some cases like Conners because you can learn your strengths and weaknesses and decide what you want to do in life.

i got diagnosed with adhd in the uk and i did a screening questionnaire first (and my family had to do one about me too) and then i had to do a weird computer test where it tracks your eyes while you’re supposed to concentrate on the screen and i scored in the 99th percentile so they didnt bother asking me any further questions lmao

I could never figure out why, but a lot of teachers I had in school targeted me. When I was in elementary school, the teachers were so persistent in trying to convince me into thinking that I had mental disorders/disabilities that I never ended up having. People kept trying to feed me bullshit reasonings as to why I must have it. It's honestly a pretty disgusting thing to do to children, and it got to the point where everyone kept accusing me of having it, despite me knowing that I didn't.

I had dyslexia at one point, but i have grown and evolved and no longer am dyslexic

@xKuukkelix

2 жыл бұрын

What? Your Dyslexic is evolving! It became Dyslexigone!

@falliscrazys364

2 жыл бұрын

@@xKuukkelix yes it is a thing. It’s not like it’s not there , it’s like your brain learns what is doing. But typically when your tried it returns.

@mrcried2745

2 жыл бұрын

@@falliscrazys364 it’s not a disease, that’s just learning how to read, and deal with it

@shadowkyber2510

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcried2745 yep you're right it's not a disease but no it's not just learning how to read, it's an actual disorder

@falliscrazys364

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcried2745 dyslexia is learning how to read???? Mate you have no idea. Yes you can improve on your dyslexia but it’s always there. As someone who suffers from dyslexic is not just something you can beat with a simple book. It takes years. (Yes it’s not a disease) but it returns when you brain get tried. Because you become less aware when your tired. (Buts it’s metal health)

I always wondered why it took longer for me to process information, or write stuff down. I eventually got diagnosed with dyspraxia about 5 years ago and it all made sense

My partner was forced in a dyslexia program without even being tested because his mom is, mildly, mentally disabled so of course he had to have something too. Those teachers doing that program quickly figured out that he did indeed not have that because he was the best in that program without even trying but recommend to get him tested for ADHD. That he actually has. He just sucks as reading and writing a normal amount. He can do both just fine, honestly I've seen worse and of course someone who was never able to concentrate on a text for long doesn't read as fast as someone like me who never stopped reading for more than a few hours especially as a child.

Over diagnosis, specially of this diseases, it's super prevelent. Studies have literally proven that if your classroom has more people more students are more likely to be diagnosed with adhd. Which in reality is just kids having troubles concentrating because there's too much confusion and lack of help from teachers.

When I was diagnosed with ADD they did the standard test thing and all that. And they also did the brain cap scan thing and said my brain was all over the place

I’ve had my adhd diagnosis since I was probably about 6 years old. I didn’t get my autism diagnosis until I was 16, and it really is just like Garnt says. It was an aha moment.

"fidget with things so that I can focus" Wait... I hope to God i don't do that

The school literally documented everything about me. They even made notes on how I walked down the stairs (slow and not alternating between each foot).

12:10 I saw this video hes talking about and it was really sad at the end how true it was. Neurotypicals make heartbreaking assumptions when we are trying out best in these situations.

i got diagnosed with almost like a game and they give me a clicker to use when a square was in a certain position

The way you get diagnosed sometimes varies based off of what they’re thinking you have, but they usually start with a quiz. A lot of online quizzes are pretty accurate to what they actually ask but end up falling short because most symptoms aren’t just specific to one mental illness. You need to be able to explain your thought process behind your options, because a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question is simply not enough to diagnose someone.

Ok, but I literally had a professor who taught Spanish at my university call me on my personal phone number (btw no idea how they got my number) to tell me that they thought I had dyslexia…. I literally read everyday for fun and work in a library. I’m not dyslexic. Apparently I’m just really bad at Spanish.

This is the opposite of my school lol. When I was in primary I always struggled to read and write, I’d switch letters around, skip lines, I couldn’t read out the words in general. But my mum would bring it up to the teacher on parents evening and the teachers were just adamant on me not having it. And it didn’t take me until s4 (that’s like year 10) to actually get somewhat diagnosed with it. But even then I still haven’t got a test and I’m down as ‘possible dyslexia’. It’s been 2 years since I’ve asked for a test

In America it's like a 3 week time period to make sure you have adhd when I joined the army I had to do little tests like memory based ones like drawing an image through memory, doing speed test like how Long takes to put small poles in a small rack with one hand, word memory, remember stories after 10 minutes then memorizing another one to just retell both stories 20 Minutes after that and how fast you handle all subjects of problems. Also usually it's done by a neuropsychologist.

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I only remember things my brain deems important in the moment. I nailed all of school easily, but if you asked me questions about what I learned, I will have likely forgotten most of it. And I can’t draw even a little bit.

I had the same experience as Connor with Pokemon, except playing as a Finnish kid in English. Didn't know the language, but muddled through anyways and had a great time playing.

Playing Pokemon in French without knowing it... it reminds me, something I still have no idea how I did that. I learned English by playing ADOM. An ASCII Roguelike that didn't have any art at all, only text. It's not my first language and I only knew some very basic elementary school level back then.

When people say "but I guess in this modern age everyone can be overwhelmed by all this information", I am 22, got diagnosed earlier this year, but no, it's still clearly so different from how other people get distracted. I don't need a phone, I can be browsing my own head in circles for hours, or I have trouble picking up a book, but when I read I do nothing else for the rest of the day, forgetting to eat and such, and these things were already there as a kid, before I had a phone.

Cuts to Garnt seeing the Corona beer and laughing to himself

Im American and when I was a kid getting diagnosed, they tested me with various games and block puzzles as well as a conversation with a specialized psychologist. I think it varies on age too, I was very young when that happened hence the focus on games and puzzles.

I guess I might have to talk to my counselor now

I was helping kids in year 7 read because of the coronavirus stunting their learning. I was told some kids were discouraged from learning anymore because a teacher told them they were dyslexic however teachers don't have the qualifications to identify dyslexia. This meant that the teachers were actually harming the students learning than helping by falsely diagnosing them with dyslexia. It's a bit sad tbh but we helped the kids overcome that