ADHD and other LDs

Who are we? Why are we famous? : 

Who are we? Why are we famous? (His teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything) (He was four years old before he could speak,and seven before he could read)

What links us? : 

What links us?

They all had learning difficulties like: : 

They all had learning difficulties like: ADHD

Top ten great characteristics of this condition : 

Top ten great characteristics of this condition Creative Artistic Intuitive Empathetic Visionary Inventive Sensitive Original Loving Exuberant

ADHD : 

ADHD Attention difficulties Disorganised Easily distracted. Hyperactive Impulsive Doctors aren't sure exactly what causes ADHD. It is known to involve certain chemicals in the brain that affect how a person acts, thinks and feels.

Slide 6: 

5% of the world's population have ADHD

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I can’t remember when I was told I have ADHD. I know it was early in primary school. ADHD effects me in different ways like some of the following:-

The downside : 

The downside I have trouble staying focused, listening and completing work. I find it hard paying attention in group lessons and sometimes in individual tasks (mainly repetitive, uninteresting ones)

More downers : 

More downers I have a hard time starting and stopping tasks and shifting from one thing to another. I constantly fidget in class. I often daydream and drift off into my own little world

More!? : 

More!? I sometimes interrupt and call out in class can’t stay focused or stay quiet. I am often easily frustrated and bored. I can be too talkative and call out without raising my hand and can be impatient. My work needs to be a bit more tidy. Mr Johnston says so anyway.

The upside : 

The upside Where do I start! I am imaginative Creative Fun loving Humorous Enthusiastic Very visual Energetic

More Good stuff : 

More Good stuff Sensitive Understanding Inventive Modest (only kidding)

So what’s the real difference : 

So what’s the real difference Mr Johnston reckons I am just different to so called normal people. Just like all those famous people I mentioned earlier and the other ones you read of in your handout. Here is what some of their teachers said about them!

Thomas Edison : 

Thomas Edison His schoolmaster ”angered by the lad’s inattentive, dreamy distracted behavior…to draw and doodle instead of repeating rote lessons cuffed and ridiculed” the young Edison. Edison’s mother “angrily told the teacher that he didn’t know what he was talking about” and pulled Edison out of school and began home schooling determined that “no formalism would cramp his style…..the full sweep of his imagination.”

Other teachers’ comments and other predictions of doom : 

Other teachers’ comments and other predictions of doom Einstein was told he was stupid and would never learn. He didn’t speak until the age of four and only learned to read at seven Sir Isaac Newton did poorly at school A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney for having “no good ideas”. The young F.W.Woolworth was not allowed to wait on customers because “he didn’t have enough sense” The poet Robert Frost was expelled for daydreaming.

And finally! : 

And finally! Abraham Lincoln entered a war as a captain and finished as a private. The Wright Brothers were told they were nuts if they thought they could make their contraption fly! These people were not well rounded “normal people” who did well in school but their uniqueness creativity and inventiveness allowed them to make a big impact on the world.

So watch this space! : 

So watch this space!

Credits : 

Credits Music!! There was no music Creators Big J (mr johnston) And Corey P The End