Name: How To Know If You Have ADHD
Uploaded: 2016-08-13T21:59:58.000Z
Duration: 5 min 12 s
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Hey guys! So, as you can tell from the title,

Future simple

this video is gonna be about how to know if you have ADHD or not.

And for those of you that don't already know,

ADHD is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

But the reason I'm making  this video is because I feel

like a lot of people these days say or they think they have ADHD,

but that's only because they  don't know what it's really like to have it.

As a little kid I was diagnosed with it,  but I never took any medicine

for it, so I never knew  what normal people thought like.

I can't stand when people  say that ADHD is not a real thing

and that it's just an excuse for  lazy people to blame their laziness on.

But what I can't stand  even more is that when people

actually do use it as an excuse, even when they don't have it,

just because they  didn't do well in school

But, really, there's no excuse  because I grew up with it

and I didn't take any medication  for it and I still got all A's and B's.

So after watching this video, if you can honestly say

that you relate to more of these  things than not, then chances are--

I mean, I'm no doctor,  but your brain is probably

I'm gonna be giving  you guys actual examples,

They'll be talking and then, all of a sudden, pretend

kind of like what I'm about to do right...

I mean, even I made that joke,  but only as a joke

because that is such a huge exaggeration.

It's really nothing like that.  Most of the time.

it's probably just  because you don't have it.

But, trust me, they're all real.  They actually do happen.

I would know because, sadly, they're all my personal experiences.

So without further ado,  and no more hesitation,

here are some real examples to help you guys know

I'm not even kidding. There's an actual butterfly right there.

See how many of these  you can relate to. Go!

You meet someone new  and then five seconds after

they've introduced themselves,  you already forgot their name.

whenever you're reading something,  like a book or a textbook,

you'll read every  single word on the page,

yet five pages down the road you have no idea

and rather than paying attention to what they're saying,

you trying to decide  which eye you normally look at.

Or maybe you're supposed  to look at the face as a whole,

because now all you see is a bunch of face parts.

To you, there's  no such thing as sitting still.

You don't realize it until  someone tells you to stop,

but you either have been  rapidly shaking your leg,

tapping your hands or nodding your head to music that isn't there,

or playing with whatever is  currently in your hands, like a cellphone.

You go and take a five minute  Facebook break from work,

but when you come  back it's an hour later!

Sometimes you have to remind yourself to smile

when you're with people,  and not because you don't like them

or because you're upset-- it's because you have a bunch

of other thoughts going through your head that aren't smile-worthy.

No matter how hard you try  or how important the call is,

you have to be doing something  else at the same time.

You don't intentionally procrastinate,  you're just most productive

You work best when  you're under pressure!

Again, you don't intentionally procrastinate,

but you can never decide  what you want from a menu

until you're under pressure because the waiter just got to you.

'cause you're always jumping from one thing to the next!

You leave your room to go  get your phone that you forgot

in the kitchen, but when  you come back, all you have

is a cup of water, snacks and pretty much everything that's not your phone.

A lot of the times that you're on the phone with people,

you freak out because  you can't find your phone.

You're not sure if you just came  downstairs or if you're about to go up.

You force yourself to burp  to remember what you had for lunch.

When somebody tells you  to think about one specific thing,

you can't because now you're  thinking about thinking about things,

causing you to not think about what  you're supposed to be thinking about.

You text something that makes absolutely no sense

because someone was talking to you and you write out

You can remember a full phone number by repeating the numbers

in your head, but the moment  you start putting it into the keypad,

all the different sounds from the keytones throw you off and you forget.

You have to buy a lot of shampoo  because when you're in the shower

you have the most thoughts,  and you don't even realize

that you just washed your hair three times.

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