Hello, brains!
I tell you that because, if you think,
you were not the ones who decided to come here today.
It was your brain.
Whether you decide to walk, ride, ride or ride a bike
That decision brought your brain.
Behavior, all behavior, is influenced by the brain.
This is the story of my brain.
So I was a smart kid.
At 18 months, I spoke in full sentences.
In the third grade, I successfully mastered standardized high school tests.
I’ve had, all my teachers have matched, so much potential.
I was also bothered.
I did not have a lot, anyway, a friend
except in books.
I was easily overwhelmed. I was dreaming about teaching.
I’ve always lost things.
And to push my brain to focus on anything I did not care about
It was like trying to sneak into the wall.
But I was smart, so no one was worried.
Up to the higher grades,
When I became responsible to come in time for classes
and to remind myself of my own homework,
when she was smart she was not enough enough, and my grades began to suffer.
Mom took me to the doctor and after extensive research,
I was diagnosed with hyperactivity disorder with lack of attention
ADHD.
If you are unfamiliar with ADHD, you have three basic features;
negligence, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.
Some people with ADHD have more traits of inattentive type.
These are dreamers, wanderers.
Some have more hyperactive-impulsive type properties.
These are children who are usually diagnosed early.
(Laughter)
But the most common type is a combination of both.
(Laughter)
My doctor and my parents decided that, in view of my new diagnosis,
perhaps cure with the stimulus to succeed where punishment and prodigy are not.
And so I tried, and it was successful.
The first time I took the medicine,
It was like I was wearing glasses
and I realize I can see it without screaming.
I could concentrate.
And without changing anything, my average jumped for the whole number.
Honestly, it was amazing.
At 14, I had the friends I liked.
At 15, I announced my first song.
I had a boyfriend.
By 17, I knew I wanted to be a journalist.
The local college had a program that guaranteed reception at the USC.
They had a really good journalistic direction.
So I enrolled a local college and started going to classes.
I got in with my boyfriend.
Things were great,
until they ceased to be.
I started having a problem getting to school on time.
I was in the statistics,
but I forgot to report in time, so I never got a review.
I started teaching that I could help my boyfriend’s career,
but I completely lost the notion of her.
I never entered the USC.
At 21, I was out of college and moved home.
In the next 10 years, I hired and gave up or fired 15 jobs.
I’ve ruined the bank rating.
I was married,
and unleashed within a year.
At one point, I was 32,
and I had no idea what I’m doing in my life,
apart from reading self-help books that did not help.
What happened to all these potentials?
Did not I try? Not! I was doing more than anyone I knew.
I did not even have time for friends.
I was so busy.
Still, I had the potential.
So my failure was my fault.
I just did not do what I needed,
And, frankly, I was tired of trying,
striving more in life than anyone else
and lagging more and more.
At that point, I could give up everything,
I could have decided that everyone who thought I had the potential was wrong.
But I did not,
because I knew my behavior was what brought me there,
Behavior is under the influence of the brain.
And my brain has ADHD.
Watching my behavior, I knew:
even with drugs, even as an adult,
my ADHD has still hindered my life,
and what I should know is how and why,
and more importantly, what I can do about it.
I started exploring,
and found a lot of great information.
I have found a lot of bad information, but that is the topic for the second speech.
But good information can be found.
Pages. podcasts, conversations, by researchers and experts;
books that would be much more than helpful
but those of self-help I used which were written for normal –
therefore, there is no normal neurotic brains.
Much of what I found, was either super technical
or it seemed to be written for parents and teachers
Who are trying to deal with children with ADHD
There was not much to target us,
people who have ADHD.
And so I started a YouTube channel.
I had no idea how to do it.
But I started to post on the YouTube channel
I almost called him “How do ADHDs”
Because that was almost all I knew.
But my boyfriend, Edward, answered me.
It seems that many people need help in understanding ADHD
Including, perhaps especially, those who actually have it.
Nor was I an exception.
I thought ADHD was somehow the same in all.
I thought the thing was mostly negligent.
I thought ADHD might be the cause of my life’s failure.
And I thought I had to change myself to become successful.
I could not be successful and remain my own.
Spoiler: I was wrong.
Let’s go back for a moment, what brought us here today:
Brain.
It turned out to be important to understand the brain you are working with
And this is important to the brain of your employees, students,
your child and lifestyle.
Or your own.
ADHD affects between 5 and 8% of the world’s population.
Which means that, statistically speaking,
we are somewhere between 37 and 60 just in this hall.
You can not only recognize us by watching, but it’s fun to see the experiments.
(Laughter)
So at some point, you will meet someone with ADHD,
you will work with them, you will give birth to them,
or fall in love with them.
Probably already.
And, at some point, you will wonder,
“What’s going on in their head?”
And, after two years of ADHD study and lifelong experience with it,
after having had the honor to associate with scientists, and doctors,
and ADHD experts, and tens of thousands of ADHD brain around the world,
what can I say to help you understand ADHD?
Just to know, many of them helped prepare this speech.
First, it’s real.
It is not a matter of parenthood, or lack of discipline.
ADHD is a neurorasian disorder.
It is currently the most prominent mental state,
and there are actually measurable differences in the brain.
These differences are greater in children, but, for most people, they never disappear.
In other words, adults also have ADHD.
The rate of ADHD diagnosis increases,
it is not because of the growth of sugar or technology intake,
or less spotting,
no it’s not,
nothing more than drowning people are related to Nicolas Cage.
Correlation does not mean causality.
These are the right figures.
(Laughter)
This is because of the understanding that ADHD exists,
that girls, adults and gifted students may also have,
and ironically, misunderstanding
that hyperactivity, disobedience, or difficulty in school
does not mean you have ADHD.
ADHD is more serious than I thought.
Primary characteristics – negligence, impulsivity and hyperactivity –
does not sound so serious, nor did I consider them to be such,
but, in real life, it means that people experience more accidents,
have greater ability to be dismissed, divorced,
significantly greater ability to fight with addiction.
I learned ADHD in the spectrum.
Lift your hand if you’ve ever lost the keys,
or began to dream in the middle of the lecture.
If you do not stretch your hand,
I suppose you started dreaming in the middle of this.
(Laughter)
The thing is, though all occasionally experiencing ADHD symptoms,
The right diagnosis is based on how many of these symptoms
seriously and chronically affect more areas of your life.
Just as you can be sad and do not have depression,
You can be disrupted and have no ADHD.
And just as you can have mild or strong depression,
ADHD can range from mild to strong.
I also learned that ADHD is a terrible name for ADHD.
It creates a great mess.
We have no lack of attention!
What we have trouble with is regulation of attention.
As ADHD trainer Brett Thornhill describes,
It’s as if your brain constantly switches between 30 different channels
and someone else has a steering wheel.
Sometimes we have problems focusing at all,
and sometimes we get caught on the channel and we can not get away from it,
which in real life may seem like we do not want to write a task
because they would play a video game, and that, sometimes it is true.
But in reality many times we want to be able to focus,
and we try and just do not go.
The latest findings say that this difficulty
has to do with how the brain creates and processes neurotransmitters,
as dopamine and norepinephrine.
I learned ADHD can heal.
Stimulating drugs stimulate these neurotransmitters,
and therefore help us focus.
They are very effective in about 80% of people with ADHD.
And I learned that medications are not enough.
ADHD affects much more than the focus.
It exacerbates executive functions such as planning, prioritizing,
and our ability to maintain focus on the goal.
It affects our ability to regulate our emotions, behavior, sleep.
It’s not a program in our brain that works differently;
It’s the whole operating system.
It can affect every aspect of our life.
There are loads of strategies that can help.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Coaching, Meditation or Regular Exercise
can be of great help in understanding your brain.
I knew I had problems focusing, and my medication helped me.
What I did not know was that feeling that I was constantly overwhelmed
it is related to poor work memory, and the writing of the list helps;
or that the reason I stayed late did not mean that it did not matter to me,
but because ADHDs have a distorted sense of time,
and that using timers can help me learn how things actually last.
I was basically expecting to learn just what I learned:
that ADHD is real;
that it is important to deal with it;
and that the drugs are not enough.
What I did not expect to learn:
that I am not alone;
that Imam ADHD tribe;
which was a change when I joined them.
In every country there are people with ADHD,
in every culture in the world.
Yes, even in France.
(Laughter)
This tribe is phenomenal.
By comparing with people with neurotic brains,
I felt very bad.
Why can not they keep the house clean or finish the project on time,
instead of waiting for the last second?
But seeing good things in other ADHD brains
helped me in recognizing and respecting my personal strength,
those I could not see because I was just staring at my weaknesses,
and that’s what I’ve been doing for decades.
But ADHD brains have a lot to offer to the world.
We tend to be generous, entertaining, creative.
300% is more likely that ADHDs will start their work.
We not only think outside the box;
we are often unaware that the box exists.
(Laughter)
It may be difficult for us when our brains are not engaged,
but ADHD brains are great at solving tasks that are urgent,
when working with new ideas,
in combating challenging problems,
and in addressing problems that are of personal interest.
This YouTube career I was in was all these things.
At 32, I was divorced, unhappy,
and I had no idea what to do with my life.
With 33, I started my own business, and I joined ADHD experts.
So far, with 34,
I have those volunteers who help me with the channel.
I’m fascinated with this fantastic man who helps me in producing the channel,
works with me, just releases slides –
and, as we have discovered, also has ADHD.
(Laughter)
I’m working to get to school
that children do not have to wait until 32 years
to learn something about their brains.
And I keep the first TEDx speech here before you.
(Exclamations) (applause)
But wait! There is still! Wait.
(Applause)
This sounded like the end of the speech. I’m sorry but it is not.
(Laughter)
I am happier and more successful than ever in life.
And what happened? How did I realize my potential?
Three things: first, I learned about my brain, my ADHD brain,
and by connecting to others who have it.
If you judge the fish by its ability to climb the tree,
he will live all his life in the belief that he is stupid,
unless he accidentally talks to another fish
and realize that the fish are not good at climbing trees, and that’s fine,
The ocean is great.
Two, in learning about my brain,
I got into a job that occupies it.
If you dedicate your time trying to learn the fish to climb on trees,
you will never find out how far you can swim.
It turned out that they could be theirs and still be successful.
I just had to find my ocean.
Third, I’ve learned strategies for the challenges I’m still struggling with.
I have no fish analogy for this, I’m sorry.
(Laughter)
I suppose I learned to swim.
Once you understand what your brains are,
you can find solutions for them.
Once you overcome the stereotypes and assumptions about people with ADHD,
and prokopate a little deeper, you will understand what ADHD actually is.
These are not people who can not stop crying or be disturbed.
These are brains that are chronically stimulated,
who are trying to reach the basic level of stimulation that all brains need.
It is not a matter of delay or disrespect.
The issue is in difficulty in executive functions that make it difficult to start a business.
And it’s not a matter of laziness or not investing enough effort.
These are children and adults struggling for success
with a brain that does not always want to cooperate
in a society that was not built for them.
Company is our user manual.
We learn how our brains and bodies work by watching those around us.
And if your job is different, you can feel like you’re not riding.
What I’m trying to do is reach out to these people
wherever they are in the world. and tell them,
“You’re not stupid. You’re not stupid.
You do not have to work harder. You’re not a broken version of normal.
You are different, you are wonderful,
and you are not alone. “
If you do not have ADHD yourself, you probably know someone who has it.
That’s your employees, your boss, your friend, they’re in this room.
I hope this speech will help you understand them better.
If you have ADHD,
welcome to the tribe.
(Applause) (Ascension)
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