in this video were covering in ninety eighty HD symptoms that you must know so
that by the end of the video you'll know if you have ADHD and you'll know how to
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don't know if it'll be VidCon or the autism show TCC asked what is your
favorite video game I'd say my favorite video game has to be Super Mario
Brothers 3 for the Nintendo or the knives and the tainment system cuz I'm
like super old and stuff but my favorite game probably most recently is like
Pokemon for the Gameboy I'm not leavin not recent that's like 20 years ago but
still pokemon red for the Gameboy it's not the best game in the entire universe
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below so ADHD symptoms like I wanted to do this video for such a long time now
I'm doing this it's pretty awesome if you have like ADHD or autism or
anything please let me know in the comments below cuz I like to know I'd
like to have a conversation and open it up with you guys okay so we're gonna go
through nine ADHD symptoms that you guys should know and this isn't quite fun
it's gonna good to break them all down and go through these I'm yeah let's
let's get straight into it okay so number one is having a short attention
span I'm being easily distracted I mean this is just it is just typical
anybody who has a ADHD on those about ADHD they'll know that like it's easy to
get distracted I find it super difficult to keep flow of conversations especially
when there's a lot of people going on and also when there's a lot of people
going on their conversations talking at you and then they're saying something
else and you've got to try and keep track of this conversation and not
present a conversation and then try and think your own conversation like this is
so difficult and another thing is like somebody say to you like oh you'll have
to do this task and then do the other one and then I'll get too carried away
I'll try and do two tasks at once so if I'm like edit in a video I'll try and
edit thumbnail at the same time I'm looking and I haven't haven't finished
at it in the video yet well I mean at another thumbnail give this video a
thumbs up if you can relate to this guy I mean that seriously this is just super
like typical of ADHD okay so number two is appearing forgetful or losing things
I mean forgetful it is another word for me so careful it's just me all over
because like I have an issue kind of like remembering to do things so if
somebody said to my girlfriend says ah damn you need to remember today to phone
the doctors and make this appointment or awesome not like to to your therapist or
whatever I'm like yeah okay okay I remember I remember
and I'm like like days will go by don't you be like did you send that letter
I'll be like what we're losing things as well put something down somewhere I'll
be like right I'm gonna get this again and then I'll forget all about it now
this is quite interesting because this conflicts with Asperger syndrome because
I have both conditions I have a really good long-term memory but a terrible
short-term memory so when they say remember to do this I'll forget it all
the time but if I've done something I'll always remember what I've done which is
quite difficult and it's it's hard on to explain I did explain this in a video
and I'll try and link that in a cab above so you guys can check that out but
I did it kind of explained the shots a memory issue with autism but it may be a
cool one for you to look into as well since you're researching ADHD anyway
okay so number three is I've been able to stick to tasks that seem a bit
tedious and time-consuming so if you're spending a lot of time having to sell a
lot of time to do a task then this is gonna be really challenging and you may
not be able to actually keep on track with that just one task like if someone
said okay well we're gonna have to paint every single tile
on this floor okay go to in six hours I mean just instantly like do want I'll
and then I'd be like okay doing something else I'd be like on my phone
trying to write out like a new video idea or like trying to think of like and
you picture I want to do for my Instagram or something so it's always
really interesting to to think about trying to stay on on topic or started
trying to stay on that task for more than a few moments because yeah it's
just kind of like your attention is going everywhere which brings me to
number four which is constantly changing task or activity now I can get super
bored super easy and then have to switch tasks like so if we do something so
sometimes oh I want to listen to this song I'm like okay I'll into a few
minutes of it and I skip the song so next song and then listen tell you a few
lines of that I'll skip through the song and everyone's like you like the worst
DJ ever hit me sitting on the couch friends you sit and then you down there
you want a DJ I've come out on the road I'm like yeah man I'm gonna smash out
some sweet tunes on my ipod I got my iPhone on me we're gonna go through this
total get psyched mix okay cool so yeah just put on sound of one and play
through okay cool so this is a song that one oh man you got me a song number two
on our the cartoon this is rubbish and let me fast-forward it to the bottom and
the middle eight in number three is awesome okay let's go to number four oh
man the last song and this album is awesome I'm gonna skip to it dude like
why can't you stick to just one thing like just play the thing all the way
through so yeah changing two things the not been able to stick to a task
activity for longer than a few moments is definitely a symptom so number five
is an interesting one it's having a difficulty organizing tasks now this is
kind of comorbid with Asperger syndrome I have an issue with organization and I
need actually help and I'm organizing stuff but with ADHD you have a
difficulty in organizing as well and it's a difficulty in organizing yourself
to be able to do tasks so you know the thing I've seen about switching between
different tasks well if you're trying to switch between different tasks and in
your job is to organize which task you're gonna do first
I mean I forget it I have like numerous amounts of different scheduling planners
and stuff on my partner she still has to come up and schedule my workloads with
me because I just can't do these is super difficult okay just a little heads
up if you're interested in learning about autism or Asperger's syndrome I've
put a video in the countif over here so you guys can check out some cool videos
on if you have autism always check if
somebody has autism because I get a few researching ADHD that maybe you'll be
interested in autism okay so number six is constantly fidgeting now this is
quite an interesting one I mean fidget spinners are amazing I
remember I was doing a conference an autism conference in North Wales and it
was a guy on performing here at ADHD and he was talking about fidgeting and he
had a Pidgey spinner in his hand the whole time and he played to this all the
time no I have a fidgeter spinner as well but one of the things I like to do
is like tap my fingers and in autism this is clusters like stimming you'll
spin by like moving your hands and stuff like that but it's kind of like a pitch
if me so I'm always like drumming or I'm always like circling my fingers around
something or I'm always like tapping my hands together my fingers together and
this again is it is classed as thinning but it's also this like urge to like not
be able to sit still which is very very common in ADHD and it's one of those
things that you can just pick out and say like okay that person may have ADHD
I mean these are common traits that you can't usually see okay so number seven
is excessively talking now again because it's comorbid with Asperger's syndrome I
talk a lot I mean as you guys know having this video right now but I just
love talking out people and talk about stuff and with Asperger syndrome people
have a specific high topic of interest I don't know an intense amount of
information about so if you mix that with ADHD and excessive talking you get
this kind of like trained speech of spiel about something that this person
is really passionate about now I could go on talking about SEO and youtube
algorithms for hours and hours and hours I also like talking about aliens and I
like also talking about music and different ways to do things and like how
to build stuff and like how to like I don't know just make cool stuff for the
internet and a little all I stuff like I talk about for hours and hours and yeah
this must really triggered a lot of people but it's a common symptom of ADHD
so just bet it's in mind if you can't try and assess somebody or you may
believe you may have ADHD yourself okay so number eight is interrupting a
conversation a lot of people will find like conversations you know it's hard to
stay on track of the conversations because of this if you have ADHD and
you're finding out how to keep on track with all these conversations then you
forget that the conversations are actually taking place and up their
importance as peoples you just kind of start your conversation but it's
interrupting their conversation which is Super's
it's difficult to get around I know it sounds a bit crazy but this is like one
of those those things where you realize it want somebody points it out and it's
very very common and it's definitely one of those ways that you can kind of
figure out all this person isn't being rude or obnoxious they just they have
this condition this neurological condition and it's not really that fall
that that's just how they are and that's cool because you have to kind
of accept people as they are and who they are is what we do on here we're an
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family okay so number nine is little to no sense of danger and I find it's one
quite interesting is because when people with ADHD you get a super wrapped up and
hiked in something they hyped in the moment of doing that thing and they're
just like just buzzing off life right in that moment but their sense of danger
chemicals on the window they may fall over and hurt themselves they may not
realize that the thing they're doing could become potentially dangerous it
could be that something that they've decided to go and do could be dangerous
and as people who are from the outside looking in they'll be like oh my god I
was dangerous but the person who is ADHD in that moment in time is kind of not
really thinking about those things that just like wrapped up in this kind of
event are they're doing and they're ready to move on to the next event so
danger isn't then at one priority and it's not because that they're they can't
sense danger it's just that they they're not really thinking about danger
actively if that makes sense okay so I know I said I was gonna do plenty nine
but everybody knows me this one as a bonus one just for you guys and this is
number ten so number ten is a funny one I had a conversation in the car with my
girlfriend just today and and it's being unable to wait your turn
so people with ADHD have this issue with waiting their turn not because they're
trying to like queue jump up push in front of the line it's nothing like that
that it's just that they have this uncommon kind of like you can't just a
cell and do that one thing on wait wait wait wait wait because you I don't know
you're already ahead of the game you can see what you need to do and it's so much
easier if you just go there and do it and um and people don't like that
obviously and it's a huge issue and I remember a couple weeks ago we I think
we were like lining up to get like tea or coffee or something we were lining up
to get something from like somewhere out and I was like I couldn't wait to just
get this thing side and my girlfriend it was like just just wait your turn what
is wrong she like said this as you said like couple of times and I was like man
like I just really want to get his task done and it's really interesting
because she was like one it was going on but okay it's easy to forget that a
person has a condition and that it comes with all these different types of things
and you have to kind of be actively think about them all the time and it's
really difficult to think about all these things all the time and you can't
expect anybody to do that so I thought I was really really funny and that was
number 10 so I really enjoyed looking at those and made me feel a certain way and
yeah I think it was pretty cool so just remember to subscribe if you want to
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