Finally someone creates a video about it, that doesnt show energetic children jumping to one spot to the other place

The worst for me was in school when I finished my work later than everyone else and my teacher continuously called me lazy in front of the whole class. And when she caught me daydreaming once, I remember her asking “why do you have ears? To actually use them, or are they just ornaments for your head?” I remember being so frustrated because I KNEW that I knew stuff, I knew that I wasn’t stupid or lazy or trying to be a difficult student, but for some reason I just couldn’t do the work on time, I couldn’t finish my tests, I couldn’t pay attention in class. Finding out I had ADHD was one of the best moments in my life, cuz for the first time, I had someone tell me that I wasn’t inherently lazy or useless

if I only had parents who really care about me.

i love this so much because the dad ends up coming through to save him, despite how he messed up. that's my mom for me. no matter what i've done, my mom has always been there to save me. god damn it this got me so bad.

I lived 47 years with undiagnosed ADD (without the "hyper"). This video is my life in a nutshell.

Gonna show it to my students who want to become elementary teachers and social workers. It gently shows us what it is like to have attention issues. Very nicely done!

I haven't cried about my son's childhood in a long time. This is a beautiful, important piece of work. I would like for every teacher to watch it and maybe, hopefully, find some compassion.

At the beginning, when he saw the letters on the paper moving around, I've heard that's what dyslexia feels like.

My life with attention deficit disorder is pretty much like that, and i'm greatful that someone finally made an animation of it. When I showed this to my mom, she showed it to my sister and she cried at the end. She asked why we would show such sad stuff to her and my mom replied "But that is just like your sisters life...", Thanks for making this. Everytime i need to calm down or start dreaming again I play the music of this in my Head. It's making me smile a lot. Thanks for sharing your talent, it's awesome

This actually helps me see myself with a whole new point of view. I can't help but draw all the time, and I thought it was my fault. The day I saw this, a teacher later asked... "Do you have to be drawing all the time?" Or something like that. It made me ashamed of who I am and everything I've ever drawn.

Damn, I cried when I saw this. I can relate to some of the things the kid was experiencing. It makes me feel more relaxed about who I am.

I relate to this 100 %. I laughed a few times at first because this describes how I've always been. And then I cried at the end when he was sad he missed the bus.

This captured one element of ADHD that isn't typically covered because of how ADHD is viewed by most of society (which is that ADHD is fake and just kids being kids). I was outcast for my mannerisms as a child because they were fluctuating consistently due to lack of ability to cope with the symptoms. The distraction was always down played by anyone looking in, I still struggle to keep my eyes straight ahead at one target even in the middle of long and detailed conversations. Conversations would jump from subject to subject as fast as one or two sentences (and occasionally still do but I have a better grasp on it now), just... when you boiled it down I was a lot to handle for most kids, so they plainly ignored me. This feeling of absolute isolation from my peers led to other problems down the line including trust issues. The video is nice, well animated, and means well... but it doesn't quite grasp what it is fully like to live with and grow up with. TL;DR - there is a real downside to living with ADHD and this video doesn't quite get what it's trying to portray.

I am a 54 year old man. My partner of 25 years is the same age, highly talented, and has ADD. This film is achingly poignant and breaks my heart every time I see it.

I'm totally had ADHD and with hyperactivity type. This video is an example of my childhood experience. 😔

I relate to this on way too many levels. Thanks so much for making this, I now understand how to describe how I've felt every single day at school. You are an extremely awesome, creative, and generally spectacular animator and I can't wait to see more.

I think most of the parents doesn't know ADHD and really hate their children who were having ADHD This animation can teach the Hongkongers that ADHD children are more detail-oriented than us and the most important is the parents must give them support . Awesome vid

Yeah, when I missed the bus after school, there were no 'cell phones'. I just ended up walking home and then getting in trouble because 'where were you'?

Man i cried at the end i'm very jealous seeing a good father and child relationship

If only I had the confidence to talk about my problems instead of just letting others tell me it not a big deal

It's very accurate, I had to deal with the feeling of knowing that something is wrong with me for my entire childhood/teenage years ,but didn't know what that was.

THANK YOU!!!

This video made me tear up. I never was diagnosed with any mental illness but it's pretty clear I have one. I really appreciate you taking the time to share this. Hopefully we can educate the world( and especially poor families) so they know their kid isn't "possessed" by a demon( even though it does seem like it at times) and that they just desperately want to feel normal. And they need their parents help to do that.

Now add Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) which my first grader seven year old son also has, in with the ADD he has as well, and it can be an overwhelming cocktail. What most of us would consider a normal amount of stimulus, say in a classroom environment or a grocery store, where there are sounds often coming from all directions, for SPD kids those stimuli can be magnified 100X, and overwhelm his ability to cope rationally with them. What SPD kids then tend to do, because they often feel such a loss of control in their environment, is they overcompensate by trying to outdo what’s overwhelming them. For example if we are in a busy environment with lots of sounds and people walking around, my son will attempt to feel some control over the environment by either becoming manic, or often times singing louder than the sounds around him. It’s his way of feeling some control over his environment. SPD kids tend to be overwhelmed by, and thus hate loud sounds, certain textures of foods, certain textures of clothing, certain types of sounds, etc. etc. etc. What may feel like a soft cotton t-shirt to you and I, might feel like sandpaper to my son. What to you and I might sound like a crowd of people whispering, to him it might sound like Grand Central Station during rush hour. We’ve tried a few times over the years to take him to the theatre to see movies, but we always end up leaving within five minutes of the movie starting. He simply cannot tolerate the overwhelming stimulus of the loud audio. Couple that with his ADHD and it’s often like asking him to stay focused on his school work while a group of people are throwing tennis balls at him. He’s grown out of a lot of the SPD problems, such as the texture of clothing thing, but he still has a big problem with certain textures and temperatures of food. Over half of his diet is made up of room temperature Ensure shakes, simply because he cannot tolerate the textures and temperatures of most foods. He doesn’t tolerate cold and warm drinks. He doesn’t tolerate cold foods, which pretty much rules out us packing his school lunch for him, so he has the nutrition shake instead. Mix all that with the problems of focus associated with his ADHD, and it makes for some pretty challenging parenting and patience skills. I should add, even though there are the obvious behavior issues associated with the two disabilities, which as you can imagine results in him being reprimanded by his teachers quite a lot in school, he’s a straight “A” student. It takes a lot of extra work at home to maintain his grades, but he’s as intelligent as they come, and just requires a little different approach to having him focus on what he’s expected to do. One last thing, ADHD, ADD and SPD are all recognized by the government as disabilities, and are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If your child has been diagnosed with any of these conditions, and he/she is struggling in school, or even if you feel your child could just do better if certain compensations were made for the disability, then contact the school, ask to meet with the counselor or principal, and with the written diagnosis in hand ask that your child be placed on a 504 Plan; which is a fancy way of saying they note in your child’s file that they are on a 504 Plan because of certain learning disabilities. After that, if suggested by you, the teacher, school administrators or your child’s doctor, certain compensations must be made. By law the school is required to make reasonable compensations or concessions for the child’s disability. For example, if your child has one of these disabilities which causes him/her to have problems focusing while taking tests, if under the 504 Plan YOU suggest that your child be put in a quiet environment where there are no distractions while taking the test, then the school is required to do so under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The suggestion does not need to come from anyone other than you. It does not need to come from a doctor because your doctor has already made the diagnosis and it’s up to you, the school’s administrators and teachers to figure out what works best for your child. I just thought I’d throw that information out there in case anyone might benefit from it.

I can relate to the flower crown situation making the child miss the bus. I'm late to everything because the world is just too beautiful to ignore!

All I got from this is that being creative and self-directed makes you at least somewhat incompatible with today's society, and my depiction is very true. Now leverage that gift to your advantage.

It's Saturday. I woke up late today. Too late in fact to take my adhd medication. I completely missed the point of this video until someone kindly pointed it out in the comments. I feel like a damn wreck when i oversleep like this. Oh. and i just realized it's Sunday.

beautiful. makes me cry every time

Thank you, Erik, for this touching, validating animation.

Great animation! Very moving story, thanks for making this.

Genius! Thank you very much! Your visual style is absolutely mind blowing.

Bra jobbat, verkligen! Väldigt mysig och trevlig är den att kolla på :)

Lovely animation. The kid was awesome, sensitive and creative.

People don’t understand the other effects of ADHD the worthlessness it makes you feel and depression it can lead to which can and often leads to substance addiction and in some cases suicide. This disease can ruin someone’s life it’s no joke, I know because it destroyed relationships and almost my own life. It’s real and can be treated.

It's so painful to realize that a lot of people are suffering, and you're healthy. Alhamdulillah thanks god

I cried the first time now I watch it when I feel down about myself and my adhd the tone sends a sympathetic message to me but I don't have adhd on a level like that but I've even done origami AFTER tests it is an amazing animation and I loved it so much thanks for making it.

That's Dimitri, my 10-year-old student. Thank you for sharing this amazing film.

My 6yr old son... Love him to bits.

Posted this below as a response to somebody...but i wanted to share it with everyone. I actually related to this video a lot. I have severe ADD, helped now as I am older with medicine and therapy. In the first scene, the words are a jumble because reading something with ADD is extremely difficult. If you can't focus yourself, sometimes what your reading becomes a whole jumbled mess when you get distracted every other sentence and forgot where you left off, or when there are thoughts in your head that completely distract you from what you're reading. Your eyes are scanning the page but all of a sudden you are several paragraphs ahead with no recollection of what you just scanned over. Children with ADHD are extremely creative, and will sometimes prefer to do creative things that interest them and hold their attention instead of doing what they are supposed to. Such as: building a paper model out of their test, playing with their food inappropriately, building flower crowns instead of catching the bus, and drawing instead of taking notes. Sometimes, then, being distracted will cause you to make mistakes, like missing your bus. Then it seems like everything starts to go wrong, it starts to rain, you try to call for your mom or dad to help you but you drop your phone in a puddle and it shorts out. The frustration and overwhelming-ness can run so high at those points that even adults will find themselves crying. But in the end, if you have people there to support you, the tough times don't seem so bad. You will have the tough times, but everything will work out in the end, and the bad times wont last forever. That is what I got out of this film.

The thing about the bus is so true. I once missed my flight in Hong Kong because of hyperfocusing and had to pay 800 dollars I didn't have to avoid getting stuck in a foreign country when I had work the next day. Thankfully my dad bailed me out. Thank you dad!

this is kinda what it feels like school is the wort part mabey u cant focaus and u just cant do it u HAVE to move i sometimes move position for hours

Very,emotional Short Film

As some one with ADHD it's hard to focus on something important anything will catch your eye it's really hard for us so this video is very true

I really enjoyed this video. I can really relate to it.

I honestly think gymnastics is the best thing somone with adhd can do. It involves so much movement and very tangible progress. It's my favourite sport I've ever done

woah, your an amazing animator, can't wait to see more, subbed :)

I really love this video. The boy is exact the same as me . I think that Maybe I have ads (because my brothers have it too) but I'm not sure. I would really like to see a video like this but from the perspective of a ...."normal" person. For me this video is "normal" so I don't know the difference toward real "normal" people and this

OMG YES! klart en av mina favorit animation kort filmer :D

I've had ADD all my life and wasn't diagnosed until well into my 40s. I don't like that they put ADD and ADHD under the same umbrella - ADHD. I'm like this kid - no hyperactivity just difficulty coping and getting things done. And years of depression.

Happened to me in second grade when i missed my drive back after school. I didn't know what to do so i was just sitting on the bench for hours waiting for i don't know what. I think it was raining too but im not sure. Someone helped me and called the police. The policemen gave me a sandwich and took me home. They were so nice to me 😢 This great film is a very good description of the type of ADHD that i have (ADD).

I was diagnosed at 12 with ADHD. At 16 my meds were upped and dangerously prescribed. It almost killed me. From that point forward I have not used medications. I am now 36. For 20 years without medications, i have done amazing things. It's about retraining your mind, eating healthy, and exercising.

Denna film är fantastisk på så många sätt och jag har god användning av den i mitt arbete som skolpsykolog. Den skapar förståelse och empati, precis det en vill väcka under ex en föreläsning

I actually cried near the end. I'm not entirely sure why.

What was frustrating for me, is I’d have these fits of absolute brilliance but never about what was in front of me. Spent my entire time at school being convinced I was stupid just because I couldn’t focus. I was never the hyper kid, I was the one who daydreamed empires while criticized for not designing shoes when asked.

The bus scene is so accurate!My good thing was that used to hyperfocus at school,but only during math class :p Unfortunately,I no longer hyperfocus that often at uni although math is all I do...but I still miss my bus :/

2:20 reminded me of how I was watching queen ants looking for a good place to lay eggs while i was waiting for a friend :) Just a weirdo on the trainstation

Great. Nice story and animation.

Hej! Älskar denna video, kan du göra en om Asperger syndrom? (:

If only my teachers saw something like this and were educated on adhd…. My life would be so completely different🥺

Whether the person has ADHD or not, Jesus still loves the person

Lovely film!

i wish i had someone like this

this awesom!!! really great!

Hit like who missed to focus on video completely ! #ADHD😣😣😭

Adhd gang where you at boyzzz😉

Wow this is amazing

absolute right!

this is so sweet i love it.

Great video! I've live with ADHD all my life, and have literally gone ballistic when people say it's not real. But it's something I have also come to live with, and learn as best I can. I will probably have it till the day I die (some can grow out of it). (I actually got a flash back where I would take a Hotwheel to play with during my tests if I needed to fidget) But that being said it does carry it's positive sides. OF course I do advise any parent who believes their kids has it to keep them off any medication possible. I am on Concerta and am mentally addicted to it, unable to go off it due to relapse and fear of long term side effects.

wow man, this video fucked me up haha. By the end I was in tears and anxious.

My school experience was before cell phones. But it didn't matter as my parents wouldn't have picked me up anyway. The were not supportive and always critical of me.

as a person with adhd, I find this relatable,

This is true the whole video is real truth how we feel I have ADHD it's not well cants say it's not good but it's not great

This is me. What else needs to be said?

I didn’t know I had this until I knew what it means know

I cried watching this, i feel so understood

Tack❤️

Damn this is sad

Köszönöm.

Why does this sound like asmr 😭

So is Hyperactivity something like being creative and thinking differently? Because this video explains how I behave and I'm totally not too active.

I'm not sure what I was meant to learn from this. That was just school. Isn't it the same for everyone? OK so playing with your food before you are seated is a bit odd, and I would have gone into the bus and missed my stop instead, but in general usual school day. And now I am sad because I had to think of that fecking place.

jag skulle vilja se en kort film som har en som mig alltså grov ADHD, grov ADD, ilske problem, och autims. fy fan vad konstigt det skulle vara

This is ADHD in a nutshell

todos somos diferentes....

Vacker film!

i am crying😥😢😑

😢

God I know how this feels.. I had no friends in elementary school due to ADHD and I was constant bullied and framed for doing things I didn’t do.

#RespektArtClip merci euc,das ist #sidäfiin und #antifrost gefällt der beitrag.

thats the girl from spegelbarn

o.k Se que mi hijo tiene TDAH y lo más difícil es que la gente no sabe nada y entonces surge la incomprensión. todos piensan que lo haces intencionalmente y ta etiquetan. Se sufre y se llora junto con tu hijo.

The real message is at 3:40... :'(

Wnderful :)

0:48 Young Korwin

Ezek a képességek általában vannak jelen mind amellett , hogy nem az adott feladat megoldására koncentrálnak vagy minden ADHD-s gyermekre igazak ? Mert a film azt is bemutatja , hogy kézügyessége kreativitása jelen van amely valamilyen logikai gondolkodásra utal a saját gondolataiból kialakított cselekvéseiből következtetve. Cselekvései összerendezettek. Persze más területen a szétszórtság a figyelemzavar az valamilyen agyban lezajló zavarra utal amelyet az orvosok majd gyógyszerrel próbálnak javítani , mint autista gyerekeknél akiknél gyógyszer csak kísérlet.

excuse me , I really want to know that how to see the boy have ADHD ? he doesn't hyperativity or attention-deficit . he more like ASD or IDD(intellectual Developmental disorder.

1:30 melephant

So I have ADHD? D:

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