Doctor REACTS to The Simpsons | Is This a Sign of ADHD? | Dr Elliott 

As someone who is autistic and has ADHD, so much of the emotional content of this episode rings so true.

Yes! How is Bart supposed to know what is different about himself, especially when he's told over and over again by the adults in his life that he's just stupid? I completely missed this when I watched the Simpsons as a kid, but rewatching this as an adult (and someone who is looking into ADHD for myself...) it's heartbreaking.

The best line the Simpson ever did on this was when Bart was in a special needs class: “Let me get this straight: we're behind the rest of our class and we're going to catch up to them by going slower than they are?” My school life in a nutshell.

You should do the Hey Arnold episode Helga on the couch. Shes ordered to go to a therapist by the school.

"This is as good as I can do and I still failed" **ALWAYS** get's me. I know this feeling and it is devastating.

This has always been my favorite episode of the Simpsons; it brings me right back to being 7, seeing it for the first time and bursting into tears unable to express why. I do not have ADHD, but I struggled against undiagnosed autism all through school. In the 90's, it was not considered something a girl could experience. The teachers treated me like I was lazy and irresponsible. I quite literally could not focus on anything that was not my hyper fixation. The adults all said they "knew" I was smart, but they couldn't understand why I "acted so stupid." I tried to tell my parents that I thought I had a learning disorder, and they told me I wasn't trying hard enough. I was in the nurse's office every day, trying to tell her I had thrown up and needed to go home. The administration thought I was cutting class because I was a "bad kid" and I was dealt with accordingly.

I'd never seen the old episodes of the Simpsons until very recently. I'd always thought "everyone who says the new episodes have lost their heart must be wrong" but it's so true! Watching episodes from the earlier seasons almost had me crying during some moments... Lisa grieving over Bleeding Gums Murphy, Homer covering his workplace with photos of Maggie... watching these episodes as an adult for the first time hits hard.

This video just gave me chills. I struggled with this all of my life, even more in college. Seeing others with 4.0 GPA while I’m struggling to keep my 3.0 just hurts so badly, a few days of heightened productivity followed by severe lack of motivation. After seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist and hearing them tell me that the symptoms look like ADHD and I’m not just lazy or dumb. It just takes a huge weight off my shoulders but I still am working through it. To my fellow girls who have these issues: You’re not alone, go get some help.

As someone with dyslexia and ADHD, I was told by many people that I just needed to try harder in order to succeed at school, and told by others I was dumb. The reality is that once I was treated for my ADHD, I realized how hard I'd been struggling. As a kid, this episode hit hard, because it was relatable - trying so, so hard to focus and being unable to, working and never being able to achieve what others did, breaking down crying from frustration - and honestly it hits hard as an adult.

One thing I think really needs to be mentioned whenever discussing ADHD and school is poor grade are not indicative of ADHD, and neither is perceived lack of intelligence. When I was looking for a diagnosis I was so repeatedly told, you can't have ADHD you're successful/work somewhere smart people work. That was crushing

Was diagnosed with ADHD at 25. I spent my whole school experience thinking I was just stupid. I didn't know why I couldn't pay attention and certain information just wouldn't stay in my brain. Or why I would get "stuck" on things that I did find interesting.

The sad irony especially in education with ADHD ( as I found myself when I was young) is despite being called and considered a failure constantly, it was I who was being failed constantly by the school, the GP, the people who were supposed to support and help me instead I was labelled "Problematic, disinterested, lazy, unfocused, disruptive." when I had a lot of other mental health problems going on, and that was one of the things that set a trajectory for a portion of my life, and it's still happening today to other kids, it's heart breaking =(

Love the episode, loved the analysis. I just think it's a shame you dont include a shoutout for Miss Krabappel. We see her so often just barely keeping on top of her job in the show. And then she marks his then and there. And he fails, and she sympathises, supports, and makes the point that he has made progress. Then he links his experience to the experiences others had in history - a genuine connection with the subject - and she leaps on it, gives him one point of extra credit. She could so easily have been a jobsworth. Or given him the extra point to make her own life easier. She shows a strong professional ethic in that moment. And ok, Bart's immediate feeling is relief and exultation. But he may well go on to remember how he just barely passed - but did pass - that one times, because he didn't immediately stop caring about what he'd learned the second the exam was over.

Have you seen the episode of *King of the Hill* where Bobby takes Ritalin? It's hilarious, he's so *focused* that he practically predicts the future! "There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad... and there it goes." 😆

On this subject, Malcolm in the Middle would be a good one to do too : many signs of ADHD in Al and several of the kids! Probably many things to discuss about antisocial behaviors as well : several of the kids display antisocial behaviors, but in different ways, and there are some biological factors being alluded too (genetics with the grandma, prenatal behaviors) and environmental factors (the authoritarian/abusive parenting style, the bullying).

This episode has one of the great lines... When Bart prays for a miracle, anything to get him out of having to do the test tomorrow... Lisa observes "prayer, the last refuge of a scoundrel"

Those episodes with Bart struggling with school really did resonate with me. I struggled so hard in school and nobody could figure out why. They just thought I was lazy and just did not want to do the work. I do not remember any cognitive testing being done, like ADHD or whatnot. I think that was not an option my mother was willing to face. Instead, I was taken out of some classes, put in a special type of class in a room off the side of the school stage, and made to play board games. I don't know why this was done and I still struggled through school until college. But then, I did better in college than in 12 years of primary school. I do remember being frustrated with students being seated in alphabetical order. My name was R and so I was always, always, always put in the back. In a classroom of 40 students, it was next near impossible to see or hear anything going on at the front of the class or even being able to participate in class. Go figure that the more successful students were the ones sitting near the front.

I just love how you educate us on every issue raised in the episode, it goes waay beyond a "reaction video"!

"You're the professionals, you should be figuring it out" And a flashback starts in my brain of my 6 years of middle and high school when I've been relentlessly bullied and the solution offered to me was "You've got to study more. Mmh, better if we restrict your pc usage", Reportedly my parents tried to send me to a psychologist ONCE and gave up because I was not talking, having lost all faith in adults and all.

Oh wow, I forgot about this episode. Rewatching this, it also shows me how the system also fails and puts blame on the student. Man, I went through some of the same things as Bart when I was a kid. Mainly constantly daydreaming and not listening or understanding what the teacher said. Unfortunately, I didn’t get help. I didn’t even find out I had ADHD in my late 20's. It explained so much why I struggled as a kid. While I'm glad the episode has a good ending, I still feel uneasy because the systems really didn't do or help much. Except for Ms. Krabappel. I know I'm probably reading in too much for a Simpsons episode and usually everything is reset after an episode but, can't help to think how sometimes this can happen in real life and you're lucky but it's a short term solution. When what you really need is one that'll work in the long term.

It's fun slash really depressing how the "Does [X thing] increase youth violence" question keeps coming back in society. Even as far back as ancient Greece aging philosophers were ranting and rambling about how books were ruining the youth - I kid you not! It is that old to ramble about something new destroying the younger generation!

Oh man this episode has always hit me insanely hard, I always struggled in school and I always related so much to Bart in this then and now. I got my ADHD diagnosis officially when I was 11, but nobody explained to me what ADHD actually was beyond "you can't focus" and I wasn't given any accommodation or help so the DX didn't change my school life at all. Graduated a semester late with a 2.0 GPA and a firm belief that I was stupid and lazy and had no future. I wish I could go back now that I know how to work *with* my ADHD and manage my symptoms, because I actually really love learning. 😢

Love watching your analysis of The Simpsons. The moment Bart breaks down crying always hits me - he tries so hard this episode, and he has so many people talking down to him.There's an episode called the Strong Arms of the Ma where Marge develops Agorophobia if you're ever looking for another option. Thanks for the video - I always learn a lot from this channel.

As a kid i related to this episode so much, the feeling of lagging behind the rest of your class that you keep missing what others seem to find so easy. I really felt the end where he says he "tried, he really tried" and that feeling of if you're just going to fail, then why try at all. On the other hand I had teachers who said I was bright, I just didn't do well at the written or math. It was so great to see this episode as a kid and to show it to my parents as to how I felt and that I was struggling in that way.

"He's a little dim." Rage. "You're a solid C student. Why stress about it?"

The "overly familar" greeting by Homer to Dr. Jay was a joke/reference to basketball player Julius Irving, known as Dr. J. (Not a sports fan but I picked this up somewhere 🤷‍♂️.)

I had to deal with psychiatrists asking me what's causing my problems. I reacted with googling my symptoms, self diagnosed with adhd. It got dismissed, because I'm able to sit quietly for hours, usually by drawing or taking apart something. Then I found out that I was actually diagnosed years ago, but my parents were reassured that my high iq will allow me to compensate. I used my high iq to find an adhd expert and get my adhd treated.

8:07 Funny thing is, I didnt get called dim... I got called lazy instead, not reaching my potential. So now a part of me genuinely believes I could fix all the issues in the world if I could just get my shit together for five seconds. I will never be enough for the standards I learned to set myself. I could find the cure for cancer tomorrow and hate myself for not finding it two years ago. And all that damage just because I was a daydreaming girl , not a rambunctious boy, so my ADHD slipped through the cracks untill I realized as an adult I might have it.

I used to chew pencil a lot until high school, I think it was more about managing hyperactivity than hyper focus. When I’m not allowed to daydream, I get the urge to move a lot, but when I can’t do that either, I get fidgety (so I chewed pencil since I lacked better skills/fidget toys at that time. But it could be different for Bart here. Anyway great episode as always 😊

I'm Autistic, but as a child, my so-called "diagnosis" was that I was "shy." If my pediatrician didn't know what it was, then he could've referred me to a specialist, but apparently, that didn't occur to him, and this was back in the 80s. However, I did at least receive some academic help, in school, either with Special Ed classes, during grade school, junior high, and high school, or I'd received tutoring in college, and testing accommodations like the use of a distraction-free environment, the use of a computer, for essay questions, and the use of a calculator or scratch paper, for Math tests. I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, in 2000, and with OCD, that same year. I've also been diagnosed with PDD-NOS. But recently, a new therapist told me that the term Asperger's Syndrome is no longer being used and that according to my OCD screening that I've outgrown a lot of the behaviors, so she removed it from my charts. She had also removed the PDD-NOS diagnosis from my charts, as that term is currently considered outdated. According to her, my current diagnosis is autism spectrum disorder. It felt like a huge weight was lifted from my chest. I've been doing pretty well for myself. I have a bachelor's degree, with Honors, in Sociology, and I live semi-independently (I live alone, but near family). I have a lot of friends and am the proud aunt of a 4-year-old niece, who is currently in preschool. So, to those who are struggling, get the right diagnosis. Don't give up hope.

I didn't get my adhd diagnosis until I was 40. I feel like so much time was wasted.

Just throwing it out there that they should have more children repeat grades. Part of the problem is they push kids through who aren't ready, then without knowing hte basics they continue to struggle in each subsequent year on a subject. If they did repeat something and get the groundwork, then they will do better moving on. The issue is in the social stigma that would be removed if they didn't act like it was such a big deal.

Not me crying over Bart Simpson's little voice cracking 😭😭

I was really lucky to be good at school, I didn't have to study and never revised and did really well anyway. The downside to that though was that me being a total wreck was almost ignored because "well she's doing well at academically," as if that meant that all my other struggles were fake or not important.

Where I live, it is the responsibility of the school to provide a suitable education for children with special needs. When I was 7, my parents told school I might be dyslexic since they both are, and I was struggling. School didn't want to test me and told them: "she's just not very bright." My dad works in education, so he knows how to navigate the system and got me tested anyway. "Look, she IS dyslexic. Also, she has an IQ of 132." Much later, I turned out to also be AuDHD, and it's been a long struggle, but I graduated at one of the best universities in the world in aerospace engineering. But yeah, I just was "not very bright"

I don't think I had ADHD, but I am certain that I do have dyslexia. I was excellent at math but reading was a very difficult task for me. I read very slowly and i often couldn't tell you what i had just read after i finished it. But since i didn't write letters backwards, my struggles was written off as me being lazy. Looking back, it is very heartbreaking to have seen so many students being written off simply because their brain doesn't work in the same manner that is considered "normal".

This was a 1990 episode so psychology and psychiatry recognition was still coming away from the days where they dismissed them for bad behaviour and used to use asylums for autism 20 so years prior.

I'm dyslexic and I really struggled with school especially reading and writing and my school kept putting me in the slow class and it really discouraged me but just knowing it's my dyslexia allowed me to keep at it.

Simpsons reflects a lot of stuff we all faced as kids in school days.

I think it's such a shame the modern, and even fair bits of the classic, era of the show has kind of bought into the idea that Bart is just uncomplicatedly thick and doomed to a future as a deadbeat. There's episodes in the classics which strongly imply to me that he's as bright and capable as Lisa but has basically just been failed by the systems around him. With the introduction of Ms Peyton and the show's recent renewed sense of ambition I think it'd be really cool if the show interrogated his academic ability a bit more.

As someone with autism and ADHD who never cries i started crying when Bart did :( unusual for the Simpsons to get so real with it

15:41 - good god, no. When you're in that situation you know that it really is your fault but you also know that it's not "modifiable and controllable by you". When you lose your grip on delusion and internalize that fact (and I do mean fact) you start to embrace the fact that there is no hope for things to ever get better. At that point, people diverge and some fall into deep depression knowing that their life is not even a shadow of what it should have been and that they literally can't come close to even sniffing a small fraction of what their potential is and that they will literally always be nothing more than a failure, and others actually have the stones to do something about it and paint their ceiling with grey matter.

I was an elementary student in the late 80s and early '90s in the U.S. and as someone who struggled with ADHD, I can say the onus was very much on the student and rarely with institutions.

I never thought about how ADHD impacted my life until adulthood ( going into the work force and forming relationships). It impacts my communication skills, emphasizing with others, and emotional regulation ( not being quick to respond to frustrations). It’s a lot more than focusing for sure. I kinda wish that they had more resources and therapy when I was growing up instead of just medication. I think that would’ve made a difference in how I turned out.

Having grown up in Finland, where ADHD is still mostly considered just a made up excuse for being just lazy/drinking too much coffee/energy drinks and only until recently has started to diagnose ADHD in adults, like me, who have lived all their 40+ years with ADHD before getting a diagnosed with it, has been so freaking challenging at times. After finally getting the diagnosis a couple of years ago which led to so much mental relief and understanding of why I am like this, but also how I can make things exponentially easier with rather minor changes and awareness (for myself, and people close to me). Finally receiving assistance, daily tips & tricks and even (non-amphetamine based) medication to dramatically reduce the symptoms has been such a blessing for me. I wish videos like this, and general explanation of what exactly ADHD is and what it isn't would be more wide-spread in the general public's media feed. It could really help out with the dreadful amount of misinformation even people with ADHD have been fed about their condition by our close-minded medical community for half a century, before they came to their senses and realized it is an actual detectable condition, and not just some psycho-somatic self-suggested delusion

Thank you. I've always liked Bart but not for the reasons people think. I feel like he wants to be good deep down but he doesn't know how. ❤ I feel like he's a good kid deep down but they did change his character after a while. I felt badly when he cried.

As a radiography i agree on real life cases helping to learn abd understand stuff...sadly thst isnt how they teach us A&P

I didnt relate to this as a child but i found primary school work easy, was a quiet kid, happy to read if i finished my work and had hyperlexia so had a high reading level for my age. As was well liked by teachers and always got good reports. It wasn't until i started secondary school, where I found the work harder and so had to actually put effort in that symptoms started to show. I was still able to coast by mind you, usually getting Cs, rarely failing and never failing any important exams that actually mattered. Mostly did the same in uni, though being set on getting a 2:1 in my final year, when i was already struggling with depression, massively affected my mental health (I uaed to get stress dreams so bad I'd regularly wake up having gotten up and turned on the light while still askeep to get up and do assignments that only existed in my dreams). I wouldnt get diagnosed until I was 29. Im now on medication and in my second year of a diagnostic radiography degree. I am still struggling a little because I never learned gow to study, only to cram. I also dont know how I ever got through my first degree without extra time, even with 50% more time I am usually writing up until the last second. I feel a bit sad for my youngercself because I literally had no idea there was something wrong with me - I just thought I wasnt smart enough and that was why, even when I tried, i didnt do well

Honestly, I was in Bart's position growing up - people assuming I'm dumb or just not trying because my grades stayed almost exactly the same. This episode always hit me hard because I felt what Bart felt - not being able to improve, no matter how hard I tried. I would cry every time I watched this one. I ended up being diagnosed with Autism at 18 and left to deal with it on my own.

All throughout school i was told to "try hardee, try to listen, try to concentrate, stop being lazy, stop using your ADD as an excuse". Even by my doctor who was treating me for ADD, and my parents telling me that. I hated it. Impulsive plus easily distracted, was a nightmare. Add in severe depression and every single day, for 8 years being bullied, coming home and crying from pre-school to grade 7. Bullied by the same guy mind you. And no amount of reporting or telling my parents did anything. Even beung physically bullied the "no bullying tolerance" schools did nothing but "shake hands and say your sorry". It was terrible. I had to take medication but quit on my own. I didnt take it as often as was told, i kept forgetting. But i quit on my own because i noticed i was much happpier and i stopped skipping meals.

I'm dyslexic myself, luckily my mother was in education and noticed the signs of it at an early age. with early intervention in the form of specialized tutoring to help with the dyslexia and a family that prioritized education I was lucky enough to thrive. Multiple times in elementary school there were attempts to place me in special classes even though my grades were good. This, in a way, gave me a chip on my shoulder so to speak; I promised I myself I wouldn't let it hold me back. I have since graduated from college with 2 bachelors and a masters in hard sciences. It wasn't easy. Something as simple as reading a chapter took me 4x longer than other students, but I feel great pride for what I was able to overcome. It can defiantly be done. My little brother is ADHA and got an academic FULL RIDE to U of M and is now a practicing ER doctor.

I have had friends who were Martin for me, I always appreciate it. Like when I moved into my apartment I still hadn’t unpacked most things and the studio floor was covered in stuff. My friend came over and was horrified and helped me clean. She asked me why I had so many socks and I told her I just bought more when I couldn’t find them😅. She gives me shit for it, but it is motivating to clean when someone helps side by side.

This episode always makes me tear up. I am Dyslexic and Dyspraxic and vividly remember my mother being told, that she shouldn't push me to do well academically as I would never achieve anything and just be made unhappy. So I get how Bart feels. But in the end a more sympathetic school and some adjustments and got a Masters degree and I work for a university. Hoping to do a PhD soon.

15:13 - also some hormones, like cortysole, inhibit this process, which is also the main reason, why conducting an exam with the result encapsulated in a letter grade is utterly non-sensical - we cannnot understand them in other ways, outside of comparing them with others's and assigning those conclusions onto ourselves (for more, I recommend articles of dr. Alfie Kohn), thus increasing stress responses and closing the spiral.

I've always struggled at school, especially with maths and physics... Numbers aren't my thing. And although I love to read, I have problems reading for a long time. ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia and autism - I managed till highschool (with some issues) but I screwed up in college because it was just too much and the covid pandemic hit. I am still getting my life in order after that and concentration is the real issue. It's not being dumb but try to explain that to your family and teachers who are basically the only people you know because nobody (not even the least popoular peers) wants to have anything to do with you. You should definitelly make a video about the social aspects of neorodiversity and learning difficulties... those make everything so much worse

I do feel that procrastination is unfairly labelled as somehow being inherently bad these days, but wasn’t Einstein procrastinating while doing his mundane patent job when he came up with relativity? Speaking as a procrastinator trying to justify himself, but sometimes it is good to switch off. Inspiration can follow. Something I worry we are losing…

As a sufferer of dyslexia myself I can identify was what Bart is going through. I dyslexia was not identified until very late in my schooling career. As such throughout primary and high school I thought I was a little dumb as well. Now, as an adult, I try to focus on the positives of the syndrome we dyslexics tend to have improved, visual spatial sketchpad.

As someone with ADHD, Autism and dyslexia I've been told everyday that I'm Dumb, everyone from my Parents to my teachers. It got to a point where i started to believe them.

As someone who was diagnosed with adhd late in life, I've slapped myself so many time when trying to study before and I >literally< only realized how sad that is watching this

the irony of watching this and really struggling to focus and having to rewind constantly💀

12:30 that's funny cuz I daydream all the time but I can no longer conceive the future, one area must be better while the other significantly worse Also pretty sure I have ADHD but I do not have the executive function to get treated or even diagnosed for it, especially with NHS waiting times. Especially with my pitiful lack of doing mode

I had undiagnosed dyslexia at school…one of my teachers just thought I was lazy and wasn’t trying. My handwriting was almost illegible and my spelling atrocious, my reading was fine but my handwriting and my spelling brought me down. I didn’t get a diagnosis until I was 30 and my therapist suggested I might be dyslexic.

I was told by my high school IEP teacher that I have a slow processing speed. Even though I graduated high school it can make life difficult.

I was struggling at school most of my life, in a country where academic was the only importance and your family and society all expect and compare you and your extended cousins and such, I was the failure in the family and I often skip school calling in sick because I couldn't finish the mountain of homework that was given to us and I knew I would be punished severely for it. We start school at 7am and don't finish until 5pm, then again for most of my life there's tuition after school going on until 9 or 10pm which sometimes don't cover the homework and they provide you with their own materials so by the time you get home, you are expected to stay up to complete all the homework from 5-10 classes from that day. I was on the brink of failing and having to either drop out and attend a different school, repeat the year or just not go to school anymore. I was given the opportunity to move overseas where English was the only language I had to learn and the few subjects I had to learn are all in English so it made my life way easier, it still didn't make it easier for me to pass some of the subjects so I did struggle for a few subjects and I didn't get the flying colours final score for my high school but I was at least going from low to average. I still dislike reading to this day, unless it's of something I really am interested in, I met someone a few years ago who told me I had symptom of autism and seeing the comments they seem to also be commonly be one with the other, but I did try to go with audiobooks which is easier and doesn't require as much of an attention as having a book and having to read it.

Epic, got an advert to adhd assessment before this video

Damn I forgot the quality and relatability of older Simpsons!

I can remember at primary school seeing a teacher had pencilled 'ADHD?" next to my name on the register. I always struggled to keep attention, but would hyper focus on certain things (football, games and if a book caught my interest I would read 200+ pages at a time, even from about 8 years old), regularly lost track of time. I would always procrastinate and never did a single piece of homework- one time I got 99/100 on a mock physics test and my teacher told me I'd have done better if I did ny homework and revised. I left my 6 GCSE English essays that we had 2 years to do until about 6 weeks before the final deadline before I did anything. A year after I got to uni I was seeing someone about depression after my Granddad passed away, and talking about studies I mentioned how I always struggled to convert my words to thoughts for essays so I was then tested for dyslexia. During this the person doing the assessment noticed me fidgeting a lot and got me to go down a sheet of indicators of ADHD and every single one of them applied both as a child and as an adult (a list of about 17 if I remember rightly).

I took a calculus class in freshman year of college. I had to drop out because my grade was so low that even if I got 90s on every exam from that point on including the final, I would still fail the course. At that time I did feel the way Bart felt when he failed his test and thought he would be held back. When he was studying he verbally claimed his motivation was to avoid being held back. It wasn't. The only question people in these situations have deep down is who they are. Am I "good"? Am I "a failure"? That's what's at stake, because as silly as it is we tie a significant amount of value to the numerical score we get on a multiple choice assessment of things like calculus and obscure information surrounding American history. We FEEL as if getting a low score means WE are "bad" or stupid or whatever. I think the REASON Bart goofs off is so he can shrug and say "well, I don't care what my grades are, I didn't even try, I'm so far above this" as a way of protecting himself, because he cares a great deal, but he doesn't want to admit it. That's why it is so painful when you really do work your ass off and you still fail. In truth, while hard work is important success has much more to do with the process, the habits, and the strategies employed, as with solving any problem in life. I learned that first hand and years later I retook Calculus and got an A on every assignment, every exam, and the final course grade. I'm the same "idiot" who flunked the first time and I don't feel like I worked much harder the second time. I just figured out what works and what doesn't after a lot of trial and error. If a fool like me can improve, then I believe anybody can improve, with the right strategies, because we're not idiots, failure is inevitable in life, everybody fails sometimes, it doesn't mean jack shit about who you are.

Unfortunately my finding out about my ADHD/Aspergers came a few years too late. If I had known about it in my college days and was able to find out work arounds...maybe I could've done better than a 2.57 and qualified for going for a masters :(

Could you do an episode on Dr. Reston from Seinfeld? I feel like he violates a lot of ethics for a psychiatrist.

I would love you to react to Dimension 20's Mentopolis season. It's all about aspects of the brain in a game setting.

This episode has a lot of shots from a low angle, especially when focusing on the adults. Poor Bart, he is just a kid.

Please watch "The midnight gospel E8 Mouse of Silver". It's a beautiful animation/conversation about childhood, hardship, and grief. I've watched it many times and I cry every time.

2:16 Nah, mate - you’re thinking of _The Pirates of Penzance._ (Except for the bird - that’s obviously from _The Three Caballeros.)_

I have ADD. I remember not being able to stay focused on what people were saying to me. I could keep my attention for 5 minutes before I could barely force myself to stay aware that they were talking to me. I could spend up to an hour having to guess what I was being told and giving replies that were a complete guess on my part and hope that no one would find out that I was, stupid and incompetent I was. I wasn't diagnosed until my late thirties and I didn't receive treatment until a few years ago in my early 40s

Could you do the shooting episode from greys anatomy or the after when they have to get cleared to go back to work?

Love the videos! I'd really like to your reaction to the Sopranos some day! :)

Pretty sure I was just a bit younger than Bart when this episode came out. It was an emotionally heavy episode for me... It wasn't till well into adulthood did I get diagnosed with ADHD.

I’ve been wanting to start doing RU-vid, but I just simply can’t decide what to do. My first video I sort of just want to do a simple intro to who I am that I think might involve a psychiatrist there to help with a few questions and a little prodding to keep the conversation going. You have any suggestions?

im undiagnosed officially but im next to 100% sure im dyslexic, while i thought i hadnt been tested as a kid apparently i WAS and the school decided i didnt test LOW enough to be given help... so im probably mildly to moderately dyslexic but fuck me i guess, i can remember being in like 3rd grade STRUGGLING to spell the word three, getting a 'easier spelling test' with all the things done idk WHY they wouldnt just give me the diagnosis, i'm likely adhd too but im a girl so it doesnt show like normal but i relate so hard to so many points of adhd and i cant get a theripest to take me seriously cause im really good at the dumb fucking games they give to test for adhd :/

as. someone with both ADHD and autism, can you do a video on ASD maybe?

Stating that you need to attach purpose or meaning to something to facilitate it to transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory makes an absurd amount of sense, and is why I struggled so immensely with A-level maths, because my teacher assigned zero meaning to any of it, simply saying "It's how it is" over and over. Yet, I did remarkably well in all the sciences, even earning a degree in STEM, because the maths involved had a clear meaning. I'm glad it was simply that the teacher sucked.

Can you please do a reaction on Myers-Briggs!?

Hey there's a tv show called bomes one of the mains is a psychologist i'd like it if ya checked out it

16:32 Eh… just be glad it’s not Ms. Stevenson.

Greys anatomy greys anatomy greys anatomy! The older episodes

Hmm, would inattentive ADHD be the cause behind "Maladaptive Daydreaming"? You've probably heard of this condition.

i will let you know before the video ends if i procrastinate

Seeing this blha blha blha is hard to understand😟

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First! 🎉 (I never do this, but then again... I've never been first)

Please marry me 😊

I just wanted to stop in and say I'm not watching this video. These self-appointed experts trying to comment on art is a cancer on society.