ADHD survival guide: school edition😌 #shorts #adhd

[watermelongay]

My friend asked me “why is she talking so fast”, and I replied with “she’s speaking the language of my people”.

[KillerCat]

I have lived 19 years without realizing I can have more than one pencil case... College cant stop me now

[arina_lovely]

Oh my god that grade percentage thing is going to actually SAVE ME.

[kayleewilson]

This the first time I have actually heard some helpful advice about school, thank you

[jazzyk]

getting an ipad has been a LIFE SAVER, especially in the medical field. not only do i have all the notes on the ipad, they're also backed up to google drive so i can access them from any device. literally has saved me during medical terminology.

[benediktemb]

I love the speed at which you speak. I can actually keep up for once compared to people speaking slowly/regular speed and me just zoning out in the middle of whatever they were saying and hoping I can piece it together based on the first and last words they said to me.❤

[ChavezAmtz]

😂 her as number 1, 2, 3 took me out! 😂💀. Had to rewatch to actually hear her advice😅

[weka]

If you can’t have a laptop for all your notes, get a big fat ring binder, hole punch (that lives in the ring binder) folder dividers (1 for each subject and no they don’t need to be in sequential order and all pretty) a whole pile of those plastic copy safe /clear sleeve things that you can store a page in (at least 2-3 for each subject, and a pad of refill paper. When you get hand outs punch and file it into the subject spot. Tear off some paper, write notes on it, put it in its subject (as in passed the exam etc spot. Decide if recent at the front or backs works best for you and stick to it. Recent at the front worked for me and when I revised, I started from the back.
Keep some spare dividers, copy safe sleeves, paper at the back.

At the beginning of the course/paper/subject they normally write up on the board, or hand out a piece of paper that has what assignments are due when and what the weighting is. This is valuable like gold. Glue it to the back of that folder divider so every time you open the subject spot up, you see it. Highlight what is due next, and cross it out when done. Put the dates as soon as you get them into your electronic calendar with reminders 1, 2, 3 weeks before hand with ever increasing urgent messages to go with them like reminding yourself of what else is due that week.

At the front of the folder/binder glue a year calendar that has squares to write in to keep track of what is due when. Easy to look at at a glance and see what weeks are going to be busy. If you have big life events coming up you know about, add them onto this paper calendar too so you can see that you won’t have as much time as you think you have. Shade them a different colour.

When you have finished with a subject/course transfer that whole section to a different binder that lives at home.

Write up a rough revision/homework schedule that you can blindly follow each day for those days when decision paralysis takes over, you can just look and go, ok ok ok I’ll do that. Set up a study chat group that may or may not include your mum so you can say, “I’m going to work on x for an hour” then you all check in an hour and say what you did. The fear of the report back helps to trick our brain to get on with it.

And remember, you’ve got this. You’ve come this far, you can do it. You just need to employ all the coping strategies you know.

[LeadTrumpet]

One more (from this ADHDer who has taught students):

If you have an IEP/504/university accommodations: get in there the ability to record lectures and having materials available in digital format

Why? Because if you have the ability to record lectures, you don’t have to spend all your mental energy trying to process what the instructor is saying since you can always go back and replay what was said.

Digital textbooks and class materials can be very beneficial since most computers, tablets, and smartphones have speech to text built in and the ability to pull text from images. It helps some ADHDers to have two modes of information to help process that information into long term memory.

[MadiganinPeach]

Just hearing this somehow soothed some of the organization I was lacking all through college. As if I can claim I'll do that next time I go to college.

[jadedjene]

Yup, that’s me, finding how spontaneous, yet TOTALLY RELEVANT acts can actually impact understanding.
I.e using your ENTIRE BODY to number the strategies!!
Effin awesome

[molly]

These rlly helped thank the why I didn’t think of the pencil case one before I’ll never know also you creating the numbers was gold

[joelle]

I’ve seen study advice videos for people with adhd and they are like 8 minutes long, so I sit through a few seconds of it and go “If I am looking at this I probably have the attention span of a pea at this moment. I AM NOT SITTING THROUGH THIS!” You help me do much with these short videos!

[Andyyoureastar]

Dude as someone who just graduated these types are GOLDEN. These are actually essential lol

[allisons]

If you get one note it lets you record while writing notes on your iPad/tablet and you can go back and tap a place in your notes and it will play the recording from where it was at when you were writing those notes. It's a life saver for when you zone out

[theawkwardamvi]

Something I always do is bring a Scrap Notebook to school so I can write down notes without any order to them and not need to keep switching/keeping up with notebooks
It also helps with missing notes because my brain doesn’t need to slow down in order to worry about formatting and writing. It’s like one big sticky note !

[AmyJLiang]

Finally some real adhd tips that arent just “focus more! 🙃”

[FrenchFryCreations]

Watching your videos made me get the courage to finally talk to my parents about adhd and the possibility of me struggling with it. I have a plethora of adhd and autism related problems at once and it's been a tough subject to explain. Your videos really helped me find ways to explain to my parents that what they consider normal in my behavior isn't actually something that should be happening (because they know me for a long time and they can't compare to anyone else because I'm an only child). Now I've found a way to explain why "just focus" doesn't work, and why it's so hard to handle tasks. Thank you, this content really means a lot to me.

[rklaforce]

You were standing for the one and I thought you were just giving us an ‘intently listening’ face 😂 then you did two and I just started laughing but then you did THREE 🤣

[louis]

Thankyouuuu so much for talking at a speed I can ACTUALLY understand!!! I hate it when people talk slow!!! 🥹