FALLING LETTERS. Is this ADHD?

While this film makes no claim to portray any specific diagnosis, many people have celebrated its depiction of ADHD. Ultimately it's up to each viewer to decide what it represents to them.

Swedish title: Bokstavsbarn
Animated film by Erik Rosenlund
Music by Martin Willert
Sound design by Séamus Deivert
©SlowMoleStudio 2014

[RedDevil]

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

[hbzzghe]

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

[bleedorange]

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.

[sdcon]

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.

[LittleBigOrb]

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 <3

[BerniekWittendorp]

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!

[piotrwln]

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.

[paxtonl]

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.

[Tantejay]

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

[reneporsche]

if I only had parents who really care about me.

[DadsResale]

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.

[noahorlowski]

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.

[TheSuperZombieNerd]

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

[pixelseph]

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.

[bg]

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

[Ally-xufn]

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.

[XnogoXshort]

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

[_violyzzx_]

i’m crying, i’m literally watching myself in this video

[stuarthedley]

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.

[Goldenflowey]

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.