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

[@SinuousStudios]

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.

[@BloggerMusicMan]

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

[@alexr6068]

Damn, up until this video I had no idea my daydreaming for hours every day all my life isn't normal??? Oh man

[@sarah2301]

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.

[@v3ru586]

Most of the mental health professionals I've met work like this. I don't know the right answer, but I ended up googling my symptoms and self diagnosing and being dismissed because for every condition I've found, there's at least one symptom that I don't have.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

My mom is a psychologist and a lot of people she helps realize have ADHD were told similar things as children. And the worst part is that a lot of them have internalized it by adulthood and genuinely believe they're stupid, even when there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. The impact of being told these things as a kid are devastating. That's why it's important to watch how we talk about kids around us, even the rowdy ones, and give them the benefit of the doubt. We can't fix the past but we can do better than the generation before us when we talk to kids now.

[@TheDahaka1]

"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.

[@lauramarschmallow2922]

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

[@buelabuela6108]

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.

[@v3ru586]

Pretty much the same as me. My parents knew about my adhd, but since my dad never needed help, and the school psychologist told them, my high iq would cancel out any negative effects, I was expected to do well. And when I didn't, I wasn't even allowed to be upset, because it was my fault that I failed. And the amount of work I did was measured by the result, so whenever I failed, I got in trouble for not doing anything, just pretending. Ironically, accepting the idea of being dumb actually did me good, as it allowed me to seek psychological help. (I was told that intelligent people don't need psychological help).

[@AleixoAlonso]

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.

[@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper]

I only watch 2016 Simpsons

[@3ofme6116]

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

[@acidspitpandas]

I second this suggestion!

[@246kisses]

Ohh I remember that one! We really see what a crappy household she had

[@DarkLordGanondorf190]

Oh yeah, that one left an impact!

[@Flickermaus]

Yes please!

[@GeinsArtAndCraftSupplies]

That's such a good one :3 ✨

[@morganqorishchi8181]

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.

[@BlackavarWD]

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." 😆

[@AlexaFishburger]

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.

[@scaredscorpion]

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

[@Pay-No-Mind]

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 =(

[@unknowndane4754]

Had similar issues in classes as an autistic person, as a child, I absolutely hated noisy environment and or a lot of people, so when schools tried to get me into a full class, I did not take it well.

[@MintyFreshCupcakes]

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.

[@erinjohnson7329]

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.

[@Ridcally]

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

[@megblaaa]

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.

[@lexwithbub]

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"

[@randomname24680]

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).

[@violetleporid]

Malcolm in the Middle is my favorite depiction of neurodivergence. It's so good

[@ChaosCause3000]

the scene where Hal wants to change the light bulb and ends up fixing the car is so classic!

[@WatashiMachineFullCycle]

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. 😢

[@ks.kyokudonanshun]

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.

[@restlessraving3528]

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.

[@Roof5tone]

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!

[@lagggoat7170]

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.

[@lagggoat7170]

I might still be angry and frustrated about that. I didnt fail school (learned to harness the anxiety of disappointing people to get everything done somehow), but before the diagnosis and the meds my brain was definitely set to hard difficulty. Add that to being queer and my teenhood was pure, distilled angst and self loathing.

[@Crayolapup]

Getting called “dim” hurts like hell.

[@mehlover]

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.

[@kayliemcintosh7841]

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

[@v3ru586]

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.

[@ChaosCause3000]

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 😊

[@Songfugel]

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

[@starr6016]

Barts breakdown after getting an F got to me 😭 I have vivid memories of studying with my mom on math homework for hours and then getting an F on the exams. Ugh his reaction reminded me of my own and I started tearing up

[@johnsmith-nn2hs]

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 🤷‍♂️.)

[@almightyk11]

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.

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

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.

[@TheMrfluffi]

Not sure if it was the same for you but I also found that when things finally became a challenge for me never being given any during school years left me woefully unfamiliar with how to process and action it.

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

@@TheMrfluffi yep, absolutely!

[@cassandraj1822]

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.

[@THE_REAL_POLITIK]

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.

[@dynatic4384]

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.

[@TheGavin1994]

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.

[@nopenope2951]

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.

[@ChimpManZ1264]

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.

[@LauraBuchanan-y3z]

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.

[@JW-eq3vj]

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".

[@PlatypusVomit]

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.

[@lullustration5775]

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"

[@LordJuzzie]

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.

[@swiftninja91]

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.

[@Harrison_J_T]

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

[@StephenMullin-b5m]

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.

[@vukkumsp]

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

[@reedsylvier5250]

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

[@skeptiwolf5654]

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

[@TheMrfluffi]

Same, it explained so much of the comments I got about not living up to my potential but has left me with a whole new stress factor around whether I'm still wasting my talent if I don't return to study now I can, but at an age it is questionable of how much benefit to my life and employability it would be...

[@elmartell5724]

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

[@angelagokool9514]

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.

[@ricardosaenz569]

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.

[@Harrison_J_T]

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

[@lizziedavidson1987]

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.

[@juliamdp]

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

[@chungdamien]

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.

[@felixhenson9926]

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

[@Zenowing100]

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.

[@mandipandi303]

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

[@misalife626]

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.

[@DaddyFurin]

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.

[@Gilluled]

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

[@veronika.rel.wiesner]

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

[@jennaschweitzer6054]

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

[@mlee6050]

Epic, got an advert to adhd assessment before this video

[@Stradiwhovius963]

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.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

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 :(

[@Clips9213]

Some people genuinely don’t care abt their grades i was extremely competitive with a friend of mine freshman and sophomore year then junior and senior he left and i jus stopped trying as much i wasn’t failing any classes except portfolio but ye idk

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

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…

[@Kno_Buddy]

I’ve been wanting to start doing KZbin, 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?

[@Antony_Oscar]

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

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

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

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:27 Eh… make that _Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde._

[@Ona1979]

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

[@marvelsandals4228]

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.

[@Jim-Stick]

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.

[@DoctorElliottCarthy]

I always find it so interesting going back and watching these episodes as an adult and how much I just didn't get as a kid

[@sean_mccadden]

Damn I forgot the quality and relatability of older Simpsons!

[@sidonie9856]

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

[@jamespicksley5781]

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).

[@DarkLordGanondorf190]

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

[@DoctorElliottCarthy]

That's a really interesing observation that I didn't pick up on

[@ClareBearBunny]

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

[@9480djoh]

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

[@manahakume9870]

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 :/

[@acrefray]

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.

[@v3ru586]

Reminds me of my least favourite type of math teacher. I dared to ask for a link between some formulas we were supposed to learn. Her answer "you won't need that, you only have to know which formula belongs to which situation". No one would believe me that my brain just doesn't work that way, they would just point out things that I could remember. The most infuriating part was being asked why I can remember x, but not y, dismissing my answer as "wrong" and accusing me of not wanting to succeed

[@tfordham13]

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

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

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

[@Sithamparanaathan]

Seeing this blha blha blha is hard to understand😟

[@r3h0l3s7]

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

[@GirliestMammy]

💖

[@Maverick_Mad_Moiselle]

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

[@jennaschweitzer6054]

Greys anatomy greys anatomy greys anatomy! The older episodes

[@cjbk-unlimited]

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

[@jeffdavis6930]

Please marry me 😊

[@jeffmaehre7150]

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.