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Since this is less of a journalistic video, I’m going to talk about myself in the first person. Going from failing a class my freshman year of college to getting on the president’s list is something that I am extremely proud of. Understanding my ADHD was one of the most important things to help me get to where I am now, that and actually putting effort into completing my assignments. People with ADHD aren’t lazy, it genuinely takes us more effort to get simple things done that don’t interest us and I want people to understand that.

Most of the time when you see stuff that includes helpful tips for ADHD, it’s a doctor giving advice to parents with children who have ADHD. I’m 20 and I still struggle with it, so I was a college student with ADHD who made this video to talk about what I do that helps me and to give neurotypical people a little bit of insight into what we go through. What works for me won’t work for everyone, you need to understand how your own brain works before you can know what helps. For me it helps to have something playing in the background while I do homework, to take my medication in the morning, and to do my best to stay as organized as possible, but just because I have these things doesn’t mean I don’t still struggle.

I think making this video was easier in the sense of getting the video I needed because if I thought “oh this shot would be cool” I could just get the shot while I was still editing, the shot near the end where I’m distracted playing on my phone instead of doing my work, the work on my laptop that I’m supposed to be doing is editing the video. This video is also my longest (8 seconds over the time limit) because the story was more important to me since it was my own. I was really worried about how this video would turn out but I’m pretty proud of it in the end.