S4E29: Unlocking the Brain - Understanding Dyslexia and ADHD

This episode explores the complexities of learning differences such as dyslexia and ADHD, the importance of understanding how different brains operate, and the challenges parents and educators face in supporting children with these conditions.

 

Chapters

 

00:00 Understanding Curiosity and Knowledge Seeking

06:09 The Impact of Self-Absorption on Learning

12:25 Navigating the Challenges of Parenting with Learning Disabilities

18:01 The Complexity of Learning Differences and Mental Health

23:10 The Importance of Proper Diagnosis in Education and Medicine

 

Transcript

 

00:00:07:06 - 00:00:34:03

Unknown

So question for you. Do you think people that are and I'm going to make this as a general question, and you're going to understand why I'm going to make it a general question. Do you think people that have been in a certain industry, whether it's teaching the medical worlds, whatever, if they know that an individual that's close to them has knowledge about their field and disabilities?

 

00:00:34:05 - 00:00:53:02

Unknown

Do you think that they don't ask questions because they don't care, or they don't ask questions because they don't know what's coming, and they don't know that they're going to be able to adjust? Or do you think it's something else? And does that make sense? Because I know we were just having a conversation on the side. So it might listeners might be like, what the fuck is she talking about?

 

00:00:53:04 - 00:01:11:07

Unknown

I have my thoughts. Well, there's a couple of things, you know, first off, obviously, you know, we've been doing this podcast. You know what? This is going to be up to about 140. You know, somewhere in that area. Yeah, I think we're a little less than that. But yeah, but I mean, it's over two years. Yeah. Right. Season four we're going to be going season five soon.

 

00:01:11:08 - 00:01:21:09

Unknown

Yeah. You know so you know I say that is that the all our listeners and the people listening in the comments.

 

00:01:21:11 - 00:01:31:12

Unknown

They're listening for a reason. Right. Because they don't have the understanding. So.

 

00:01:31:14 - 00:01:57:18

Unknown

A lot of them, if you don't have if you don't have a direct impact, you know, if dyslexia, autism or something like that isn't a direct impact. Usually you don't ask the question, right? Right. Because you you don't get the knowledge of it. You kind of get the 20,000, you know, foot view of it. Not not, you know, not the 1000ft or the 5000ft view.

 

00:01:57:20 - 00:02:21:03

Unknown

But if you're in an industry. You know, let's talk about education, right? You know, you mentioned medical or sales. Those those fields aren't directly impacted in what they do. But the education side of it.

 

00:02:21:05 - 00:02:25:05

Unknown

It is so.

 

00:02:25:07 - 00:02:40:01

Unknown

You usually think once you have an impact, a family impact on that, you'd ask some more questions. Yo, because it is hereditary. But.

 

00:02:40:03 - 00:02:44:05

Unknown

Unfortunately.

 

00:02:44:07 - 00:02:56:09

Unknown

Most of them all think they have their degrees and they know the best. And they're.

 

00:02:56:11 - 00:03:08:17

Unknown

You know, the old saying, you think you're the smartest one in the room, you're in the wrong room. And most of them do think they are the smartest in the room.

 

00:03:08:19 - 00:03:37:00

Unknown

I totally agree. And now my positive and I have so many things to say because I just read something also that I'm going to go back to. But my positive spin on it is that it's not really positive, but that so many people don't stop and think and ask questions. Yes, because they think they know, but they also don't stop enough to take a breath and be curious and be like, wait a second, maybe I can do this better.

 

00:03:37:03 - 00:04:00:11

Unknown

So many people just go through life and they don't try to enhance their life. They don't try to be better. They don't try to make other people better. They just are so solely self-absorbed in their own shit. And we all have shit, but they don't step out of the line. They're so linear that they don't step out of that line and think, wait a second, can I make this better for someone else?

 

00:04:00:11 - 00:04:22:03

Unknown

And and it is really interesting because I know that I, I've always been that way. And I don't know if it's because of the struggles or whatever. Like, you can you can go around and say, well, you probably are like that because you saw struggles or whatever or you struggled. I don't know, I think this is where the innate, the don't don't make a face, the innate confidence or you're just built that way.

 

00:04:22:04 - 00:04:41:20

Unknown

Like, I was just always my grandmother was that she always asked questions, always, you know, met people, always wanted to know more. I have family members that are very curious about what I'm doing, and it's curious because they really want to know. And they're like, well, how can I help? Or but there's people out there, like I have friends that have kids that are dyslexic and they don't ask me any questions.

 

00:04:41:20 - 00:04:58:16

Unknown

They know I've been through it with Montgomery. They know I've been through it, but they don't ask. And sometimes they'll be like, there's a part that's like, it's because and I don't go this way. But like, I could take it like, oh, they don't think I know what I'm doing or they don't trust what I'm saying. It's not that.

 

00:04:58:16 - 00:05:15:01

Unknown

It's that they're so caught up in their own world that they think they can do it themselves. They don't need help from the outside because they got this because maybe they have a degree or whatever. It's it's and I hate saying small minded because these people that I'm thinking of are not small minded. And if it's my one friend in Georgia, I'm not talking about you.

 

00:05:15:01 - 00:05:47:01

Unknown

I don't think you listen to this podcast, but I'm not talking about you. It's others. But it's really fascinating that, like, all of a sudden, I've been in a couple conversations over the last year and I'm like, oh my God, okay, this is so interesting. I can't believe they've never asked or asked, is there anything the foundation like, is there anything that you now have been doing with the foundation that you know, even more, even though I've been doing and they know I've been in this world because they've been with me moving from, you know, private dyslexic school to the public school, and they're in similar situations.

 

00:05:47:01 - 00:06:09:13

Unknown

It's just really fascinating. And I really think it's because they think that they're smarter but not thinking about it. It's just like, oh no, I can do this. I don't need outside help. And it's the self-absorbed part that I think, and they wouldn't even say that they are. So it's it's a very interesting thing. I think that there's so many ways that you can think about that.

 

00:06:09:13 - 00:06:49:10

Unknown

So I'm going to let you talk about that. And then I have something else to kind of bridge off of. Yeah. The world has ever been more self-absorbed than it is now. So, you know, obviously it's crazy. The world gets, you know, the more that that gets. And, but, you know, it's amazing how many people that I speak to about this, that call for insight or information or help, but then don't do it because it's too hard or they.

 

00:06:49:11 - 00:07:15:23

Unknown

Right. It's, you know, it's too hard, or they don't agree, they don't agree or they don't want to deal or they don't want to deal. Right. Dealing with it is, you know, for sure. And then a lot of the things that we talk about is almost opposite than what people would think. Right? And that's the difference between a left brain and a right brain.

 

00:07:16:00 - 00:07:37:09

Unknown

If you're a left brain, the things that we talk about on here, like these people are crazy. What are they talking about? AKA teachers? You know, if you're a left brain, you're going to have a clue of what ADHD or is or how to operate in a classroom with ADHD. And no, that's not how I do things here.

 

00:07:37:10 - 00:08:08:15

Unknown

Well, that brains don't operate the same as the right brains, right? And as long as we have two opposite sides of the brains working together, everything is going to be different. Very few things will be will be the same. And if you're not open minded to listen and, you know, we've talked about this, you know, I probably said, you know, 10 million times on here, you know, there's a second way to think.

 

00:08:08:16 - 00:08:32:01

Unknown

And what I mean by that is the right brain. People are out there and doctors, you know, we've had this conversation. You know, teachers left brain people have a hard time knowing that there is a second way because most of the left brain is all on the education. Now, I got my degree, I've got my bachelors and I got my masters, and I'm the smartest one.

 

00:08:32:01 - 00:08:56:18

Unknown

And this is how it goes. And X, Y and z ABC. And obviously that's not how our side of the brain functions and works. The other thing. And this is not the other other thing, this is bridging over this. And I'm holding that other thing. I also think there's times where what we suggest takes work. You have to be on top of it.

 

00:08:56:18 - 00:09:15:01

Unknown

You have to be able to talk to the teachers. You have to be able to make sure that you're organized in a way like, okay, my kid now, next year is going to be in a different school or and I have to make sure all of this and this is for some people that maybe also are dyslexic and ADHD, it overwhelms them.

 

00:09:15:01 - 00:09:34:00

Unknown

They're like, nope, I think my kids are just going to be fine. I don't feel like dealing because they really haven't dealt in their own way. And it's not easy, but it's essential because if it hasn't caught up to your child yet, there will be a time that it does. And I don't mean it in like a negative way.

 

00:09:34:01 - 00:09:55:15

Unknown

Yes, a lot of people can get through. We have friends, right, that are like, oh yeah, my kid was diagnosed younger. They went to Harvard. That's great. They still have the trauma and I don't give a fuck what anyone says about it. There still is that where you learn different, you work different. You're in a school environment, you're told you're different, it imprints on you.

 

00:09:55:15 - 00:10:23:15

Unknown

And so there's going to be a time that you get defense mechanisms. We just put a podcast out, out on that. And I've had people reaching out about that. But you're going to get things that are going to kind of form you and good or bad. And but it's I don't care. Like, yes, if you go even if someone is a left brain and they go through school and they have certain, you know, situations in school, they're going to have trauma, like if their every single one of us do.

 

00:10:23:16 - 00:10:50:00

Unknown

Right? Exactly. It's the degree of what. Yep. Theirs is, you know, a degree of trauma regarding, you know, regarding just schools. What what we're talking we're talking about exactly. The left brain, traumas and issues in school compared to a ripe ring going to be massively different. So we're not talking about home life. We're not talking about anything else.

 

00:10:50:00 - 00:11:13:00

Unknown

What's going on? Where you. Nothing. Just the fact in the school settings. Thank you for clarifying that because that's. Yeah. Great. Yo. A left brain to a right brain. Massively massively massive difference then. Yes. And all that other stuff coming you know, come into play. But just strictly left brain. Right brain at school. Right. I mean and so you need to be on top of it.

 

00:11:13:00 - 00:11:35:18

Unknown

And it's not easy. It's hard. It's a lot of work. Yeah. But it's essential if you know I mean it's essential and it's the school is so backwards. We've always talked about it. It's backwards. It's not made for I mean it's it needs there's so much needs to change. And that's not again that's not that's out of our hands.

 

00:11:35:19 - 00:11:51:03

Unknown

I mean it is. But you have to as a parent of a child that has any of the five D's, you do have to be on top of it. You can't put your head in the sand because it's going to end up biting you in the ass at some point. Yeah. And yeah, you know, those are all great points by you.

 

00:11:51:07 - 00:12:21:10

Unknown

It's definitely hard, especially when you're, you know, if you have a right brain kid, you know, with the five days and you're left. Yeah, it's hard because you're not understanding, right? You really don't understand, you know, and it's hard to you'll never fully understand. And the first beginning process is so overwhelming because. How do you mean, how does that work?

 

00:12:21:10 - 00:12:53:04

Unknown

I don't get it. I don't understand it. What do you mean? How can that function? I don't just work hard to do that. I don't do that, I don't do, you know. Right. And that's for the most part, those are the teachers in the classroom. So as a parent, if you have if you're not dyslexic and your kid is your struggles to understand your kid, go back from the beginning time of when they were struggling, you couldn't figure it out.

 

00:12:53:06 - 00:13:04:14

Unknown

And, you know, uses an example. Lizbeth. Mom, you know, she's been Manning, you know, for you know, she she had.

 

00:13:04:16 - 00:13:11:04

Unknown

Three girls. One she's one. One's crazy.

 

00:13:11:06 - 00:13:29:08

Unknown

Well, you know, but she she loved being a mom. Like she that was that was it. And then so she's carried on, you know, she's been nannying for how long. She been nannying 20 years before. Since she was born. So somebody birthday's coming up, you know, a couple weeks. So 40, you know, 40, 40, 50 years. She's been doing it.

 

00:13:29:09 - 00:13:52:18

Unknown

And, you know, obviously when we got together, she started listening to podcasts. And she has one kid and she could she couldn't figure it out, couldn't understand it was so frustrated. And then y'all all lives with, you know, being ADHD. She never knew. She couldn't figure it out. She's like, oh, you do this but could couldn't figure it out.

 

00:13:52:18 - 00:14:00:20

Unknown

So the struggles of that left brain trying to figure out that right brain individual.

 

00:14:00:22 - 00:14:32:03

Unknown

Yeah, she definitely wasn't a thing where kids obviously it was more prominent. But you after we started dating, she'd come over and she started asking questions because she's listening to podcasts because she's got and I tell her things and she was just like struggling to understand what I was saying. Right. And I bring that up as is, because that is most of the teachers are the left brain people.

 

00:14:32:06 - 00:14:55:15

Unknown

That school came easy. You know who school came easy, right? There are definitely some dyslexic teachers, 100%. Not a lot because we don't want we didn't want to go back to the classroom where we struggled, right. Just like some of them were going to be ADHD. But I, in my mind, would probably be 80 to 85% of teachers are left brain.

 

00:14:55:15 - 00:15:24:00

Unknown

So the struggle getting to understand your kid, the struggle getting your why was my kid, struggling? Why did it take so long to get diagnosed? Why don't I connect? Why do I don't understand? Why not all these things? That's the teacher. And you're taking the extra time as a parents figured out. But the teacher is not. And then you have the administration as a parent, that that's what you have to do.

 

00:15:24:00 - 00:15:46:00

Unknown

And then as a parent that has the five days it the struggle of bringing the school trauma back up, sitting through the IEPs, getting the anger and then also having to be organized and being like, I mean, we just went through where Truman and Penelope, you know, got diagnosed with two of the DS, and all of a sudden I was like, wait, AP tests are coming up.

 

00:15:46:00 - 00:16:04:00

Unknown

I was like, Holy shit. Did I put the paperwork to get. I got them diagnosed so they can have some of this extra time if they need Truman's like, I don't need extra time. Penelope is like, I'll think about it, but I definitely, you know, like, there's a couple things now that they're understanding how they learn and that, oh, wait, maybe that would be easier.

 

00:16:04:01 - 00:16:22:18

Unknown

You know, I was like, oh my God, I don't know that in Truman's like, wait, you didn't put it in. So we decided this whole conversation. I was like, I don't remember. Hold on. And not that it's they handle everything else. I don't know anything else. They do everything else. So I'm not helicopter. But this part I need to be on top of, because this is new for them and this is not new for me.

 

00:16:22:19 - 00:16:44:02

Unknown

Right. So I emailed the guidance counselor and I was like, please tell me that I, you know, that all the accommodations are in place for their AP and exams. And he's like, yeah, everything's great. And I was like, okay, perfect. So I went back to them and I said, listen, it is. But I don't know, like I don't know if your guy like if the teacher is going to come up and say, hey, you can go out.

 

00:16:44:02 - 00:16:58:05

Unknown

So like just be on top of like we know AP exams are I don't know when they are for you guys. I don't have the schedule. I need you guys to also have in your mind. I know that the accommodations are in place now. Now I need you guys to step up. And if you need accommodations, figure out how and where and what.

 

00:16:58:06 - 00:17:14:06

Unknown

Because I can't now like that of my brain. I did my part. But so as the five days like I that's like, okay, I did my part. It's gone. Right? I got them diagnosed and then that was gone. And I was like, oh wait, shit, I haven't followed up on anything because no one's falling out with me. But that's on the parent.

 

00:17:14:06 - 00:17:39:23

Unknown

You have to do your own homework. You have to stay on top of it. And that's what's really hard. So I think there's a lot of times especially, you know, either way it's hard, but it's essential because it can make never, ever goes away while you're being a parent. And, you know, I always I always say it's there's always a different heart at different ages.

 

00:17:40:00 - 00:18:15:06

Unknown

Yep. Baby diapers not sleeping right as they grow. It's a different hard. Teenagers, drugs and sex. Right. It's it's just you know you know, it's a different hard, you know, school with somebody with the five days it's a different hard and gets harder every year. You know it's most kids left brain. It doesn't get you know school gets a little bit different y'all gets every year is a little bit harder.

 

00:18:15:06 - 00:18:19:10

Unknown

Right. And you know it's a different heart.

 

00:18:19:12 - 00:18:41:23

Unknown

Someone five days it gets harder. So different hard than harder are two different things. And you know as a parent of a kid with five, you know, one of the five or any of the five days, it's always getting harder. Yeah. And a little kid and this is and then I'm going to go to that other thing that I brought that I was saying I wanted to talk about.

 

00:18:41:23 - 00:18:59:08

Unknown

But one of the things that is really important for parents, both in all worlds, to hear that you have any of the five days or not, when you are a kid, even before you are diagnosed, when you realize that you're learning differently. But it's not like it's not something that they're like, wait, I think I'm doing something different.

 

00:18:59:09 - 00:19:13:06

Unknown

You start creating these things that you do, so you go into the class and you're like, okay, how can I get out of this? Where am I going to sit? What book you start doing things like, how is the teacher going to call on me? I don't know if they're going to call me. I'm going to sit back here.

 

00:19:13:08 - 00:19:36:06

Unknown

Okay? I had that homework assignment. Or can I look over on the person's thing over here who's sitting near me? You are going through a thousand things in your mind before you even walk into the fucking classroom. And it gets more and more and more and more as school gets harder. And this is where you can see the intelligence in the five D's.

 

00:19:36:06 - 00:19:55:21

Unknown

But this is where the defense mechanisms, the the podcast that we put out a number of weeks ago because this is going to go out. It is something that you and even as an adult, you enter a room, you assess the room. You're like, okay, what conversation? You are constantly playing things in your mind. You're traveling. Did I book everything right?

 

00:19:55:21 - 00:20:15:02

Unknown

Oh my God, did I put that right? You know, there's so much that goes on into a brain. I'm not saying that people with left brains that, you know, maybe have anxiety or other things, that they don't go through this, but we develop this from the earliest age without our knowledge, and it continues to go. And that's where anxiety and all of this stuff builds.

 

00:20:15:02 - 00:20:42:08

Unknown

I'm going to let you speak on that. And then this is a perfect segue into what I'm going to bring up next. That's why the number number one contributor to mental health is learning disorders. Like me. I'm a complete fucking train wreck. My anxiety, depression, all nine yards. You know, I won't ask for help in the store. You know, I don't ask for help because somebody's going to think I'm dumb, you know, like I'm almost 50 right now.

 

00:20:42:08 - 00:21:06:03

Unknown

If somebody's hearing this going, oh, why? Why would they think that? They're not going to think that, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. We've questioned ourselves from, you know, two years old, year old without it. You know, and we've questioned ourselves without even understanding why we do things. You know, the example of when I played hockey, when I played pro hockey, you know, I never took a pregame nap.

 

00:21:06:05 - 00:21:25:12

Unknown

You know, everybody did. Everybody in pro hockey did. Because, you know, 95% of the games are at in the evening. So I would take a nap or at least rest half an hour, a half an hour. I never did, you know, because I found the more tired I was, the less my dyslexic ADHD worked so I could play hockey instead of thinking hockey.

 

00:21:25:14 - 00:21:47:05

Unknown

I didn't understand why I did that until, you know, until you and I started this podcast and, you know, I put it together, you know, a couple of years ago. So 46, 45, 46, 47 years old, whatever it is. I play pro hockey for 18 years, one of the longest careers ever. And I had zero understanding of why I did it yo now.

 

00:21:47:05 - 00:22:07:14

Unknown

So I started playing, you know, hockey startups. He started saying when I was two playing knives when I was five, right? I started, I was always playing up level or two, you know, Triple-A when I was, you know, 14 and I was, you know, mainly a 16 through 18 league. So I've been, you know, I was traveling on the busses then.

 

00:22:07:15 - 00:22:32:08

Unknown

Right. So I was playing high long and getting, getting scouted then. And that's why I started doing that even then. Like that's how far back it goes. I had no no clue. No why. The more if I rested or slept more relaxed I was, the more my brain worked. You'll. So you know, I kind of tell a quick story is we do things with even knowing why.

 

00:22:32:10 - 00:22:37:00

Unknown

Why did they do it? Now I can look back. Right. So.

 

00:22:37:01 - 00:23:13:00

Unknown

With knowledge base of what we do and what we're doing in this and obviously we're, we're we're into this, you know, heavily, you know then most people. But it's taking us that long. Even Ferris to your point is they've got anxiety what we created earlier or self-confidence. That's why the number one thing for the foundation is self-esteem, because we lose that at such an age, a a young age, that some of us, they'll never, ever get it back without even knowing what or why.

 

00:23:13:01 - 00:23:38:13

Unknown

I read somewhere that and I can't exactly remember, and I don't know if I sent it to you, but it was it was an article and it basically was saying someone told a family, it's easier to get your kid diagnosed with ADHD. Don't worry about the dyslexic because that's so hard to get diagnosed with. So just do that so they can get some help because it's it's almost impossible.

 

00:23:38:13 - 00:23:57:07

Unknown

And I don't know where they were. I read it and I like I thought about it first. It to me because this is the first that I'm, I know and I and I was like, fuck. Because now as we were just talking, that's so when you were saying, like in education, you know, the people, it's really where they should know this.

 

00:23:57:07 - 00:24:21:02

Unknown

But also in the medical, like the medical world is tied to this because they're the ones that are diagnosing. Right. So like your general practitioner. So 100 fucking percent, your pediatrician should know all about this. Because when I went to my doctor, yeah, whatever six months ago. Whatever for you know, for, you know, meds and, all my crazy pills, you know, you know, she ask how things are, and I've known her.

 

00:24:21:02 - 00:24:42:02

Unknown

Been been seeing her for, you know, you know, 20 years, you know, I guess 17 years, you know. So she's been a doctor for almost 40 years. Asked about the foundation of a she had zero clue. No clue. She told me, remember in medical school, I think she said, there's one line for the sexy. Yeah. Now talking about anxiety.

 

00:24:42:03 - 00:25:20:08

Unknown

How many people she diagnosing? To your point. Anxiety. How many she diagnosed with ADHD. Right. With no clue behind that. You know, wherever you read that the point to that is yes, ADHD is yo yo buzzword now, right? It's a thing. You know, it's easy to get meds and get diagnosed, right. Easy now going to go to the even, you know, going to get a diagnosis, you know at the school to that person what they said it's easier go get the ADHD taken care of then forget about the dyslexia.

 

00:25:20:08 - 00:25:51:05

Unknown

Well only 4,040% of us dyslexics have ADHD. So is that kid actually truly have ADHD? And this is what screws it up for everything else. Does that kid have ADHD? Okay, ADHD, you need extra time. Some of us don't need extra time, right? So that doesn't always work for each of us. Don't mess me up HD. It's not a doing, it's just thinking it's a getting going problem.

 

00:25:51:06 - 00:26:09:10

Unknown

Right? We can think. We can think, you know, way more so to that person isn't to your point is pediatricians are diagnosing kids well. Primary care doctors are diagnosing kids.

 

00:26:09:12 - 00:26:33:22

Unknown

Why? Right. And I was diagnosed with only ADHD right, in college. And like, that didn't just I thought all of my other shit was because of ADHD. So it didn't like help me until Montgomery. And then I was like, wait a second. So you got, you know, you got diagnosed, you know, let's now let's address that question that that article, whatever you read to you.

 

00:26:33:23 - 00:26:51:19

Unknown

Yeah. I gotta find it. So you so you got diagnosed, obviously you've got more than one five the five. So ADHD and it was what, 20 years later where you got the rest of them.

 

00:26:51:21 - 00:27:19:07

Unknown

So I had understanding I understood the other stuff, but I didn't think I was smart enough to have the other stuff because. Right. Because I was told, you know, whatever. Right. So, you know, you can speak from experience on on that what what's your thoughts? What's your feelings, what's your opinions to to what, what you just talked about since you've walked through those shoes.

 

00:27:19:09 - 00:27:37:05

Unknown

Right? I mean, I wish that the dot and I have to look up what he was. I don't I don't think I don't I'm almost positive he was not a neurologist and I was, you know, I mean, my mom knew I was 80 from when I was little, but she wasn't going to put me on meds. And so we did all the other things.

 

00:27:37:05 - 00:27:44:11

Unknown

I just didn't have the diagnosis of it. And then, I mean, it would have.

 

00:27:44:13 - 00:28:11:19

Unknown

I would have had more understanding and not think that I was as dumb as I thought I was right. And then having to that point, you know, how old your thought, you know, people, do you realize what it is for 20 years thinking you're that you're dumber, like right about the anxiety that that that brings in the self-esteem, the body complex like the whole things that go to people by by thinking that go ahead.

 

00:28:11:20 - 00:28:29:18

Unknown

Right. So like as that doctor, it should have been like, okay, you're struggling in school, you're coming to me because you're in college saying that you're going to fail out. So let's just see if it's maybe not just ADHD right now. That is, you know, we've and I've talked about it. So I'm not going to go into depth.

 

00:28:29:18 - 00:28:53:13

Unknown

But like I did get on medication and I did start doing really well in school. So I could also understand how confusing that is. But that's why it's also so important to go to a neurologist that has all the understanding, because I had so much that I compensated for. I also started studying communications. I was, you know, doing things on in the radio, like I was doing things that my brain actually was like, oh, this is cool.

 

00:28:53:17 - 00:29:16:12

Unknown

You know, I was writing scripts, I was directing movies. Like, I was doing things that I was like, I'm never going to do this in real life. This is kind of fun. This doesn't even seem like it's college, right? It wasn't things that challenged me in the same way as my sexy. And obviously then when I stayed home, you know, with the kids, I mean, there was that stint in advertising because I chose to go into advertising sales, which is heavy in math.

 

00:29:16:12 - 00:29:34:03

Unknown

I couldn't do any of that. I had to find people within the organization that could help me run my numbers, and I'd be like, okay, thanks. You know? So I was constantly in my jobs doing what I was doing in school. I was interviewing, though, with giant balls, like, I'm going to get every one of these fucking jobs because I'm like, right?

 

00:29:34:03 - 00:29:50:18

Unknown

But I was like, and I'll figure it out once I get in there. It was almost this competition for me like that. I was like, okay, I know I can't do X, Y and Z, but I know I can use my personality to get a job. So I did that and, you know, and not until later I was like, oh, it's not that.

 

00:29:50:18 - 00:30:19:00

Unknown

I just sucked at all those things. It was that I learned different. And, you know, so it's I think that that's where yes, teachers and doctors, whether whatever, whatever field you're going in into the medical world, there should be more understanding of how people's brains work, period. Doesn't matter what you do. Organization CEOs, everyone should have a fucking idea how people work so everyone can work and make companies more efficient.

 

00:30:19:01 - 00:30:47:00

Unknown

Like you. Think about huge companies that could be doing more things and being better because they could utilize everyone's brain because they have understanding. Right? Yeah. No, it's. And then that's exactly why we talk about here. Going get tested by neuroscience right early. We'll get a full evaluation. So you have full understanding what's going on once you have understand.

 

00:30:47:00 - 00:31:04:02

Unknown

And once you understand how your brain works, then now you can understand it. If you don't understand how your brain works, you're not. So as your kid, if you don't understand fully what how your kid learns or how your kids you know, you know you're not doing your full.

 

00:31:04:04 - 00:31:33:17

Unknown

Justice, you know, for, you know, for the kid yelling, finding out one, you know, only one of the 3 or 1 of the 2 or 1 of the four, does harm to the kid, you know? So go get it tested. Go get full understanding of what is going on upstairs. I'm just going to leave it at that.

 

00:31:33:19 - 00:31:39:08

Unknown

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