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Famous People With ADHD
Famous people with ADHD! Are you worried about seeing characteristics of ADHD in your child?
There is not an ADHD cure.
However, there are ways we can help students manage their symptoms while providing the emotional support they need.
The most important thing kids need to know is this: there are famous people with ADHD that have been very successful. They made it, and so will the students in your life who have ADHD.
"I prefer to distinguish ADD as attention abundance disorder. Everything is just so interesting . . . remarkably at the same time.” -Frank Coppola
Sharing mentor stories of famous people with ADHD is also a perfect way to provide support. These stories provide role models and give children and teens with ADHD positive examples to follow.
Ty Pennington The energy and charisma Ty shows on ABC's Extreme Home Makeover is legendary. "I'm about as ADHD as you can get," Pennington told InStyle magazine. He is now a spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company Shire.
Positive Characteristics of ADHD
Some of the most inventive, creative and imaginative people have ADHD. In Psychology Today, it was reported that people with ADHD are 300% more likely to start their own company!
Famous people with ADHD all share these top 10 characteristics of ADHD:
Originality
Loving
Sensitivity
Creativity
Intuitiveness
Artistic
Empathetic
Exuberant
Visionaries
Inventiveness
Does this sound like anyone you know? How about these famous people with ADHD?
Celebrities with ADHD
Many of these people have all acknowledged having ADHD in one form or another. Reviews of some great historical figures suggest that they probably displayed many of the characteristics of ADHD.
Although a sign of ADHD is heightened creativity, remember that simply because an individual shows that characteristic does not mean it is ADHD symptoms being displayed.
These stories of famous people with ADHD can help give hope to our students who are truly struggling with ADHD symptoms.
Michael Phelps With 14 gold medals under his belt at the Beijing and Anthens Olympics, Michael Phelps may not seem ilke a typical ADHD child. However, his swimming is what has helped him cope with ADHD. His mother helped him channel the excess energy into the sport.
Sir Richard Branson Visionary, inventive, creative…these are characteristics of ADHD, but also describe Sir Richard Branson. In fact, it is these characteristics that directly relate to Branson's building an underwater plane, sending tourists into space, and founding of Virgin Airlines.
Mozart No written evidence exists that Mozart was ADHD, but he did display characteristics of ADHD. As one of the greatest composers of all time, Mozart created beautiful and complex compositions. It has been noted that he was extremely energetic, became agitated quite easily, was highly creative and impulsive, and was considered to be something of a maverick in his day.
Albert Einstein The greatest physicist of all time. Einstein revolutionized the world with his theory or relativity, equivalency formulae of E=mc2, and was also diagnosed with ADHD. He also did not talk until he was 4 years old, and was 7 before he began reading.
Thomas Edison Inventor extraordinaire! With 1,093 U.S, patents, Edison was the epitome of creativity and intuitiveness. However, he suffered greatly from attention issues and was a great mischief-maker. By the way, his lack of attention and conformity to rules led his teachers to tell him he was too stupid to learn!
Walt Disney Although he was actually fired by a newspaper for "not having any ideas," what would our world be like without him?
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