Happy New Years a few days late!
Added 2025-01-08 22:09:28 +0000 UTCHello, Brains!
Harley here - How to ADHD's Community Manager!
We're back in the metaphoric office this week after a couple weeks to rest and recover (it was very much needed), and our first week back has been less of a... "ease back into it" and more of a "JUMP DIRECTLY INTO THE DEEP END". Heeeeh.
But we're managing! For now! I think! There's a lot to learn and adjust to due to saying goodbye to our fantabulous Producer at the end of last year. But we're absolutely determined to figure it all out!
That said... we've always said it's okay to ask for help in our videos before so I'm coming here to you, without Jess knowing (until I post this, Hi Jess!) to ask for some help. What is this help you might ask?
You remember that video Jess did AGES ago about resilience... and the quarter metaphor? (No? No worries, I got you. Click here to watch "How to Build Resilience: Quarters of Encouragement"!)
Yeah! That! I want to shower our team in quarters that come directly from you, our community, because adjusting to this change? It's hard! Our drive and our passion for this is doing a lot of heavy lifting already, but when things start to feel too hard, I want us to look at our community quarters, so that we can get that extra life to keep on going. <3
Thank you in advance for helping me out with this!
<3 Harley
Comments
That was so very sweet of your 4 year to say that to you! It always amazed me how kids know what we need, even at that young of an age, and are able to provide it to us. You are extremely blessed to have such a smart young child. 😊
Wendy
2025-01-19 06:09:33 +0000 UTCYes, it is hard when your team changes; there is so much to learn that you didn’t know you needed to learn. But it’s okay to do less and take longer. It’s okay to reassess your definition of success. Your previous producer had to learn on the job too. You’ve got this. And this community will give you loads of grace to take more time and make mistakes. We love this channel and we love you all. You don’t have to be perfect; none of us are.
Linda John
2025-01-16 17:15:48 +0000 UTCHi all, I have just officially been diagnosed after binge watching Jess for a few months :) I also have my daughter in the process for a neuropsychological evaluation. I have also just watched To Dye For: The Documentary and everything that they had said about red dye effect and links of synthetic dyes to ADHD just makes sense. Jess, can you PLEASE PLEASE interview the Cawood family, the makers of this documentary, on everything they had learned about the link of ADHD-like symptoms to artifical dyes. It would be a ground-breaking interview! Sincerely, one exhausted ADHD mom.
matchka
2025-01-16 03:49:22 +0000 UTCI’ve only just officially joined this community after watching you tube and reading Jess’s book from the side lines… this space makes me feel a little overwhelmed, I’m sacred to get sucked in and lose even more hours but also I’m wanting a community and support. My quarter would be just to say that as a recently combined ADHD diagnosed 35 year old Mum of 2 young girls, what could feel just totally overwhelming and very confusing (although it is those things too) - there is absolutely no way I’d be having positive moments and any good feelings about myself if it wasn’t for your book right now. It’s my absolute safety blanket. I can’t cope with too much info right now so to have one place to go that feels ‘right’ is such a relief. Thank you, keep doing what you’re doing because I’m sure there’s a hell of a lot of people that you’re an absolute life line for!
Jen
2025-01-13 12:30:50 +0000 UTCFinding this channel is how I found out I have ADHD back in 2016 and finally got diagnosed in 2019 at age 24 🥺 I love Jessica and everyone else behind the channel for creating such an invaluable resource for so many of us ❤️ Please keep going so others like me can figure themselves out better as well!
Renatuh
2025-01-13 00:24:05 +0000 UTC(I meant not being sure which part of the producing of the videos you're struggling with. But "It's all part of the process" still applies. Your struggles are how you move forward and learn, or heal.) Like others have said, this channel has been a massively important resource. I got diagnosed a few years ago as a middle aged woman and between the HowToADHD channel and ADDitude magazine, it changed my understanding and confidence in persuing an assessment. I'm still learning from both resources regularly. And I use them sometimes to explain to others how things work for me by sending them links to vids.
Isabella Reed
2025-01-09 20:04:27 +0000 UTCYeahhh, we want to update the languages its available in, that's something we hope to do sometime this year - hopefully once we get video production going smoothly! (Cause we lost our producer at the end of last year and we're having to take on the load of that job until we can get someone hired on.) Fingers crossed! (And actually what the quarters are for, lol) But yes! That is absolutely a great idea!
How to ADHD
2025-01-09 19:37:13 +0000 UTCFor Discord you can check out Patreon's guide on how to join the server!: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Getting-Discord-access And thank you for your quarter <3
How to ADHD
2025-01-09 19:33:50 +0000 UTCI love this metaphor! This channel has been so helpful to me these past years. The content and delivery are so relatable and make me feel seen and give me positive reinforcement, and I know I’m not alone in my struggles. I have often watched a how to ADHD video as a quarter! This was especially helpful during a very difficult time at a job that really did not play to my strengths , and the show helped me understand and feel great about the progress I was able to make, etc. So thank you to everyone! Also, when I first signed up as a Patreon member, I didn’t pay enough attention to the emails to get signed up for the Discord channel. It’s been years now and I keep forgetting to try to figure it out and I had to clear out my email inbox , so I think I deleted it. 😅. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask for help with that, but I can’t even find an email address and I’d really like to check out the Discord channel if I can. Thanks again!
Alena Reynolds
2025-01-09 18:23:32 +0000 UTCI got diagnosed three days ago and found your channel from /r/ADHDUK as a recommended resource. In that time I have binged my way through far too much of the content, signed up here, and bought the book. All because your resources have been amazing. It's been a fantastic resource for coming to terms with my diagnosis, figuring out my past as "Huh, so that was an ADHD thing" and learning a lot about myself. That I wasn't a failure or lazy or unmotivated, but it was just a differently wired brain that I need to work with but that doing so wasn't impossible. I've laughed, cried, gotten angry, gotten relieved going through and learning about so many topics for the first time in a way that now applies to me and helps make sense. So, thank you, to Jess and Harley and all the other names that I don't even know yet because I'm still dipping the toes. You've made these incredibly scary first few days so much easier, and I'm excited to find all the other things from eight years of wonderful content that I haven't found yet. Like a video on quarters that I didn't know exists :-P
Harry Adams
2025-01-09 17:54:59 +0000 UTCI didn't have ADHD as a child I had "if you just applied yourself". This was a function of there being no such thing yet in the 1970's. That's been a pretty big source of pain and suffering that is ***very much relieved*** by this channel. The confirmation and ongoing education of how to live as our actual selves and not as a masked imposter of a person in this society is invaluable. You are saving lives and improving them as well, at an industrial scale.
Rocketguy
2025-01-09 17:05:32 +0000 UTCIt's not an overstatement to say I got my ADHD diagnosis because I watched your videos. And then, I recognized the same patterns in my young son. His diagnosis has been life-changing for getting the help he needs at school, and for helping us understand him better at home. Please keep being awesome!
Meghan Moore
2025-01-09 16:17:51 +0000 UTCI don't think I would have gotten my diagnosis if it wasn't for this channel. I fit almost perfectly the late diagnosed woman, 35 when I was diagnosed. My husband has ADHD, even, and he was the one who brought my attention to the How to ADHD video because even though it didn't match his experience it was all things that sounded familiar for me. This channel literally changed my life and I cried reading Jessica's book because I never felt like I was enough and reading that I was hit me in the feels. My 4 year old once came up to me when I was frustrated building a bed and I'll pass on what he whispered to me: Keep going. You're doing great. Be nice to people.
Kristen
2025-01-09 02:27:56 +0000 UTCNot sure what you're struggling with right now, so it's hard to give specific quarters... But I'll share with you the reassuring quarter my husband gave me not half an hour ago "This is all part of the process". (Apply applicable process here. Could be "getting better at this" or "learning this new thing" for example. For me it's post-op recovery) Also, the How To ADHD channel has played such an important part for me in understanding what ADHD is and what you can do to deal with it. Sidenote: if you have announced the release of the Dutch translation of the book, I've missed it. It's been out since late November and I think more people need to know they can buy the book in more languages now!
Isabella Reed
2025-01-08 22:54:25 +0000 UTC
