I’m A Celeb: Sam Thompson opens up about ADHD diagnosis

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I'm A Celeb: Sam Thompson discusses ADHD diagnosis with campmatesI’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV

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00:00 My timekeeping's terrible.

00:01 Sometimes I get quite selfish where like,

00:04 and this is not just with her,

00:05 it's with like everyone, like my mates or whatever.

00:07 My listening to Zara, whenever she's talking something,

00:10 like Zara will listen to me, I'll come back full of energy.

00:12 Be like, "Oh, you'll never guess what I've just done."

00:15 And then I'll be like, "What have you done?"

00:16 And she'll go, "Well, I've been on my own."

00:18 And I'm just finding myself like staring off

00:20 at something completely different.

00:21 And she's like, "You're not even listening to me."

00:23 And you sort of feel like you're a bit of a knob sometimes.

00:25 'Cause you're like.

00:26 - But you would not be Sam without it.

00:28 I would just say that you've always got loads of energy.

00:31 - I have dick.

00:32 - Yeah, you're not a dick.

00:32 - Like seriously bro, you're not a dick man.

00:34 Like your energy is crazy bro.

00:36 And it's like what makes you great.

00:38 - He is literally one of the most fascinating people

00:41 I've ever met.

00:42 You know, I can't think of anybody that has the energy

00:45 that Sam has and that's what's great about him.

00:47 - Weird, no one really spotted it beforehand at school.

00:50 But if you look at all my report cards,

00:52 every single one says the same.

00:53 - Really?

00:54 - It's like, "Likeable enough guy, but lacks focus."

00:58 It's like staring you in the face.

01:00 If I had known as a kid, not much would have changed.

01:04 But like how you feel about yourself probably changes.

01:07 I remember crying into my textbooks.

01:09 I was like, "I can't understand the words

01:10 that are going into my head."

01:12 And I was so bummed out.

01:13 And then like, just you wanna do good.

01:16 Like you don't wanna be mischievous or anything like that.

01:18 So you're like, "Right, I'm gonna do this."

01:20 And you're like, "Open your little textbook.

01:21 Here we go."

01:22 You get your little colored pens out.

01:23 You're like, "This is it."

01:24 - Yeah.

01:25 - "I'm gonna be a teacher's pet."

01:26 And you just can't focus on it.

01:28 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:29 - It's so hard.

01:30 I'm not like ashamed of having ADHD in any way.

01:34 But you know, I know that I would have felt better

01:37 about myself at school if I had been diagnosed

01:40 with it at a younger age.

01:43 Because I really was just like,

01:44 "Oh God, I just suck at everything."

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