00:00living with adhd the brick metaphor for me living with adhd felt like every sound sight and touch
00:10became a little brick that entered my brain neurotypical people experience this too
00:15but they can filter out the bricks letting them leave their head
00:21for me the more i interacted with the world the faster my brain filled up with bricks
00:26i couldn't get rid of them everyone has a breaking point but for me this wasn't a once in a
00:35lifetime
00:35thing it was daily when my head was full i couldn't think and i would explode with frustration
00:43and anger as a child i stayed up late at night because it was quiet and i was alone for
00:50a brief
00:50moment my brain had space and i could finally be myself creative and free but there was a problem
00:57bricks dissolved when i sleep without enough sleep i would wake up with a head still partially full of
01:03bricks school became harder routines were overwhelming and fitting in felt impossible as i grew older the
01:11bricks didn't just come and go anymore they formed a permanent foundation a tower of bricks that never
01:17disappeared slowly my brain became completely full i couldn't function but then i got my adhd diagnosis
01:26and with the right medication the bricks finally left my head for the first time i experienced life like
01:33everyone else now i don't get angry i can process my thoughts i am well dedication
01:43this is for my younger self a kid with a massive heart and a deep desire to do good in
01:49this world
01:50the kid who saw the beauty in things who cared too much and who just wanted to belong but you
01:56are
01:56overwhelmed drowned in the noise and the chaos and the weight of an untreated mind that refused to slow
02:03down adhd wasn't just relentless it was the storm that never settled the bricks that never stopped
02:09stacking it was the nights when sleep felt impossible when the only time you could truly think was in the
02:15silence while the world rested i see you the boy who was never broken but buried who became something
02:23he never was molded by exhaustion by frustration by a world that never understood what was happening
02:30inside his head and still you fought even when the weight felt unbearable even when that anger and
02:38confusion felt like they would swallow you whole you fought against the darkness night after night
02:45moment after moment holding on until the day help finally came i thank you for surviving for never
02:53giving up for holding on long enough to see that life didn't have to be this way for carrying the
03:00weight
03:00of a battle that no kid should have to fight alone you are always good you are always worthy you
03:08just
03:08need of the space to breathe to heal to exist as you were meant to be this is for you
03:14and now we are free
