Morfydd Clark Quotes

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children - some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.

I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.

I'm so ADD.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

The kid in me has ADD.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Being very dyslexic I couldn't even tie my own shoe laces until the age of 21 and I struggled at school.

I have extreme ADD.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

In retrospect, I think I had some kind of learning disorder. I could kind of charm my way through grade school, but in high school... I could never seem to grasp things.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.

I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.