Keegan Allen Quotes

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder?

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.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'

As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.

Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.

Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

The kid in me has ADD.

It's hard for me to sit still.

It's not hard to get into a teen's head, because it's all emotions. Their feelings are amplified; you have no luxury of hindsight. If you haven't had your heart broken before, you don't know that you'll be able to get back up again.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

No one escapes the teenage years without a lot of challenges. I had many. I was awkward. Petrified of boys.

I think I've got some actor's form of ADHD. I just can't do the same thing day in, day out.

I'm a really spastic guy. I can't sit still.

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

Your average teenager can't relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.