This is a very interesting video from Paris Hilton and it made me go “hrmmm?” I wonder what the inspiration for this video was? Paris Hilton has Attention Deficit Disorder and everyone who has read my book knows I talk about her and ADD together and my thoughts and observations. I also, of course, talk about myself growing up with undiagnosed ADD daydreaming all the time and getting bad grades in school, also about the ridicule and chastisement I suffered through as an adolescent due to my behaviors… After I watched this video it made me wonder what the inspiration was? By the way, I also sent my book to Paris Hilton, so maybe she has read it?

Seriously, I don’t know what the inspiration was for this video and it probably has nothing to do with me or my book, but there is so much coincidence that I couldn’t help but wonder. Please watch the video and if you have read my book, tell us what you think and if you think I am way off base here??! This is just for kicks and grins, – I am not taking this the least bit serious. I think it’s a wonderful video, but will warn parents that it is probably PG-13, so be warned before watching it. 

Enjoy

~Bryan

*If you are the copyright owner and did not permit this video to be uploaded to youtube, please let me know and I will remove the video from my site. I mean the notice of coincidence as just coincidence.

*** I just found out this video was created in 2006, or at least posted to youtube in 2006 – so, I am calling it LOA now the “law of attraction” – see, our minds were on the same subject and connecting already hey, but it was fun joking around with the seeming coincidence – wonder if Paris would get a kick out of it? Since she has ADD, it would be great if she would come out and support the ADHD community ~ this video is a great start!!!

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Lots of people are reported to have this or that, but it doesn’t always mean that they really do.

Some may believe she has ADD/ADHD and maybe she does, I don’t know and I can’t answer that. I don’t know her and I don’t have any connection to her. I feel for her. She is obviously going through something dramatic and serious. I have read a lot of the articles sent to me and all I can think about is that I hope she gets the help she needs. Some of the photos in those articles are disturbing to me and I will not post any of those links here, so although I understand the reasons for sending me such articles about Britney, please don’t send anymore, I can keep track and if she does indeed have ADD ADHD, I am sure I will hear about it.              

Britney Spears is a human being, who is going through something none of us can hope to understand, at least not from the outside looking in. How about we give her some room to breathe?

~Bryan 

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Big thanks to the folks at Paris Hilton Site.net! They have posted an article announcing the publication of my book. A few months ago they also posted a link back to Adder World about an article I wrote concerning Paris Hilton and ADD, you can read it here! The article I wrote about Paris Hilton has been one of the most popular articles I have written. 

~Bryan

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The reason I created Adder World was and is to help spread understanding and awareness of ADD ADHD. I speak from experiences I have had, what I have researched and the experiences others have shared with me. I do not claim to be a doctor or any other type of medical professional. If my experiences and what I have observed and therefore write about help bring awareness and inquiry to others, then I am achieving my said goal and hopefully more.

You can help me!

Read on if you really, really want to help…

Yes, indeed you can! Your experiences are valuable to all of us. We can learn from you and at the same time your comments can help spread awareness. Please, share your experiences with the rest of us by commenting on any article you relate to, most especially if you relate to more articles. Do not under estimate the value of your voice and how it might help others in similar situations as you. Many of you visit from ADD ADHD forums and you share your ideas there and no, you shouldn’t stop that—only enhance that by allowing others to hear from you from across the internet. Not everyone visits the same sites and many might not have read your experiences yet. I do appreciate the emails I receive and that has helped me along greatly—let’s spread the knowledge and give our visitors more than just my opinions, experiences and research! Everyone can become part of the solution and help reverse the overwhelming denial and negative opinion of the general public. Not only that, but many medical professionals have visited Adder World, by writing your experiences, you could very well be helping these professionals discover new treatments! I don’t think that’s too far fetched… do you?

Thanks for visiting Adder World… Your world, my world… OUR world!

~Bryan

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Those questions, with tons of negative commentary, about Britney Spears seem to be the only headlines, worldwide, on the web the last couple days. I think that says a lot about today’s society. I think it is very sad when people are dying in wars, and our nation seeks out a new president, that the most detailed information is about a pop singer and her woes. Sad indeed!

Who has not read about Britney’s most recent performance in Las Vegas? The media is bashing her and Bloggers are having a field day ridiculing her. It’s really pathetic, and again, I repeat: SAD!

Obviously, Britney’s choices in the last couple years have not been overly wise. It is also obvious that Britney has been through a lot and seems confused. But wait, she’s a millionaire and deserves any humiliation because she chose to be in the public spotlight! Say What??? Does anyone dare put things into perspective when considering a person’s troubled nature? Well, since this is a Blog about Adders and therefore people who have been criticized all of their life, in some fashion or another, I guess this is the perfect place to put things into proper perspective:

Britney Spears has sold over 70 Million albums worldwide! She is the 8th best selling Female Artist in American History, according to the RIAA! She has been performing professionally since the very young age of 9. She is only in her mid 20’s and she has accomplished more than most people ever will in a life time. And you know what? She’s not done—she probably hasn’t even really started yet!

Give the girl a break. I can practically guarantee that none of the Blog writers, mainstream media writers, or any other critics have accomplished nearly as much as Britney Spears, not to mention in the spotlight she has been in since 9. How many 9 year olds can go out there and create a career adults would die for? With such scrutiny and intense focus on her, especially in her private life, it surprises me this didn’t happen earlier. The girl is tougher than she looks, despite divorce, child custody battles and public and professional pressure, it was her Aunt’s death earlier this year that caused her ‘breakdown’. Let’s be real here, when people very close to us die we get sad and often we get temporarily depressed. This is a part of life. Now think for a moment, in those moments of grief, has the world’s spotlight been on you (for the critic’s)? Did the cameras hound your house for a peek of you? If that would be the case, how would you react or get over a death, divorce and custody battle? C’mon the girl has not led a life of anything we consider normal and pressure mounts over the years—the pressure has been mounting on this girl since the age of 9.

There are probably pressures on Britney Spears that the public has no clue about. She hasn’t aired it out, as far as I know.  What kind of pressure made her perform recently and perform in such clothes? Was it a previously signed contract? Was it a mixture of things? Hey, we already know that the recording industry has gone after old ladies for files on computers—it would not surprise me one bit if Britney Spears had no choice but perform. If so, that says a lot about the industry she is in. Besides that, she just had two kids. The girl is probably under a lot of intense pressure we just don’t know about, or, from what I have read, care to know about.

If anything, I think whoever is guiding Britney Spears should rethink the strategy and give the girl a much needed ‘real’ break. She’s already proven what she can do and I am sure, after some time, she can come back better than ever before.

~Bryan

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Unfortunately, no, I do not have a way of contacting Ms. Hilton. When I write about someone I try to let them know that their name has been mentioned. I did leave a message on CNN’s site for Larry King. No, I have not heard from him. Yes, I do believe we could spread the word and awareness of ADD together if she so desired. Yes, I did write a little about ADD and Ms. Hilton in my book. It is a short concise part similar, but shorter, than the article I wrote and published for my Blog here on my site.

I sincerely enjoyed reading your comments, thank you,

~Bryan

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You know, just the other day I heard someone talking about how stupid Paris Hilton was for saying she read the bible and then couldn’t remember what she read on Larry King, and then that person mentioned how Larry King just let her get away with it!

Let me make something very, very clear. Obviously, Larry King understands the disorder of ADD. An Adder could read a book 20 times and might never remember any exact quote from the book, unless, the book was in hand at the time of the request. Ever wonder why we have so much difficulty in school? I am sure she read what she said she read, but, regardless of whom she is, she is still an Adder and remembering specific quotes from even her most favorite book is probably a difficulty. And this is one of the reasons Ms. Hilton is so frowned upon? ADD is a real disease and just as fortunately as Ms. Hilton has it, it’s also unfortunate for her that many just don’t understand what she is living through with due consideration of ADD.

Keyword of Adder World: Awareness.

~Bryan

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 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/lkl.html

It was during this interview that she admitted to having ADD.

~Bryan 

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Now I want to talk about Paris Hilton. She’s an Adder! When I heard the news that she is an Adder I wasn’t the least bit surprised and actually, I really, well, expected it. She has all the traits. Think about it: She seems naïve, but she’s not. She said she just acted dumb, but that she’s really not. How many of us Adders have said this in our lives just to cover up our ADD or ADHD? She’s still young and I remember at her age I used to say things and do things I wish I hadn’t—heck, I still do. We Adders are impulsive, ingenious yes, but we are so impulsive and our minds work so fast that we say things before we have formed them in proper sentences or worked them out in a way that the general public can understand. Because we do that, sometimes, well, we just look dumb and what’s worse is that we feel dumb. By feeling dumb we become ashamed and the next thing we do is play things off as just an ‘act’. The problem with saying it’s just an act, is when we do it again, people start to believe it really is just an act and they begin to resent us for it. 

Thankfully, in today’s world we can come forward and say we have ADD. Or can we? I am not so sure about that. I have read so many Articles and Blogs by, forbid, Adders denouncing Paris Hilton and ridiculing her! I can understand the negative articles by those who do not understand ADD, but from fellow Adders? Isn’t being ridiculed, chastised and punished the most common problems we Adders face from others who do not understand our condition? Be honest now… isn’t it? No, I am not condoning anything Paris Hilton has done which has broken the law—she is not even condoning that stuff. So, please, get down from that high horse if you’re on one. Stuff happens, especially with us Adders. Will she break the law again or do something wrong again? Well, you tell me. What’s a BIG problem for us Adders when it comes to things we have done wrong or even anything we have done—good or bad? We tend to repeat. We don’t do it on purpose and if we could stop ourselves, we would. Have you ever repeated a mistake? I know I have—again and again. Sometimes we just don’t realize we are going into repeat action until we have done gone and done it. Oops! But, hey, nobody in their right mind is going to excuse our oopsies—most especially not someone of Paris Hilton’s stature. She has to be better than us. She must control it better than us. She’s rich and famous; she’s not allowed to claim ADD. What? She’s not? She’s still human and she still has ADD. If you were given 20 kazillion dollars today would you never repeat a mistake again? I wouldn’t, no, not me… yeah right! Can I still have the Kazillion dollars?

Let’s move on and look at Paris Hilton’s fame. What? She doesn’t deserve it? Let’s think about that for a minute. Again, I can understand the general public without ADD not completely understanding Paris Hilton’s allure, but us Adders should know better, because we can relate. We too have ADD, after all. Think about it—what’s another very common trait we Adders have? We draw attention to ourselves. We are magnets when it comes to attention. Hey, it’s one of the biggest reasons for our medication—to help us calm down, stop acting out and stop drawing attention to ourselves or those around us. Paris Hilton happens to be on a bigger stage than most of us and she has learned to hone the attention she receives into a ‘brand’. Wouldn’t we all like to do that? We can, but that’s another article. The great thing about us Adders is that we are abundantly blessed with a creative nature. We are also inventors and idea makers. Paris Hilton might be on a bigger stage than us, but think a moment about other stars, actors, even politicians who have money and wish they had a fraction of the fame Paris Hilton has. The difference with her is that she has ADD. She might seem cursed with our negative sides, but she is also blessed with our positive sides.

ADD is not an excuse. Let’s get that straight. ADD is not an excuse, BUT, it is a reason for many of the things we do. If it was not a reason, well, then, I guess it wouldn’t be considered a disorder. Right?

Some Adders even say Paris Hilton is giving us a bad rap. What? I don’t think so. Actually, I think she could be an ADD spokesperson and help bring understanding of ADD to the general population. She could already be doing that, but many of us Adders are inhibiting her from doing that because most of us are distancing ourselves from her. She is exhibiting ADD traits on the biggest stage and nobody sees the value in that for awareness of ADD? I think that’s a mistake and a missed opportunity. Are we ashamed? That’s another big ADD issue. Shame. We are tired of being ashamed and Paris Hilton’s problems remind us of our own shame for the things we have done and didn’t mean to do. It is understandable, but somewhere we must draw a line and say, yes, that’s our issue and we want to be better. If we hide from it and chastise famous people who get ‘caught’ in moments of Adderness, well, then, do we deserve assistance—do we deserve understanding from the general public who do not have ADD? I am just asking.

I have frequently read that Paris Hilton should never have depended on someone else to read her mail and that it just shows her stupidity. Uhm… just another question of mine, but isn’t one of the most recommended things for an Adder to do (who can afford it) is to get a personal assistant? Someone who reads the mail and keeps track of bills etc.? Again, just asking here. Let’s think about our own solutions, which we Adders have created, for our most common tendencies and then we go about saying another Adder should not have done what we recommend? Again, I am not condoning any actions of anyone. I just want to take a moment and look at the other side of the issue. We Adders have a tendency to neglect things, but, let’s not neglect the truth of ADD and how it affects those with it, even people such as Paris Hilton.

One of the reasons I think we tend to neglect the other side of Paris Hilton’s story might be that we don’t see into Paris Hilton’s life past the cameras and glitz. We just see what is reported. Take a moment and consider that she has a GED and she was diagnosed with ADD at the age of 12. What did she and her family go through? There are reasons she went to see a doctor and was finally diagnosed. We are not privy to that complete information; however, I am sure it is not unlike many families who seek medical advice for their child. It is not an easy thing to do. I can’t imagine that the decision was made over night and, like most of us, the decision to seek medical advice was probably taken into consideration for a while and for many unexplained problems. If you are an Adder and you have received proper diagnosis just think about how long, and what you suffered through, before being diagnosed. There is more to Paris Hilton’s story than meets the eyes. I think some of us forget to take that into consideration, but, to be fair, we should.

Larry King is taking a beating for the way he handled Paris Hilton’s interview. I applaud him. I think he understands ADD ADHD for what it is and how it affects people. Adders are very well known for being sensitive—along with our shame and our mistakes and so on. What if Larry King understood this and handled Paris Hilton’s interview with concern for her well being and mental stability? She is also on medication—not just aspirin either. The rest of the world was already chastising and burning her at the stake and most of the world got mad when he didn’t join them in the witch roast. Thanks Larry, from the bottom of my heart as an Adder for being the one to recognize there is more going on with Paris Hilton than what was being considered. He might not be able to protect her completely, but, he stood up and gave her room to speak whether she made mistakes or not. He could see her mistakes and he could have questioned and berated her for them, but, he didn’t and he’s Larry King. I think Larry knew what he was doing.

~Bryan

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