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well every designer todd pennington has put down his tools to return to his

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hometown of atlanta the satellite on a topic that he holds a very close to this

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attention deficit hyperactivity or or eighty h d as it’s commonly known anti

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understands the importance of eighty h_d_ firsthand he was diagnosed when he

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was just a teenager and continues to be treated for as an adult mount i joined

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us today tells more about this and tell us what he’s acting tied thanks for

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being here

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payment on why they are going to do it so yeah back to my hometown the eighty l

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acted you know which i don’t want to finance was like

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it’s imagery medication for adults may be a ski and a anybody who

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got a note we will examine how the poster child for a in houston in the

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sense that

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uh… as it came and i was an absolute a handful and i didn’t get

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a newly diagnosed until i was in college but on the minute i did it was like

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somebody put glasses on like it you know i guess i just everything became more

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you know mourn focus actually started uh…

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uh…

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actually really

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it would to muscle to art school which is that the whole thing to change that

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and i i was like a new person in a again which is a personality would help me

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focus execution goals i never thought i’d be able to

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now with my schedule in the sense of like really harsh lesson seven days

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traveling back and forth doing juggling about eighteen different projects it’s

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amazing that i could actually folks and all that but it’s uh… it’s taken a lot

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of the deftly treatment on

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but i’ll get more doubts in to everyone that you know ifa

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if you can you see any sympathy somebody getting treated him diagnosed early on

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so that is they will have to wait as long as i did because it really does

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affect the fat intake in life

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now today you announced a very important scholarship tell us about that

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yeah well you know i i would rise to one although i could get a focus on would be

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like are you know in our website at kind of

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to get your going to put myself through art school is a huge thing because i

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finalize have got talent babies were something sunday and uh…

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and and i know other people with aids you’re going to the same struggle in

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similar in that creative industries so

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all i think that was charlie icmp scholarship to usher scam which is on

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the savannah i am

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too

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mislead us because large design document landing and it was great about this is

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not

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you know it’s really going to get some of the lsat year’s academy would be on

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the paypal weren’t so i i want and that’s what they are given to him so

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is going to get governs in somebody’s life and for me

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the one outlet i have found its creativity you know i’ve got the the

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great job varghese my creativity really make a difference in someone’s life

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whether somebody out there maybe see like me man who loves you

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who really was sick and they get the created feels a little but i can you

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know we can really can i get back in and help somebody else

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very nice and so is creativity how you’ve been able to channel your energy

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in designing some positive like your work

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we are a big anything you know when you have eighties two years we’ve had a

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tough to well uh… it affects your work it affects your home in approach

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affects like relationships and and and

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when you have someone like an outlet where you can actually penetrate some

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energy is so necessary

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on that for me with you know i haven’t design you know but i need to work on

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the projects in the difference right

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i’d kind of a magazine have a book going on in my job and all that really is

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pretty incredible considering i was the same guy and we couldn’t even

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for his long enough to read a paragraph so of is quite a transformation of

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there’s a lot other people out there and people think that it’s just for kids in

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there you go out of the truth of it is the symptoms never really go away and as

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an adult you really need like you know you need treatment as long-lasting and

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so it’s really great ratings like violence after the really make a

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difference in people’s lives just i really would be the person i am today if

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i hadn’t gotten treatment

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no i mean

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side of that though many people think that doctors are maybe too quick to

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diagnose kids with eighty each date

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what’s your reaction to that

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well i think you know i think that’s really parents choice you know but i am

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i think there are symptoms in my opinion uh… i think you know how we know

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what’s best for me

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but i think if you see symptoms i would wait to understand and checked out and

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everybody’s different but there are difference between eighteen eighty h d

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would have liked to have any disorder

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you can cancel this by the behavior pattern

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was it’s a little more obvious but you know

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is is i would say don’t wait too late to have the kind of checked out because

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you know you guys are web based lead to real materials dry school and

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ineffective migrate so the opting to go even better schools was even an option

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because because the struggle that winter early on because back then they didn’t

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have a treatment within a big deal

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i would just is apparent you know be aware of under treatment options that

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are out there and that you have a suspicion they might have ended

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if teachers have told you something about your kids behavior the way before

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the school

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well give us a lot of intrigue you haven’t checked out you know you never

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know

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and i want to ask you out a little bit about your claim to fame of course

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extreme makeover home position

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what’s happening with the shower and a half

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we actually just finished our our second build

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are singing career starts in september it’s going to be a loss in season will

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really are

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is really careful to see a local heroes whether they be al

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you know teachers really stand out a community or our people to take care of

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kids but or even eight-year-old girls down some of my guess in a new system

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incredible it’ll surely or so

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it’s it’s communicable seeing kathy i really do have a great job in the world

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so i would definitely have some great shows coming up great families great

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communities are actually make it happen sela

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it’s uh… instantly great integrating the involvement

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all right i didn’t have a flight like she got got as quickly where to go find

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out more information that you need to take

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college tuition to get to go to our the media

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dot eighty h_d_ support group

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what’s important

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idiocy support dot com or you can get a finance dot com which is the widely in

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unseat

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all around but i’m thinking so much for joining us and grant best of luck

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everything from the sound of the magazine obviously got going on it’s

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great step

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hands-off grandview back ended that is all the best that we have for you today

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but make sure to check that out on time and at the entertainment section eight

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irish davis in new york thanks so much for watching this addition of what’s

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that