Oddly comforting this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNv4hBbu8K4

:eyebrow:

What in the world????

i dont get it

Cool! Love it! I get it! I understand, I am that little boy! And it took a teacher to figure it out! (I couldn't resist!)

MsD aka RADD

MsD, I'm so glad! I'm right there with you.

I'll leave it a while longer before talking anymore about it so as not to spoil the rush if there are others like MsD that cross this path. I was warmed from within seeing that little clip.


http://spreading.qarchive.org/screenshots/freeespirits/sunshinecards_170.jpg (http://spreading.qarchive.org/)

I wonder if others will see it like we do? You are right, we do not want to spoil the fun of seeing this little gem!

The soundtrack is wonderful but where's the film?

Try it again, it may be your internet provider, computer, or perhaps firewall? I am not a tech whiz, but something is off.

RADd

Ha! I can honestly say that's how I felt writing my paper for the last two days...

A brilliant piece of work takes time and sometimes it seems no one else gets it:cool:

Just a note to those that might be feeling off.

I didn't post this as some exclusive "in" joke type of thing. I was simply struck by how closely I related to it and was curious if others might find the same thing.
Art for arts sake.

http://static.flickr.com/21/27367899_0e9c64e8cb.jpg?v=0 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/27367899/in/set-72452/)

Yea I get it, but it took three times for me to. The first time I watched it I was like wtf. The second time I thought I got it but the third time I knew what I was looking for. . . so yea some take longer because oh I am I supposed to shut up now. . . ????

Ian, I can't agree more, I don't want to tell anyone what it is about, it would spoil the "AHA" moment for everyone. The ending was like a light in a dark room for me. I watched it twice, it is a complex little piece! I had to explain the whole thing to my husband-non-ADD! It didn't affect him like it did me.

Watch it and post your reaction, you might have to watch it several times. Don't give the meaning or message away, just let everyone have their moment of WOW, that's me and how I feel with ADD moment! The experience is kind of like buying a wonderful chocolate and eating it in glorious abandon! I want you all to feel the same way.

RADD

Ian...

Being on the 'receiving' end of 'youtube', many times..I, personally, 'refused' to 'watch' this link...initially...

In watching it, now, however, I can only *convey* that the 'message' contained within it, truly does encompass one's *determination* (and all the 'emotions' involved) in trying to 'be' understood, by the 'all'. (0;



Oddly comforting this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNv4hBbu8K4:eyebrow:

Ian...

Being on the 'receiving' end of 'youtube', many times..I, personally, 'refused' to 'watch' this link...initially...

In watching it, now, however, I can only *convey* that the 'message' contained within it, truly does encompass one's *determination* (and all the 'emotions' involved) in trying to 'be' understood, by the 'all'. (0;
Oh... I love it when your hackles are up! ;)

I am glad you watched it though. xox

This poem below will cue a few more, maybe. I found it (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19621&page=1&pp=15) through the ADDForums!

Linkage (http://www.motherswithattitude.com/contributors/misunderstood.html)

The Misunderstood Child
A poem about children with hidden disabilities

by Kathy Winters

I am the child that looks healthy and fine.
I was born with ten fingers and toes.
But something is different, somewhere in my mind,
And what it is, nobody knows.

I am the child that struggles in school,
Though they say that I'm perfectly smart.
They tell me I'm lazy -- can learn if I try --
But I don't seem to know where to start.

I am the child that won't wear the clothes
Which hurt me or bother my feet.
I dread sudden noises, can't handle most smells,
And tastes -- there are few foods I'll eat.

I am the child that can't catch the ball
And runs with an awkward gait.
I am the one chosen last on the team
And I cringe as I stand there and wait.

I am the child with whom no one will play --
The one that gets bullied and teased.
I try to fit in and I want to be liked,
But nothing I do seems to please.

I am the child that tantrums and freaks
Over things that seem petty and trite.
You'll never know how I panic inside,
When I'm lost in my anger and fright.

I am the child that fidgets and squirms
Though I'm told to sit still and be good.
Do you think that I choose to be out of control?
Don't you know that I would if I could?

I am the child with the broken heart
Though I act like I don't really care.
Perhaps there's a reason God made me this way --
Some message he sent me to share.

For I am the child that needs to be loved
And accepted and valued too.
I am the child that is misunderstood.
I am different - but look just like you.

ok i think i get it now! i know that this probably isn't supposed to be the point of it, but does anyone know what the end picture is supposed to be?? or what that yellowish box with the green line in it is?? ..its killin me!

Anyone on the forum speak Japanese? Read Kanji? I think it is an ad for something, but who knows what.

I am the child that fidgets and squirms
Though I'm told to sit still and be good.
Do you think that I choose to be out of control?
Don't you know that I would if I could?

I am the child with the broken heart
Though I act like I don't really care.
Perhaps there's a reason God made me this way --
Some message he sent me to share.

For I am the child that needs to be loved
And accepted and valued too.
I am the child that is misunderstood.
I am different - but look just like you.


Welcome to my world I am the dyslexic child with ADHD who was born a girl even though girls aren't supposed to be. . . .like me. . . . . :(




know what the end picture is supposed to be?? or what that yellowish box with the green line in it is?? ..its killin me!

Hint. . . one of the things I was looking when I went through it a third time . . . in the clip just before the part that shows his completed picture . . . shows a real life replica of the lone item in his drawing . . .

Ian do you have a clue how hard this is for the verbally impulsive??? . . . :eyebrow:

Ian do you have a clue how hard this is for the verbally impulsive??? . . . :eyebrow:
Oh, let her rip girl! Pop that cork, pluck those eyebrows, fill that tire, feed those chickens, shovel the drive and rip the lid off this thing. ;)

I'm don't think the chord struck was entirely in tune anyway do you?

wow. WOW. thanks SO much for posting this, Ian.

i get it now!! that box was the gym floor because he had the last piece in his hands! that took me wayyy too long lol.

I believe it's a 'line'..a 'seperator'...

I think it's a public service anouncement (for imagination?), not a "commercial" per se.

I'd like to see it in higher quality. YouTube is way pixely.

I think it's a public service anouncement (for imagination?), not a "commercial" per se.

I'd like to see it in higher quality. YouTube is way pixely.

ya, i copied n pasted the title into google and then some pages came up and google has a translate thingy so i made it in english and it said it was called like IMAGINATION/WHALE, i think. ya so i guess thats supposed to be a whale at the end..

For me as a person:

School is like being swallowed by a big fish existing alone in the middle of a huge dark place . . . . .

The world does not exist for me as it does of others. In a class room I was often alone. . . . in my concept.

While teachers were taught learning took place in small linier pieces for me learning took place in entire chunks. . . the big picture!


I am what is referred to as a global learner. . .

The child drew a big picture. . . . like me. . . no one understood what he was doing. . . he was an oddity. . . . . some thing had to be wrong with him . . . . because no one else understood, but the young boy knew what he was doing. . .it took him longer to communicate his idea, because he was drawing a big picture of an entire concept.

This is my personal perception but I am always off no matter what my interpretation. . . so how far off am I Ian ????

The Misunderstood Child
A poem about children with hidden disabilities

by Kathy Winters

I am the child that looks healthy and fine.
I was born with ten fingers and toes.
But something is different, somewhere in my mind,
And what it is, nobody knows.

I am the child that struggles in school,
Though they say that I'm perfectly smart.
They tell me I'm lazy -- can learn if I try --
But I don't seem to know where to start.

I am the child that won't wear the clothes
Which hurt me or bother my feet.
I dread sudden noises, can't handle most smells,
And tastes -- there are few foods I'll eat.

I am the child that can't catch the ball
And runs with an awkward gait.
I am the one chosen last on the team
And I cringe as I stand there and wait.

I am the child with whom no one will play --
The one that gets bullied and teased.
I try to fit in and I want to be liked,
But nothing I do seems to please.

I am the child that tantrums and freaks
Over things that seem petty and trite.
You'll never know how I panic inside,
When I'm lost in my anger and fright.

I am the child that fidgets and squirms
Though I'm told to sit still and be good.
Do you think that I choose to be out of control?
Don't you know that I would if I could?

I am the child with the broken heart
Though I act like I don't really care.
Perhaps there's a reason God made me this way --
Some message he sent me to share.

For I am the child that needs to be loved
And accepted and valued too.
I am the child that is misunderstood.
I am different - but look just like you

nice poem Ian, thanks...It made me sad :o

I saw it with English subtitles today. It is a public service ad about encouraging children. Makes a well illustrated point methinks. I am that child. And will always be! But I am beginning to think that I am not weird, other people are weird. (Truly, no one is weird, just not understood.) And you know, I think I will turn the tables on them and ask them if by chance they see things the wrong way. I will do it so tactfully and sweet, really-stop that snickering you stinkers-that people actually listen and hopefully get the picture I am trying to paint for them.

RADD

I saw it with English subtitles today. It is a public service ad about encouraging children. Makes a well illustrated point methinks.

How did you get English sub-titles? Any way I wasn't tooooooooo far off. . . .???????