103: Who Labeled You and What Did You Decide That Meant
Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill: Fat Loss, Hormones & Health for Women Over 40
Natalie Jill
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In the first ever Fit For Your Mind Friday Natalie shares her thoughts on "labels" and how we decide to look at those labels. Natalie shares her take on the label of ADHD as so many people labeled her as that due to her high energy and now....her daughter has begun to get that label.
So, how are you going to take these things and make them your super power? Take a look at how you've been labeled by others and redefine them. You are beautiful just the way you are.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fit for Your Mind Friday, where I share an insight from me to you. |
| 0:11.2 | Who labeled you and what did you decide about that label? |
| 0:15.7 | The other day, my daughter, she asked me, mom, what's ADHD? |
| 0:24.1 | What does that mean? And she wanted to know if she had it because she said that someone told her that she did and that she heard you need a pill to fix it. |
| 0:31.5 | Gosh, a flood of past memories just like completely hit me. I remember being in school hearing, pay attention, |
| 0:38.3 | Natalie. You'd be so smart if you would just apply yourself or stop daydreaming. Pay attention. |
| 0:46.4 | Sit still. Stop fidgeting. Slow down. You talk too fast. Gosh, that was a theme of a childhood for me. My whole youth, my whole |
| 0:58.5 | childhood, all through junior high, those are their comments. I pull out report cards now from |
| 1:03.3 | elementary school and I see those comments on there. I was labeled as ADD, ADHD, OCD even, I was even called learning disabled. I was always being put in a |
| 1:16.4 | box and labeled by teachers, guidance counselors, as if I needed to be defined and fixed so I could |
| 1:21.2 | be put in a normal box or something. My grades? Let's just say if I was interested in a subject, I got an A. And I wouldn't even |
| 1:30.3 | have to study for that. Or if I wasn't interested, I got a D. I was that kind of student. |
| 1:36.6 | But you see, there was a theme. I would over succeed and thrive when I was interested. |
| 1:41.0 | Or I would tune out and daydream if I was not. Now, I'm lucky. I'm grateful. I had those parents |
| 1:47.1 | that didn't ever judge me around it. They didn't try to fix me because of my grades. |
| 1:51.5 | In fact, I remember one time, I was like 15 years old and I said to my mom and dad, I want to get a |
| 1:56.1 | job because I want to make money. And my mom said, I don't want you to get a job because I want you to study. |
| 2:03.5 | And my dad interrupted her and said, she's not going to study anyway. She might as well make money. |
| 2:08.5 | God, he knew me so well. You see, to me, ADHD is a gift. It allowed me to be creative beyond thrive |
| 2:15.8 | and actual interests. And it taught me how to enroll others in vision, |
| 2:19.7 | creativity, passions. It taught me how to thrive despite others' opinions on how to continually |
| 2:25.6 | think outside the box and dismiss and ignore judgment. It taught me to find creative solutions always. |
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