Jodie Sweetin: My ADHD is a Superpower

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Jodie Sweetin (Full House, Fuller House, Craft Me a Romance) discusses her work as “Stephanie Tanner” on Full House, living with ADHD and how she thinks it has helped her, and the importance of showing up as the parent you needed to have yourself. She explains how therapy and sobriety allow her to be a better parent and the importance of honesty in a parent-child relationship. Mayim and Jodie consider the need for prison reform after Jodie opens up about being adopted as a baby after she was born within the prison system. They discuss coping mechanisms in nature vs nurture and share their earliest childhood memories. Jodie reveals the top 5 things that keep her centered and ways she redirects feelings of wanting to run away into efforts of self-care.

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0:00.0	I have a great middle child story from Full House.
0:06.3	There's an episode in Full House where Jesse and Becky are moving out of the house.
0:11.6	Okay.
0:12.6	When Jesse moved into the house, he moved into Stephanie's old bedroom.
0:16.2	Correct.
0:17.2	With the pink bunnies.
0:18.2	Now the pink bunnies were supposedly hand cut by Pamela, Stephanie's mom, Jesse's sister.
0:24.7	Michelle gives Jesse the pink bunny or vice versa, something happened and I was like,
0:28.1	wow, but that's not I actually know what it's like to be a middle child.
0:35.3	It's my be all it's break down.
0:39.7	She's going to break it down for you because you know she knows a thing or two.
0:45.7	And now she's going to break down.
0:47.5	It's a breakdown.
0:48.7	She's going to break it down.
0:51.1	Mine be all it's break down is supported by third love.
0:54.1	Jonathan, I have news for you.
0:56.1	Tell me.
0:57.1	It's the first one that makes me look and feel amazing and it's actually super comfortable all day.
1:01.1	It's very exciting.
1:02.1	I wanted you to know that.
1:03.1	It is very exciting.
1:04.1	And I'm not just telling you.
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