I'm A Celeb: Sam Thompson discusses ADHD diagnosis with campmatesI’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV
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00:00 My timekeeping's terrible.
00:01 Sometimes I get quite selfish where like,
00:04 and this is not just with her,
00:05 it's with like everyone, like my mates or whatever.
00:07 My listening to Zara, whenever she's talking something,
00:10 like Zara will listen to me, I'll come back full of energy.
00:12 Be like, "Oh, you'll never guess what I've just done."
00:15 And then I'll be like, "What have you done?"
00:16 And she'll go, "Well, I've been on my own."
00:18 And I'm just finding myself like staring off
00:20 at something completely different.
00:21 And she's like, "You're not even listening to me."
00:23 And you sort of feel like you're a bit of a knob sometimes.
00:25 'Cause you're like.
00:26 - But you would not be Sam without it.
00:28 I would just say that you've always got loads of energy.
00:31 - I have dick.
00:32 - Yeah, you're not a dick.
00:32 - Like seriously bro, you're not a dick man.
00:34 Like your energy is crazy bro.
00:36 And it's like what makes you great.
00:38 - He is literally one of the most fascinating people
00:41 I've ever met.
00:42 You know, I can't think of anybody that has the energy
00:45 that Sam has and that's what's great about him.
00:47 - Weird, no one really spotted it beforehand at school.
00:50 But if you look at all my report cards,
00:52 every single one says the same.
00:53 - Really?
00:54 - It's like, "Likeable enough guy, but lacks focus."
00:58 It's like staring you in the face.
01:00 If I had known as a kid, not much would have changed.
01:04 But like how you feel about yourself probably changes.
01:07 I remember crying into my textbooks.
01:09 I was like, "I can't understand the words
01:10 that are going into my head."
01:12 And I was so bummed out.
01:13 And then like, just you wanna do good.
01:16 Like you don't wanna be mischievous or anything like that.
01:18 So you're like, "Right, I'm gonna do this."
01:20 And you're like, "Open your little textbook.
01:21 Here we go."
01:22 You get your little colored pens out.
01:23 You're like, "This is it."
01:24 - Yeah.
01:25 - "I'm gonna be a teacher's pet."
01:26 And you just can't focus on it.
01:28 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:29 - It's so hard.
01:30 I'm not like ashamed of having ADHD in any way.
01:34 But you know, I know that I would have felt better
01:37 about myself at school if I had been diagnosed
01:40 with it at a younger age.
01:43 Because I really was just like,
01:44 "Oh God, I just suck at everything."