{"id":61,"date":"2011-12-12T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T17:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addkenmerken.net\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T10:29:28","slug":"brad-worthley-on-add","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/brad-worthley-over-add\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Worthley and his views on labels like ADD and ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.addkenmerken.net%2Fen%2Fbrad-worthley-over-add%2F%3Futm_source%3Dsharebuttons%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook%26utm_campaign%3Dmashshare\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/?p=61&amp;via=krachtvanADHD\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ADD is a gift, not a disorder<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is exactly what I mean and was partly a reason for starting the website ADDcharacteristics.net. It is good if you recognise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/add-symptoms\/\">ADD<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/characteristics-of-adhd\/\">ADHD<\/a> is a trait with which you can achieve a lot. The fact that things may never have gone well on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/sir-ken-robinson-on-children-at-school-and-add-adhd\/\">school<\/a> has nothing to do with our <a title=\"Different forms of intelligence\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/forms-of-intelligence\/\">intelligence<\/a>. We are just not made for that.<\/p>\n<p>According to ADD-diagnosed Brad Wortley, AD(H)D is not a disorder but rather a gift.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below in which Brad Worthley tells how his life changed from the moment he stopped thinking his ADD is a disorder and instead started using it as a strength.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ADD is a Gift, Not a Disorder\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ufgme5B865w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brad Worthley wrote a book about it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17233 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ADD-is-a-gift-not-a-disorder.jpg\" alt=\"ADD is a gift, not a disorder\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ADD-is-a-gift-not-a-disorder.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ADD-is-a-gift-not-a-disorder-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADD is a gift, not a disorder This is exactly what I mean and was partly a reason for starting the website ADDcharacteristics.net....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1131,1506,1132,545,1143],"tags":[5,6,1276,132,29],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-add","category-add-adhd","category-adhd-artikelen","category-inspiratie","category-inspirerende-filmpjes","tag-add","tag-adhd","tag-filmpje","tag-gave","tag-stoornis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addkenmerken.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}