Jeff Rasmussen[content-block title="Meet Jeff Rasmussen" color="orange"]
Age: 18
City: Langley, BC
Diagnosed with ADHD in Grade 7
Biggest Dream: I want to change the world for younger kids like me who are punished daily for having ADHD.
Fave Class: Mechanics "I've got the plans in my head for a motorized scooter with a gas-powered engine that I'm actually capable of building."
ADHD Superpower: "If I'm determined to do something, literally nothing can stop me. Nothing. Not bribes, not bullets... nothing."
Fave Food: Hashbrowns (the kind you buy frozen, in a bag)
Career Goals: Telecommunications Guru
Life-Changing Event: Winning the WDS Scholarship for Real Life
School Achievement: Completing Math & Socials 10 in just 8 weeks this summer. "School's like 99% fluff. Summer school is that, minus the fluff."
Biggest Struggle: Even though I take medication I still have trouble staying on task, doing boring homework, remembering not to swear when I am angry or staying still through assemblies. (That's where some of my strategies come in.)
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My ADHD has been really bad and given me every bad experience you can imagine for a kid. Before medication teachers took away my recess, my gym classes, they put me in the hall, I have been suspended from school, and I never did my work because even though my tests say I’m “gifted” I couldn’t do it. When I first learned I had ADHD I was so happy that I wasn’t bad or broken, it had a name and an explanation for what was going on.
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