Dr. Ellen Braaten

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I am an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

So I have both of these wonderful parts to my work where I'm working with kids and also getting to study.

Them as well.

And so my first book really came out of the fact that I was seeing a lot of kids struggling to sort of keep up.

And a lot of them had learning disabilities or ADHD, but not all of them did.

I think I first started thinking about that book about 12 years ago or so.

So I wrote the book.

I've studied that, what we call processing speed issues.

And in the last five to six years, I was seeing a lot of kids who were having troubles getting motivated, staying motivated.

And what I found was, well, what I thought was that many of those kids were the bright kids who couldn't keep up who were growing up.

And so I thought, oh, maybe it's just kids with processing speed issues, because that was sort of my area of research and my

But a lot of kids didn't have issues with processing speed.

They didn't have any kind of issues.

Maybe they were a little anxious or a little depressed, but they were really just feeling meh about life.

And their parents were calling me worried.

And so that's really the area that I became interested in.

And in 2019, I approached my publisher, because they were eager for me to write another book.

I said, what about a book sort of about kids who couldn't care less?

And actually, our working title was Bright Kids Who Don't Give A and You Can Just Fill In the Blank.

And it was really about kids who that had a lot of issues, really significant.

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