Peter Shankman
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330 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
Peter Shankman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were better ways to be a human being.
But
Throughout all the time I never thought I had AHD, I never thought I was different.
I just was me, you know.
D didn't think
uh was anything different about it, but w what I didn't know at the time was I was figuring out ways to
be better, ways to act better, ways to work better, ways to live better.
And all the things I were doing, I just thought that they were just me being told I was weird, strange and different and not normal and
Th it was those kind of things though that led me to eventually realizing when I finally did get diagnosed in my mid thirties, like, holy crap, I have been self medicating for twenty plus years, but in a healthy way.
I've essentially been I've been figuring out and implementing ways to create the serotonin dopamine and adrenaline that my body doesn't produce because I have ADHD naturally.
You know, so I wasn't like going on cocaine binges or anything stupid like that.
I was, you know, I became a licensed skydiver.
I have over four hundred jumps.
I've done Iron Man triathlons.
I figured out a way to turn my I've never had a real job.
I had one real job in my life with America Online and and I've been on my own for the last nineteen years and I could never imagine working for someone else because that's sort of just how I how I live and how I exist.
And and in doing that, you have to create sort of these rules and these rituals and regulations for yourself.
They have to follow, otherwise you're in trouble.
So
What I realize is that I've been doing all that.
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