Name: Advice On Dealing with ADHD & Low Self Worth | Bill Burr
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Advice On Dealing with ADHD & Low Self Worth | Bill Burr' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-28. Transcript available.

what was I talking, public school system.
Yeah, it gives you all of these ideas about yourself,
most of them negative, most of them limited.
Beyond teaching you to read and write,
like they get you into some sort of like popular
and not popular sort of pecking order.
You get this, you're sort of like,
here, here's a book, read this, learn this,
be tested on this.
And you start getting this idea
that life is just a series of people older than you
telling you to do shit that you don't wanna do.
And you don't really get this thing in your head
that, you know, when you go out into the world,
you're free to do what you wanna do
and you're free to make like decisions.
So one of the things that I got in my head
was that I had an inability to learn another language.
And what was really going on was the beginning
of my childhood trauma started affecting my grades.
And I had like massive, massive, massive ADD, massive.
Like I remember it used to take me like 20 minutes
to read a page in a book.
It felt like everything that I was reading
made me think of something else.
And for a long time, I was like, oh, I just had like ADD.
I think a lot of my inability to focus
had to do with a lot of the shit that happened to me.
That someday, I don't know.
I've always wrestled if I would ever like
really delve into that stuff in some form.
But I really feel like I want to
because I know that that stuff continues to happen to kids
and you get like this, just this negative sense of self.
Because I can definitely tell you
that the younger me never would have thought
that I would be able to learn French.
Never would have thought
that I would be able to get through ground school,
get a pilot's license.
Never thought that I would have the courage
to go on stage, to become a comedian.
Never thought that, you know,
all of this shit that I'm doing,
like I didn't think any of it was possible.
But fortunately, I met a few people,
you know, as I was just sort of ping pong
and bouncing around in life
that just somehow eventually led me into a comedy club.
And through stand-up comedy
and doing well as a comedian,
it gave me a belief system in myself
and made me then look at the public school education
in a different light.
And I discovered things like I enjoy reading,
which is not something that you think
going through the public school system
when you're constantly told to read shit
you have no interest in whatsoever.
Especially, you know, when you're a kid
and you want to go run around and play sports
and you become a teenager
and you're falling in love
and, you know, puppy love and all of that.
Yeah, I want to fucking read Beowulf.
What the fuck am I reading this shit for?
Hey, Bill, what did you think of that story?
I fucking thought it sucked, you know?
It took me like nine hours to read it.
However, I can read the sports page in five seconds.
And sports are not dumb.
They're amazing.
Sports are fucking amazing.
And if you play sports, it's fucking amazing.
And what it does for you
and what you learn
and learning through winning and losing
and learning more through losing
and how to pick yourself up
and all of that shit.
Fucking reading.
That's the one that just stuck out
where I just really felt like
I'm just fucking dumb.
That fucking Beowulf.
I don't know who wrote it,
when.
It was super old.
And it's in this old fucking English.
And I'm just sitting there reading this shit.
Like, I had a hard enough time
reading modern English.
And I'm reading this shit.
I had no fucking idea what it's about.
And then I get tested on it.
And I flunk it.
And then, like, they're, you know,
they're calling your parents
because I don't understand
a fucking story, you know,
written fucking a thousand years ago.
Like, I'm going to go out in the world
and have a job interview
when the guy across from me
is going to be talking
like William Shakespeare.
This was the stupidest fucking thing.
Really dumb.
Anyway.
So don't give up on yourself
because of however you did in school
or whatever your pecking order was.
And fuck all of that stuff.
It's stupid.
The whole thing is stupid.
And all of those people,
you never see them again.
And they have all of this influence
on your life.