Billgrip- A.D.D. Speech

Yesterday I posted the video of my A.D.D. speech that I gave my senior year of high school. I've had it on my computer for quite sometime now, but I finally decided to go ahead and post it...mostly so I could delete it off my computer and watch it on youtube when I'm like 50.

I wrote the speech about a day before districts and my speech coach said that if I practiced it 10 times I could probably make it to state...but I only ended up practicing it 8 times. It ended up that only the top 2 go to state, and I was bummed because I got third. I honestly don't think it would have mattered if I would have practiced it 10 times because the speech judges were obviously smoking crack.

The top 2 speeches were both from females and neither speech made me laugh. I'm not sexist, but I just find that very females have the capacity of actually being legitimately funny. The only thing was that they had props for their speech. The only props for my speech was myself. But I thought that the joke I made about my lack of props and how I forgot them would be enough to compensate for my lack of props.

I guess I was wrong.

Oh well, the speech still ended up going pretty well, and I got to give it again at our home speech night where everyone in speech presents to a home crowd. I feel that I did really well on it that night, and that was the night that you guys saw on the video.

Last year I took a speech class and I pretty much kicked butt at it and got an A with flying colors. Giving a speech is just something that I really don't have a problem to. However, I'm not going to sit here and lie to you by pretending it is easy. I get nervous just like everyone else, but even though I get nervous, I use my nervousness and the adrenaline caused my nervousness to enhance my speech. That is why I felt really comfortable giving an entertainment speech about A.D.D, because I could realease my nervousness in the form of movement, which made the A.D.D. effect more real.

Anyways, I hope you all liked the video, and I do have some plans for more videos soon. I am hoping to make one this weekend. I find that the more videos I make, the easier ideas come to me. You might be seeing more of Crazy Charles from the Trick or Treat video...but no guarantees that will be my next video.

Well, thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for supporting my hobby of making videos. Have a great week,

-billgrip