Famous People with ADHD and Other Learning Disabilities: Outside the Box

Famous people with ADHD and other learning disabilities turn out to be creative, intelligent, and successful people. They tend to be people who think outside the box. Their encouraging stories speak volumes to children in the same position. Children need help overcoming their learning disabilities so they can focus their talents on their true future endeavors. If they have help to overcome their disabilities, nothing can hold them back.

Danielle Fisher, youngest person to climb the Seven Summits  http://web.archive.org/web/20060427141523/www.daniellefisher.com/biography.cfm

Paul Orfalea, CEO of Kinko's http://www.abilitymagazine.com/past/Natalie_Glebova/Paul_Kinko.html

Ty Pennington   http://www.abilitymagazine.com/TY_Pennington.html

Amazing people with ADHD

http://www.adhdtexas.com/famouspeople.htm

Young adult finds ADHD to be a gift

http://www.tom-brown.com/articles/ADHD-gift/

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