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The ADHD Foundation's Umbrella Project in Church Alley Liverpool
The dazzling canopy, which features bright red, blue, green and yellow umbrellas, is part of an initiative to raise awareness, and to celebrate, ADHD, autism and neurodiversity.
200 Umbrellas have been used in an art intalation to highlight issues with ADHD and Autism, both processing issues.
Two hundred colourful umbrellas were suspended over Church Alley in Liverpool. The rainbow brolly installation was launched to raise awareness of ADHD and has been created by Liverpool-based ADHD Foundation, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary as a charity this year.
The Umbrella Project was named by children who work with the ADHD Foundation because ADHD and autism are ‘umbrella terms’ for a whole variety of neurodevelopment difficulties.
This is what the inside of my brain feels like sometimes. The Vyvanse helps, but it can't help all the time.
Kensington Market
September 12, 2022
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
It was just before Thanksgiving of 2011. Jo and I both worked for local school systems and were looking forward to Thanksgiving break when the phone rang. It was our good friends with a travel proposal…I was an instant yes before they even started to dial!
The weather had been gray for a while and they had decided to take a trip to the Keys to escape. They had rented a place with two bedrooms and out of the kindness of their hearts offered us one for free. Neither Jo or I thought it would be possible to get off work between Thanksgiving and Christmas break but decided to test the waters. We both approaching our bosses with the opportunity at the first chance. To our surprise, they both agreed saying…a free room…you have to go! Less than a week after Thanksgiving we were in the air!
Leaving a cold, gray Indiana and landing in Miami on a warm sunny day hit me like a suffocating man receiving a fresh breath of air…my soul instantly rehydrated in the sunshine and warm ocean breezes.
As we passed from key to key, exploring shops and restaurants along the way, the appreciation of the timely escape grew. Once we arrived at our destination, Marathon Key, it was time to relax and enjoy. Unfortunately for this kid, relaxation is rarely on the menu as my ADHD screams in my ear about how adventure always awaits in new places!
On this day 13 years ago, we decided to explore several of the local keys. The ladies shopped while the men waited. At one particular shop I couldn’t take the relaxing on a bench watching people go by anymore. I grabbed my camera and decided to walk out in an adjacent field to hunt for critters. Once I stepped around the corner of the shops, a canal behind the shops came into view…my heart instantly filled with hope of finding something cool!
I made my way through the tall grasses, weeds and other vegetation of the field, all of which will cut you, in my shorts and flipflops. Now standing on a rock wall looking down into the canal…nothing…nothing but an oddly curved stormwater pipe directly below. I scanned the water below, above and the skyline for any movement, nothing. And then the assumed drain pipe started moving. It was a lone manatee feeding on the wall!
Either it didn’t know that I was there, or it didn’t care but instead of fleeing the area as others had done before, it just gently surfaced and opened its nostrils to take in a breath. The distance from its nose to mine was probably 6-7 feet. My need to capture photographs of God’s creations is only outweighed by my desire to connect with His nature, eye to eye without threat. I took this shot and a few more, then went to my knees to just look into each other’s eyes. It took several more breaths and then submerged, moving on its way down the canal.
It would be very easy to sit here at my computer on this cold November day in Indiana with our first accumulating snow to start later today and wish that I was back in the Keys. But I do not. Instead, I am thinking about the chances of my encounter, the blessing of this encounter with my friend captured here. I am reminded of my favorite saying; one I have shared with thousands of young people:
Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened!
Dr. Seuss
Seven Eight Flat Art Machine sticker collage featuring: Faro, Bloke, Avoid PI, Cahbazm, the ADHD, Droid, T.Hanks, Penelope, Train to Pokipse, Venom 84, Mikey, Egg Yolk, infinity, Kid Anthrax, Black Cat, ADHD Nation, Grose, Royce Bannon, and Sadue.
Thank You to all the artists for donating works to Seven Eight Vend
Sir George Frederick Still (1868-1941) The father of British pediatrics.
England’s first professor in child medicine presented on 4th, 6th and 11th March 1902 a series of three lectures to the Royal College of Physicians in London, under the name “ Goulstonian lectures” on ‘some abnormal psychical conditions in children’, which were published later the same year in the Lancet. He described 43 children who had serious problems with sustained attention and self-regulation, who were often aggressive, defiant, resistant to discipline, excessively emotional or passionate, who showed little inhibitory volition, had serious problems with sustained attention and could not learn from the consequences of their actions; though their intellect was normal.
Our dictator in chief has done a few things this week...tried to silence media and scientists, harm the environment, generally continued to treat facts as fantasy and his own opinions as facts, reduced funding for countries with pro choice family planning options, severely limited immigration, threatened to build a wall, started to dismantle our health care system.
Pretty much, the billionaires don't care about the poor and somehow there are still people who voted for him that didn't see this coming. We have a Putin backed Oligarchy in the white house right now and they don't care about public education, the rights of people with disabilities, or the rights pretty much of anyone who isn't a white rich man.
Goldman Sachs and the conservative agenda is running our country and the world. In the midst of this, Trump announced that he might send in the Feds to Chicago to get our violence problem under control....or does he mean his protest problem?
It'll only be a matter of time before this horror becomes the new normal and our ADHD ridden world seems to forget from day to day the savagery wreaked upon them.
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Seen on a wall in Blackpool.
Fun facts: the butterfly has been chosen as an international symbol for people with ADHD. Many people in the UK criminal justice system have been identified as being affected by ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) (whether they have been diagnosed formally or not). The waiting list for a diagnosis in England varies (according to which health trust you fall under) between 12 weeks and 10 years. One of the characteristics of ADHD is impulsive behavior.
bakers bakers all in a row.
stir the ingredients to make the dough.
eggs and bugs and faces and feelings.
put it all together and all i have is reelings.
my brain has no filter no filter to use
i can't separate my hand from my shoes.
i should feel sad but your face makes me laugh.
i should understand the math but i'm as dumb as a bum.
so what to do, what to say
all i can do is live my life this way.
when i was young they said i was lazy
they said it so much that it made me crazy.
my life has round edges, no more sharp hard sides,
i can't be bothered with listening to your bad vibes.
i am who i am,
love me or no
i know in the end we all must go.
so ADHD go ahead with your breeze
I realize we all have some kind of disease.
whether hard heart, hard drink hard head or hard luck.
your life is your own, but......you soul is your buck.
so take that buck and give it away.
give it to someone who will love you your way.
there's no money, no fame, no glory no gold
in the end you are just what you mold.
so mold that buck into a fortune of love
love conquers all and to all a good nite.
The Umbrella Project in Hanley Stoke on Trent.
Quote from the website "The Stoke-On-Trent Trent City Centre BID in partnership with the ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity and many local businesses are bringing an uplifting and iconic public art installation to Stoke on-Trent City Centre in July 2022.
The Neurodiversity Umbrella Project is a national arts installation which raises the awareness and understanding of our cognitive and learning differences, and celebrates the intelligence, talents and employability of every human being.
A vibrant canopy of hundreds of colourful umbrellas suspended above high streets and public spaces, it is designed to represent 1 in 5 people whom are neurodiverse and recognise the many positive strengths and abilities that comes with learning and thinking differently."
Havent posted in a while! Have yet another WIP that will take me forever to finally release! YAAAAAY ADHD!
SL name: Maddie Diker. Before & After of my second ADHD Awareness photo and October Pose Fair Contest Entry.
Just to show how much can be done with a simple prop and a little imagination.
Mask prop "Two Face" by Po^Z at the 2018 Pose Fair.
Kuifmees is van het type ADHD, gelukkig toch een aantal keer goed op de foto kunnen zetten.
Zie ook mijn vogel set: Birds
© 2015 Wim Boon
Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my permission.
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The Studios, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays
Devised by Liverpool-based ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Foundation, the Umbrella Project was launched on the 28th June inside the main foyer of The Studios, and celebrates the gifts, talents and employability of those with ADHD, autism and other neuro-developmental disorders. Every umbrella has been signed by a child stating ‘My Super Power is….’ as part of a wider education programme with participating schools in Merseyside and Salford in a dynamic twin city project and now the University Technical College at MediaCityUK and Oakwood Academy in Eccles.
It follows the phenomenal success of last year, when the Umbrella Project first appeared on Church Alley in Liverpool city centre becoming the most Instagrammed street in the city during the summer. As well as MediaCityUK, the art installation is also returning to Church Alley the same day.
Businesses in Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester are invited to get involved with the Umbrella Project by sponsoring an umbrella for just £100, which will buy a whole programme of support for families.
The installation is quite vivid and striking, even from across the North Bay and Lowry theatre, but with all the foyer lights on in the evening it lost a little of its impact, hence my colour-popped version to re-focus on the project.