Channing Tatum (b.1980) is a movie actor. Particularly famous for the Jump Street series, the Magic Mike series, White House Down and Fox Catcher. In 2022 Time Magazine named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Channing was diagnosed with ADHD as a child.
US Weekly (2014)
“I have never considered myself a very smart person, for a lot of reasons, not having early success on that one path messes with you.”
“You get lumped in classes with kids with autism and Down syndrome, and you look around and say, Okay, so this is where I’m at,” “Or you get put in the typical classes and you say, All right, I’m obviously not like these kids either. So you’re kind of nowhere. You’re just different. The system is broken”.
“While Tatum may not consider himself “smart,” he made a rather brilliant decision self-financing his 2012 movie Magic Mike, which is based on his stint as a stripper, with director Steven Soderbergh. The movie, which cost $7 million to make, has earned over $167 million to date, making Tatum a millionaire many, many times over”.
Vanity Fair (2013)
“It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.”
“he’ll never medicate his child for learning disabilities. “I truly believe some people need medication,” he says. “I did not. I did better at school when I was on it, but it made me a zombie.”…“ For a time, it would work well. Then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression”