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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.42,0:00:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I don't remember a time that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.80,0:00:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't feel it was an issue but
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.49,0:00:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I, it wasn't diagnosed until adulthood.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.37,0:00:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Mmhmm.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.01,0:00:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we take care of our dental health.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.41,0:00:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't take care of our mental health.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.62,0:00:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People go get their teeth checked.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.96,0:00:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): And it rhymes too.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.25,0:00:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does. That's why I say it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.88,0:00:27.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I was growing up. You know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.12,0:00:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I'm in my mid-50s. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.34,0:00:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even ADHD was not an issue in school.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.34,0:00:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean nobody talked about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.42,0:00:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seems prevalent now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.83,0:00:37.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I would imagine there's \Njust as many kids now
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.27,0:00:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That have it as had it when I was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.45,0:00:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It just wasn't identified \Nwhen I was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.90,0:00:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was troubled.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.04,0:00:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was outrageous you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.93,0:00:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't. I wasn't just the kid
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.70,0:00:48.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The class clown that had, you know, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.41,0:00:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a funny quip from the back of the class.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.100,0:00:52.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I was outrageous.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.28,0:00:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would, you know.\N(interviewer): Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.79,0:00:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd call the yellow pages and
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.94,0:00:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hired companies to bid on an
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.30,0:00:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,addition to the library.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.95,0:01:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there would be uh people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.05,0:01:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There would be people outside measuring
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.53,0:01:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the principal would go outside
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.19,0:01:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say, "What are you doing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.91,0:01:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'd say "We're from so-and-so \Nconstruction company and we're gonna"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.70,0:01:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"bid on the addition".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.43,0:01:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he'd say, "Who authorized the addition?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.75,0:01:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they would say, "Howie Mandel"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.98,0:01:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave them my name.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.80,0:01:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Laughter
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.26,0:01:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.84,0:01:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only way I could talk to girls
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.25,0:01:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is I would go into the girl's restroom
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.17,0:01:22.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cause I didn't look like a boy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.54,0:01:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brush my hair in the mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.34,0:01:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And talk to girls who came in.\N(interviewer): Did you really?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.57,0:01:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.07,0:01:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): You must be joking.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.87,0:01:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter).
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.33,0:01:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No I'm not.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.03,0:01:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where my wife met me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.40,0:01:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't finish,\NI didn't finish high school.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.16,0:01:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have a GED.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.28,0:01:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can I still be in ABILITY?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.12,0:01:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Yes. Laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.97,0:01:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): What about your wife?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.33,0:01:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is not in school anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.13,0:01:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.19,0:01:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): She's off to a cabin?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.20,0:01:48.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is. We've been together over 30 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.38,0:01:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We celebrated our 31st anniversary.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.13,0:01:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we got married I was doing \Nstand-up comedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.100,0:01:53.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next night I was playing Yuk Yuk's.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.32,0:01:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I uh, invited her on the stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.68,0:01:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She sat in a stool on the stage
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.87,0:02:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was doing stand-up.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.50,0:02:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause that's how I got my tickets. That's how,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.67,0:02:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They flew me back up there \Ncause I got a gig.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.02,0:02:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's how I afforded to go to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.19,0:02:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own wedding.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.24,0:02:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then she. The next night \NTerry was sitting.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.66,0:02:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said that, you know, regardless \Nof how the show goes,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.03,0:02:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to welcome everybody \Nto my honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.80,0:02:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.13,0:02:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.89,0:02:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was our honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.88,0:02:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't go anywhere. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.86,0:02:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She just sat on stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.92,0:02:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the comedy club in Toronto.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.73,0:02:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.44,0:02:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For three, four nights straight.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.53,0:02:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪(electronic music)♪
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.24,0:02:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I, I masked it for many, many, many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.77,0:02:30.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where I'd, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.75,0:02:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I shook hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.59,0:02:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see me shaking hands in old videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.64,0:02:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my uhm, you know, \Neven right up to my talk show.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.43,0:02:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd shake everybody's hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.14,0:02:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was living, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.42,0:02:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I hid a lot of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.47,0:02:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I didn't, she was not in the,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.26,0:02:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the, in the bathroom with me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.68,0:02:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I'm scalding my hands, and so,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.46,0:02:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I didn't really let her in on that, but
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.38,0:02:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she knew that I was, like, obsessed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.62,0:02:56.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with, you know, washing my hands.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.29,0:02:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Mmhm.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.07,0:02:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, I could also,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.02,0:02:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could also cover it with logic, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.47,0:03:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Mmhm.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.98,0:03:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's make a path of \Nthis hotel room with towels
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.51,0:03:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause you don't know when, what's
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.81,0:03:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dripped all over this carpet.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.92,0:03:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she would walk along my path.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.20,0:03:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.26,0:03:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's take the comforter off the bed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.88,0:03:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the salad tongs,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.88,0:03:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause you don't know what's on the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.17,0:03:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): I agree (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.69,0:03:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, and she thought I was like a,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.46,0:03:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the blacklight bothered her.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.49,0:03:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.32,0:03:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went and spoke up in Capitol Hill.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.79,0:03:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and uhh. I tried to, that's where I lend
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.72,0:03:33.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my time and uh that's what I support.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.57,0:03:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I uh, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.29,0:03:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly it's just about trying to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.46,0:03:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remove the stigma. Because I think there's
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.48,0:03:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of help out there and I think a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.53,0:03:44.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people could use the help and uh
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.98,0:03:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as I said before, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.61,0:03:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my whole thing is that, I don't think
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.01,0:03:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's anybody alive that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.51,0:03:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could not benefit from
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.60,0:03:59.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a professional mental health person
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.15,0:04:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, being a part of their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.76,0:04:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know. And I would imagine there still is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.36,0:04:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stigma attached to that. But I, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.27,0:04:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't really take care of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.36,0:04:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now I'm taking care of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.26,0:04:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at me. (Laughs).
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.52,0:04:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in ABILITY magazine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.92,0:04:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(interviewer): Laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.08,0:04:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪(electronic music)♪