BGT: Bruno pushes golden buzzer for school music teacher EXCLUSIVE Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Taryn Charles has a message for fellow ADHD sufferers: “It’s very good to listen to that inner voice but sometimes you need to tell it to shut up!” Music teacher Taryn, 39, who was put through to next week's live finals on a Golden Buzzer from Bruno, only recently had her condition confirmed. “I was undiagnosed [with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder] for 39 years,” she revealed. She now calls it her “superpower”, and has been working with children on ADHD, and on the autistic spectrum, teaching them music.
“I've always known that I've had it because I've always worked so closely with children that have ADHD and autism. “But as an adult, you're just told, ‘You've gone this far. You just get over it’.
Or people go, ‘Well, everyone's got ADHD’. It can be really demeaning because you think, ‘Actually, if everyone had ADHD, the whole world wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning!” But she does tell young sufferers to sometimes ignore the ADHD “voice” in their heads. “I showed them videos of me singing and I said, ‘Before I went on the stage I was crying, I couldn't do it.
And I had to tell myself, I could do it’. The inner voice shouldn't be something that stops you from doing anything.” Taryn Charles agreed her BGT breakthrough had been a long time coming.
“I wasn't in the right place to do music when I was younger, .
