Star of the stand-up comedy special Big Guy, Rachel Feinstein talks about her ADHD journey, from adrenaline highs to rejection lows (and how she’s always losing her passport).
Star of the stand-up comedy special Big Guy, Rachel Feinstein talks about her ADHD journey, from adrenaline highs to rejection lows .Rachel Feinstein finds herself in some ridiculous situations courtesy of her ADHD . Because she’s been gifted with a razor-sharp sense of humor, she takes these unlikely, sometimes absurd moments and turns them intois now streaming on Netflix, where it premiered in the Top 10.
So, for example, an editor expressed interest in working with me on my Netflix special, but I knew I was never going to go through it and email him time codes. So I said to the editor: ‘I’m going to come to your house and sit with you and edit every line with you.’ I don’t think he thought I was going to really do that. Then I was over at his place — just me and him and his wife in his little apartment.
My mom said I was always friends with people who had very distinct personalities and accents — it woke me up, jolted me. That’s true to this day; I’m married to a Brooklyn firefighter pronounced “fiya fida.”When I’m on stage, I get a very immediate reaction: it either works or it doesn’t. I am addicted to it, the way my husband’s addicted to the adrenaline rush of being a firefighter. This also helps me as an editing process: I know what works and what doesn’t, and I shed, shed, shed as I go.
I really didn’t know how to keep a job and I kept getting fired from everything — waitressing, bartending. Then I started nannying for this five-year-old boy withI remember I’d tell him, ‘Go put that in the trash can and come right back,’ and he’d get caught between where we were sitting and the trash can. I’d see him get almost there and then get lost. I really related to the feeling of making it halfway to what you were supposed to do.
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