My+Life+with+ADHD



I'm a gymnast. Gymnastics takes up a lot of time. I go 4 days each week, and every practice is 4 hours long. As surprising as it might be, most kids on my team have ADHD. This is most likely because gymnastics requires a lot of very different things that change quickly. There are 6 events with an amazing number of different skills that you can do. We stretch and condition (doing strength that mainly focuses on your abdominal strength, upper body strength, lower body strength, hip strength, and muscle endurance) for an hour at the beginning of practice. We stay focused throughout because of all the changes in body position, and exact precision that is only held for a few moments. It's quite impressive how many athletes actually have ADHD or ADD!

===ADHD has effected my life socially in a way where my brain is moving way faster than my body and I may not think about how I should say something so I just say it how I thought it, and it sounds direct, mean, extremely opinionated and, sometimes, selfish.===

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