Personal Narrative: My Experience With ADHD

I was eight years old at the time my mother told me I was adopted. Unfortunately, being young and immature made me clueless about how to handle the feeling of abandonment. The feelings hindered me emotionally. I also suffered from severe ADHD during elementary school and middle school as well. Due to the emotional state I was in, I was bullied for years on end about my attention issues and about how sensitive I was. Girls called me a freak and boys disassociated with me. Kids even picked on my twin sister because of her personal issues, which always lead them back to me. I made an effort to rid myself of emotion and my ADHD all together, by taking all sorts of medicines. The medicines ultimately lead to an increase in weight gain, causing …show more content…
Wrestling gave me the ability to adapt to my surroundings, and overcome all the mental hardships I carried in my life, wrestling shaped me into a fine man. Throughout high school, I suffered frequent hardships that a teenager should never endure. My freshman year, I formed a relationship with a lovely young lady whose dad engaged in knocking her and her mom around, therefore I always spent time protecting them. Unfortunately, my grandmother passed on, and three weeks later, my grandfather passed away. To sum it up high school was horrific experience for me, after my grandfather's passing, my girlfriend parted ways with me for another man as a result of my weight gain. A motivational fuse lit within me which made all the agony become a necessary mindset for bettering myself. I never gave myself the option to throw in the towel when I was down. I had countless goals by the end of summer, I trained hard and I dropped thirty pounds. I also forced myself down to a staggering ten percent body fat. Thenceforth, I worked my tail off during school in order to compete as a starter on the varsity wrestling team, (which I also accomplished). The years were getting increasingly difficult and more stressful, but I never gave