Personal Narrative: ADHD

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Have you ever felt like your biggest competition was yourself? I sure did, it was a huge obstacle from how jittery I would get from day to day, how I couldn't even keep seated, how I couldn't learn. This all started early in elementary school, and as a normal little kid, we all get hyper and distracted. However, my condition was worse; imagine drinking 5 cups of coffee when you wake up, feeling like that was your normal. My mind raced like an Audi on the Autobahn. To fix this, my parents introduced me to a capsule used to treat ADHD. At first, all of this was purely a blessing, but years later it started to have some repulsive side effects. We tried switching medications: Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin; we tried them all. Eventually the pills

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