Chloe Kim Wishes Her ADHD Diagnosis Came Sooner: “It Doesn't Have to Be So Hard”

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It makes sense that I'm an athlete. [As a child], I was always going to the hospital for jumping too high or hurting myself or breaking my arm. When I started snowboarding, all of that energy got funneled into my sport, which is a symptom of ADHD I didn't know about. You can hyper-fixate on one thing, and for me, that was snowboarding. Snowboarding became my life. But when I wasn't snowboarding . . . I didn't know how to manage. I forgot appointments and plans I made with friends. I didn't feel like myself. Getting diagnosed and discovering that everything had an [explanation] was the most…

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