ADHD scholarship essay

I have been blessed with living with ADHD for the entirety of my life. For the majority of my life, I relied heavily on treating ADHD with various different pharmaceuticals. In school, I was regularly being ridiculed and shamed for my impulsive behaviors, which wasn’t the most comforting experience. I can also remember being an intensely creative and outspoken little runt, who enjoyed reading books about science and human biology. I came to rely heavily on these medicines as I entered into college, and started exploring my different passions. I had this mindset that I would never be able to survive off of my medicine, and I came to see them as a necessity to function properly in this world. I succeeded in community college by getting into the Honors Program, and was able to graduate as an Honors Scholar. It wasn’t until I got into a university that my academic abilities and character as a pre-allied health major was tested. I made the ingenious decision to handle my ADHD without any pharmaceutical help, whatsoever. Exercise and dietary choices are my main method of treatment, along with sheer willpower and self-discipline. Not only was I able to lose about twenty-five pounds of fat, I got physically, and mentally stronger as well. I developed a better mindset, which lead to a stronger body. I started to learn a lot about myself, and how the brain actually works on its own. I learned that is it indeed possible to channel my “hyper-focusing” abilities when I need to, and it is especially easy to hyper-focus when I want to! As a Kinesiology major, my classes are science-heavy. I learned that when I’m in a class that I am passionate about, the ability to focus seems to get easier. I started reading a lot of books about ADHD living, and I started to make my life more ADHD friendly, which meant simplifying my life. Working with my ADHD, rather than against it, seems to work out better in my favor. I started studying in ways that would make my ADHD symptoms seem to go