In addition to her mental health, Olympic gold medalist and highest-awarded American gymnast Simone Biles speaks openly about her ADHD and her prescription for Ritalin and says that receiving treatment in competition shouldn't be seen as unfair game. "Having ADHD, and taking medicine for it is nothing to be ashamed of [and] nothing that I'm afraid to let people know," Simone tweeted in 2016.
Simone aims to maintain an open dialogue to encourage others to view ADHD as a unique rather than defective condition hindering one's potential. "It's never held me back and I never let it hold me back," Biles said in an interview with Understood, a nonprofit organisation that provides online resources for ADHD. "I think it all depends on how you approach the learning disability . . . If you make it seem like a problem, then they think they have a problem."