Famous Women With ADHD
11 Bad*ss Women Who Are Thriving With ADHD
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Olympic gold medalist Cammi Granato scored more goals in her career than any other US female hockey player while also achieving the great honour of appearing on the cover of a Wheaties cereal box. Though due to the seemingly unavoidable chaos in her personal life, she also believed she was lazy.
Upon receiving her official diagnosis in 2003, she said retrospectively that her ADHD had played a significant role in her success with the sport. "The sport doesn't require a lot of thinking," Cammi said in an interview with Psychology Today. "You just react. You're in the moment. I was a natural at that."
In 2005, Cammi said to the St. Louis Dispatch: "It's affected me in positive and negative ways . . . It's really my worst and best qualities wrapped in one."