Nick Comoroto: Turning Nightmares To Dreams While Working With ADHD

ADHD is a battle.

There's self-doubt, reflection, wondering why you think differently, why things happen, and why they don’t.

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Personally, I had a tough time understanding why I excelled at some things, and found others impossible to focus on as I battled and lived with ADHD.

"Annoying," "weird," -- they feel like daggers to the heart of people who are classified as different, and as a child, who can understand? None of us are psychological experts at that age, and let's be real, almost none of us are well beyond that. It's not unreasonable to think that tact might not be the heaviest thing when children interact. For many living with ADHD, there are significant positives and negatives to the effects.

Nick Comoroto is a man of few words. He doesn't do media interviews -- he may have never done one before speaking with us. He's appeared in some behind-the-scenes videos, and weekly viewers of wrestling know who he is. The monstrous, caveman-esque former Nick Ogarelli, a former NXT talent who was signed by AEW and applied to the Factory's ranks.

Nick and I connected after sharing our experiences with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) on social media in December. A mentor of the soft-spoken Comoroto recommended we speak, so he could further expand on living with the disorder.

Comoroto received incredible support from his peers after opening up. I spoke to him in January 2023, shortly after that.

Remember the phrases we used earlier? In the comments alone, those with ADHD remembered being called a "time waster," “The Great Derailer." Nobody that knows Comoroto would dare say anything like that for many reasons. His overwhelming kindness might overshadow the intimidating physical aspects.

I realized through our conversation that I'd not really had an extended talk with someone else about their tendencies, deficiencies, and excellence in living with ADHD. Our specifics contrasted to such a degree that it highlighted how different everyone and ADHD itself can be. Many with ADHD look at Comoroto as an inspiration. Looking how he does physically, when some others can't focus on a workout long enough to do much of anything, is a point of pride.

Ahead of his tweet, he'd kept the discussions about ADHD to generally interpersonal situations. There is a stigma, after all. Comoroto believes that much like many others who live with ADHD, it's a gift and a curse.

“Publicly no, but I’ve always explained to people how it was. ‘Cause I’ve had to deal with multiple people in the past that didn’t think it was a real thing. One of my first coaches, first school I tried to join in had the Monster Factory name on it, but it wasn’t the Monster Factory. The coach goes like, ‘I didn’t think ADHD was a thing and then I met you.’ I don’t sit still. I’m out of focus. I’m always wandering around. I was diagnosed at six years old and my parents never wanted to medicate me. There’s been drug problems in my family and I can talk about a lot of that stuff later, but she never wanted me to get on a bunch of stuff. I was always considered, honestly, a bad student. I was a D student, except for math. I always had weird math skills, which kind of relays into me becoming a CPA and all that later in my life," he told us.

Our experiences differed significantly. He wasn't medicated until high school, I halted medication at the end of high school. Mine greatly affected my growth, and if you've seen Nick Comoroto, you see that nothing is affecting his growth. There is no uniform situation, path, or cure.

While some find focusing on educational tasks exceedingly difficult, or working out tough to focus on, those were two things that Comoroto lasered in on. Plus, his grades turned around when he started taking medication.

"That weird kid still resonates with me. A lot of people used to come up and go ‘Nick, you’re just weird.’ I don’t know how to talk to people. It bothers me," Comoroto candidly shared. "Weirdness up until high school was. I was the fat kid and then I lost weight up until freshman year. You look at me now, I’m 285 pounds, I’m huge. My being weird scares people. Throughout high school, I kept getting bigger and it just bothered me more and more. I eventually sat there with my parents and said, ‘Hey, can we just get me on medication?’ What do you know? My D’s started turning into A’s."

It should be reiterated -- medication isn't for everyone, and we're not medical experts here. Almost everyone that has experienced the aspect of medicating with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder realizes that it's not a catch-all. Unfortunately for many desperate parents and doctors, it has been treated as such. Because of the abuse of the prescription itself, it's become difficult for people who need medication to actually acquire it. Discussing that let Comoroto open up about some things he doesn't necessarily excel at.

Comoroto said, "So for every one or two kids that need it, they give it to about five or six that don’t. I talked to some people that are prescribed and they’re just normal people. Now there’s actually a shortage of it going all over the United States. It’s actually hard for me to get it. So I have to ration what I have. [Luckily, I don’t need to be on it as much because wrestling is something I’m very interested in.] Hell, while I was in the Performance Center in NXT, I was not prescribed it. I did have an old prescription bottle. I was afraid to go through with it because I didn’t know the process. They drug tested us every single month and I didn’t want to piss hot one random week and then have it be a problem. So I was off it. I was prescribed it when I was younger, but I wasn’t on it. The Ritalin kid, I kind of understand that because Katt Williams said he put his kid on it and it stops him mid-stride and falls down. It feels like that. So I’m prescribed Adderall. There was a little time where I was on Ritalin. It honestly feels pretty much the same. It makes me sit down. I can focus. You’d be surprised. A lot of my rooms in this house are a mess and my fiancé hates it ‘cause I completely forget I did something. I’ll lose everything around here. The weird kid is just, ‘I can’t focus, so I’ll just randomly wander into people’s conversations and listen in and be like, ‘What’s going on here?’ I used to get a lot of info that way. ‘Cause as I said, I was awkward. I wasn’t stupid and people would mistake it for being stupid. So I can easily get a lot of information that I’m not supposed to get, but they dismiss me. I was 17. It was my senior year in high school. Honestly, cutting weight wasn’t a problem anymore ‘cause my senior year I cut a lot of weight to make 215 and all of a sudden, it was a little bit into the season, I started doing it and then all of a sudden I dropped six pounds the night before a match. I had to drop eight pounds. It was pretty nice. School got a lot easier and then I found out without counting and then I ended up graduating summa cum laude. I had a [3.7]. See, with accounting I never needed to study. It’s night and day. You’d be surprised how much ADHD gets to little kids. They have all this energy, they’re all wound up. The post about it not existing, I don’t think it’s that they were trying to go off of that. I think certain things with the medication and all that, it’s over prescribed.”

Comoroto is also fantastic with numbers. Before wrestling, he was an accountant. He worked his way up at Joarder Associates, who owns over 40 Domino's restaurants. Comoroto would handle their books, determine the variances, and deal with some of the payroll aspects of the businesses, among other responsibilities. Being medicated helped him out a lot during that period. But WWE came calling, and his journey took a new direction.

"I got really accustomed to QuickBooks very fast with that because these stories had constant employees funneling in and out and then I was dealing with two different states which had different minimum wages and they had different laws with how taxes work on tips. I was enjoying that at first and then, again being on all the medication it made it easy, and then I got off it ‘cause WWE was gonna sign me," Comoroto said. "When I got off it, oh, my God. It was the most awful experience ever. I had to sit in a chair in an office. It’s not challenging either, so you’re just doing remedial tasks. It’s just like, ‘Oh, my God, get me the hell out of here.’ But you’re saying you do payroll. I used to have to do payroll for 42 different stores and all these bonuses. If wrestling ever doesn’t work out, I’m very good at QuickBooks," he laughed.

One of the most common shortfalls that you'll hear from those with ADHD is how quickly they get bored in the gym or as a part of their routine. For some, these obstacles can lead to a lack of results. That's not to say that Nick doesn't experience some of that same inattentiveness, but it's had an opposite effect on him. He ends up staying at the Exile Fitness gym in Maryland for four hours at a time instead of one. There, Comoroto works with amateur wrestling mats, standard weights, and even a jeep on a platform that he can thrust into the air.

It probably shouldn't be a surprise that both Billy Gunn and Brian Cage have been to this gym, as well.

"They have all this stuff. I was working with Q.T. (Marshall) the other day. He laughs at me because I’m like in my head, daydreaming. I wander around in circles. So many people at my gym probably think I’m a psychopath ‘cause I just walk around in circles. Me having ADD at the gym, it’s the most horrible thing there. The coolest thing is there’s a whole bunch of fitness influencers everywhere, so everybody’s allowed to have their tripod and cameras out. So I’m just thinking, ‘Oh, what’s something ridiculous I can do and record and put on Instagram?’ One of the last things I had have any traction was me frickin’ dry humping the jeep up in the air. They have a jeep up on a platform, so I put a bar there and start pubic thrusting it in the air. What do you know? It got like 40,000 views. I spend a little bit too much time there a lot of times. Everyone’s asking why I’m always limping. It’s ‘cause I’m sore. I always overdo it there. I waste too much time in there when I should just be getting out. I feel like it dis-affects me there. A lot of times when I go to the gym, I’m off my medication or I’ll take it later on in the day or it wore off by that time ‘cause I take it pre-workouts before I go out there. I don’t want to mix the two. I don’t like being on too many stimulants," Comoroto admitted.

Medication varies for each person with ADHD, as do the symptoms. Comoroto told me that, during his time in WWE, sometimes he wouldn't take his medication because he felt like he didn't need it. The environment was conducive to his attention and learning.

"I was doing a lot of things in the PC, they were working the crap out of us," Nick said. "I was training with Norman Smiley every day. I loved working with him ‘cause a lot of coaches do blow up drills just to do blow up drills and you don’t know if you’re learning anything. He gets you blown up and then he makes you learn how to talk to somebody. He puts you in situations where you gotta learn to communicate a spot to somebody. But you’re blown up and it tends to stick a lot more. He puts you in those situations ‘cause you’re gonna be in those kinds of situations in matches."

Comoroto explained that Smiley likes to make sure that the talent he works with won't be lost in a match if they get exhausted or have a miscommunication. A lot more planning goes into the in-ring work than it did in Smiley's day, and he recognizes that change, as does Nick. Still, there were some struggles here and there with focusing on the task at hand.

"He’s very good at that. He’s been a coach longer than I’ve probably been alive. That’s why he’s held in such high regard. Then working out with [Sean Hayes]. I wandered around doing his things a lot, too. But with my energy being used it was easier to focus. I still got called out a couple times where coaches are going, ‘Were you just paying attention to what I said?’ I would have to train myself to hear everything even though I’m wandering off. ‘Oh, what was I just talking about?’ Then I would repeat everything they said. My eyes are wandering off," He said.

When discussing some aspects that he’s working on, Comoroto noted that sometimes he has issues focusing his eyes on one target during a promo. He's often considered wearing sunglasses to hide that, but he's been coached to show his emotions, and the sunnies cut down on that. He said in the past he got critiqued about his thick Philly accent, which wasn't as noticeable when we spoke. Instead of letting the critique get to him, he's hoping one day to accentuate what makes him unique and utilize the distinct accent to set him apart.

Some adjustments can be learned, others just can't be picked up.

"It has to be visual," Comoroto said of his process. "If I see how it works, I learn it right away. Getting to act it out, people always complained about getting homework, but doing the actual act of something is how it clicks with you. You were talking about the pacing around. At my old house—I hope they fixed it—but there’s this area I used to pace all day. There’s a big line of grass that just doesn’t grow in my backyard ‘cause I’m literally out there daydreaming with a wiffle ball bat hitting things and trying to put stuff together in my head. It was 20-something years of that."

Comoroto went from playing baseball as a kid to becoming a collegiate All-American wrestler that caught the eye of Jerry Brisco, eventually leading him to the Monster Factory. Despite the amateur beginnings, pro wrestling was always Comoroto's inspiration. From age 12, he knew what he wanted to do. Guidance counselors told the then-portly and unathletic Comoroto he needed realistic goals. Undeterred, he surveyed the landscape and saw Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle atop WWE. With that in mind, he viewed their amateur wrestling skill set as one that he needed to gain.

"I got into camps," Comoroto said. "In eighth grade I was 235 pounds and then I lost about 60 pounds going into my freshman year. So I lost about 40, played football, then I had to cut weight to make the varsity team. Got beat up a little bit there, but I kept doing camps. I kept getting better. Then what do you know? I’m top-ranked in the state at the end of my senior year. They were also listening to certain things. ‘Okay, these guys can lift this,’ so I set a bunch of strength records. I locked myself in a gym, ‘cause I was insecure about being obese growing up. I went to college, it was Gloucester County college, it was the South Jersey all-star team. There’s not many scholarships that go out for wrestling. I was on a team with six different heavyweights. I was 260, I was a freshman. There was no making 197 there. I kept getting beat up every day, kept getting better. Tear my ACL freshman year, come back sophomore year. Sophomore year I ended up being one of the top ranked in the nation."

Unfortunately, tragedy struck. His brother died right before Christmas, and this loss had a profound impact on him. He lost one of his closest friends, and he had to miss the funeral to go compete in Nationals. There, he had an experience that changed his life. Comoroto was watching a lot of top athletes get injured, be prescribed painkillers, then become addicted, which unfortunately led to other substances being abused. Comoroto was crushed, but he saw it as a cautionary tale. He didn't want to be dependent on any substance.

The weight was a lot to carry, and he ended up underperforming at Nationals. However, he ended up taking these nightmare situations and used it to fuel a dream

"I was one of the top seeds and I ended up choking. I was not in a good place," Comoroto remembered. "Things can go bad and it can be all over tomorrow. I knew I got into all of this because of professional wrestling. That was my last day of amateur wrestling and then I looked up the Monster Factory because Gloucester County had one other all-American that became a pro wrestler. It was Larry Sharpe, who created the Monster Factory. So I decided to look around there. They were local. There was a place in Belmar called the OTW Monster Factory. I called them up, I saved up some money and then I started training there. All good and then suddenly they weren’t affiliated with the Monster Factory. This was about 2011 and then a couple years later—they had matches every week, I was trying to get better and then eventually I just left them and joined the actual Monster Factory. It goes on a journey from there. That was just a bad thing. I sort of understand from my parent’s point of view of not putting me on medication ‘cause my oldest brother, he had huge problems. He was on his way to being a top college athlete, but he gets injured in high school and then fell into a bad crowd."

After he had a traumatic life event, Comoroto realized that he didn't want to go down the same road after seeing what happened to his brother. The potential of addiction to any substance is something he's cognizant of.

"I’m always aware of it," Comoroto said. "When I tore my ACL, they put me on painkillers and eventually I put everything in the bottle and gave it to my parents and went, ‘Okay, only give me one when I need it.’ I feel like my being aware of the addictiveness. There’s times when they wanted to up my dosage and I said, ‘No. I don’t want to be on too much.’ Then there’s times where if I’m doing nothing during the day or nothing that day, I’ll make sure not to take it. It does have addictive properties. I’ve experienced it. I’m fully aware of it."

Despite being a standout amateur wrestler, professional wrestling was always Nick's love. It would shine through, even though he was exceeding his own expectations on the wrestling mats.

"So in high school, I had a couple of people making fun of me about it. It wasn’t a big deal. Our coach had a title belt replica. But in college, everybody loved it. We had one of those WWE Anthology CDs that would play. Everybody loved it. It’s funny ‘cause in high school everyone wants to pretend not to like the same things and then in college nobody cares and everyone was just loving it. Everybody just supports me now," said Comoroto.

Comoroto was a high-upside prospect in WWE. At a time when many talent with television experience were parked at the Performance Center, Comoroto was working the Florida live event loops for NXT. Along the way, he regularly performed with Bronson Reed, Veer, 2Point0, Chris Hero, Damian Priest, Ridge Holland, Rick Boogs, and he also teamed with Von Wagner. However, he was a victim of the pandemic cuts, so he was out of work. Still, he refused to give up; instead, he became hyper-focused on making his dream a reality.

However, some of his ADHD symptoms affected him while he was stuck at home.

"I’m really lucky," Comoroto said. "We had this house in Maryland. My fiancé wasn’t able to sell it. She was just my girlfriend at the time, but we were living together. She works IT. She’s also a referee. She makes decent money. She goes, ‘Nick, do not go get a regular job. You’re good at this. Keep chasing this.’ Also the pandemic is what led me to getting back on the medication, me being cooped up with a lot of energy that couldn’t be expended. It came back full force, all my little symptoms and problems."

Fortunately, an old friend in QT Marshall called and helped get Comoroto a chance.

"I owe my career to Q.T. As soon as I became a free agent, I’m pretty sure him and Luis had a talk about, ‘Yeah, Nick’s learned a lot and they just let him go.’ I get a text from Q.T. going, ‘Okay, so when’s your non-compete clause up?’ Then I found the date and he was just upset ‘cause it was after—you know when they had all the tapings at the Nightmare Factory? It was like two days right after that. He was like, ‘Crap. That would have been a perfect setting to bring you in.’ I met him and he straight up told me to my face about—‘cause I was this giant hairy man—all attention’s going to be on me. He goes, ‘[Well, we know ways] how to book around you and get you in there.’ Q.T. was actually one of the main coaches at the Monster Factory. I learned a lot from them. Q.T.’s always been very good to me. I’ve seen a lot. The word carny goes around, and Q.T. and Luis have always been directly honest with me and that’s always very relieving. I go check in with other schools. They’ll say this, this, this. You’re full of crap and you can tell they’re full of crap. I feel like a lot of people like Q.T. backstage just ‘cause of how directly honest he is with everything. He’s very easy to deal with," said Comoroto. "He always kept me honest. I kept in contact with him and then one day Tony asked Q.T., ‘Hey, I need someone to beat up Darby in a Dark match.’ Q.T. goes, ‘Oh, I got a guy.’ He contacts me. I go and have my match with Darby. It was filmed at the end of September two or three years ago and then aired in October."

Tony Khan was a fan, and he committed to bringing back Comoroto. Nick said that QT Marshall and Tony Khan had a 4 AM conversation that led to a 5 AM phone call. He didn't see it until later in the morning, which was instructing him to catch the next flight possible to Jacksonville to work with Jungle Boy. The line of thinking was that, after licensing Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy," Jungle Boy would compete against a much bigger wrestler to accentuate his skill set.

Many indie wrestlers credited All Elite Wrestling for giving them paychecks and opportunities during the pandemic when many shows were shut down. For Comoroto, he made sure to drop everything when those chances presented themselves.

"I came in for like two other things here or there and then a random conversation Q.T. was having with Tony at 4:00 am. He got the license to Jungle Boy’s music. He goes, ‘I kind of want him to wrestle a bigger guy. What’s Comoroto doing?’ Q.T. goes, ‘Comoroto’s back home in Maryland.’ He goes, ‘Ah, crap. I’ll just get someone else,’ and then Q.T. calls me up at 4:30/5:00 am. I didn’t get it. He texts me. I didn’t get it. I’m asleep. Luckily I have dogs that have to get up at 6:00 am to go to the bathroom. I get up; I look at my phone and go, ‘What the frick?’ He goes, ‘Trust me, it’ll be worth it.’ I had to go get a plane ticket to Jacksonville. There’s no direct flights. They’re all connecting flights. So I tell him right there I’m getting on my flight. It’s a connecting flight. I land there around 4:30 pm. I get an Uber straight to the arena. It’s like five something. I have all this stuff, they do the COVID check with me. I have the finger poke, if you have anything. I get all cleared. I don’t have it. I go in. It’s now almost 6:00. [They’re] like, ‘You’re going to have a match with Jungle Boy.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever. It’s going to be after the show.’ No, it’s before the show. So I have to go out there at 7:30 and it’s already almost 7:00. So I’m like, ‘What about this? What about this?’ It’s put together very fast. I go out there with Jungle Boy and it’s a good little five minute match. I get him over and get the crowd all hot. I come backstage and Q.T. laughs. He goes, ‘He just approved this thing I was pitching.’" Comoroto remembered.

“So I put everything into trying to get into AEW. I had a few depression points. I didn’t know where to go, but luckily it worked out. I went and trained at the Nightmare Factory a couple of times. Really good place they got there. The whole Factory pitch was Q.T.’s doing and I’m one of Q.T.’s original students. He came to the Factory to learn how to coach. I love the way he wrestles, too. He’s one of those guys who has no problem being hated. It’s funny how if you go to arenas, you’ll see entire arenas booing him out of the building. There was a lot of low points of, ‘Oh, crap. Was that the peak? Am I gonna get [hired] anywhere?’ I put all the stock into getting into AEW," said Comoroto.

It worked. Comoroto got hired full-time.

"A lot of times in AEW, I get put in anxiety situations. With the Factory, we were usually the main events of Elevation and we have to wrap everything up and to get ready for Dynamite afterwards. Time gets cut, Q.T.’s working three different jobs so he can’t call the match until right beforehand. It’s like, ‘Oh, crap. This is very easily a disaster waiting to happen,’ and the fact that disasters usually don’t happen with us and our matches are always good, makes me think I’m getting a lot better. I feel like my anxiety goes through the roof and it kills my confidence, more when things like that happen and having good matches when things could be a disaster, gets my confidence up and my anxiety goes down a little bit. Going out there in front of big crowds, I’m an anxious person," Comoroto said. "People are finally starting to realize how good he actually is. He’s one of those guys, he’s doing three or four other jobs and a lot of our matches are Elevation matches. He goes out there on 20 minutes notice and he still has a great match. He can get so much out of so little. People are finally starting to realize he’s good. Q.T., I very believe, is going to be one of those guys 20 / 30 years from now everybody’s going to be talking on the documentaries about how actually good he was."

Children with ADHD often get typecast. There is no cure, no uniform way that they could, should behave or react to certain things. There are, however, experiences from those who have been through it that can help. Comoroto has had the peaks, valleys, wins and losses, and has some useful advice.

"Your kid ain’t broken. That’s all I want to say. You need to find something they’re very interested in," Comoroto said." You gotta find ways to expend their energy. I feel like a lot of it gets exacerbated when kids are cooped up and kept at desks and all that. You find a sport he kind likes; he goes and plays that sport. He gets to expend his energy every night and it will be easier to get him to sit down and do his homework later. That was always my case. A lot of people blame preservatives in food and all that, and honestly cleaning out my diet helped it as well. When you eat like crap, you feel like crap."

When Comoroto first opened up publicly about ADHD, he received dozens of messages of support. Not just for himself, but from families who have learned or are learning how to work with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. He's been asked for recommendations and help from others struggling to adapt .

"I was always told ADHD is sort of a survival instinct; it’s something we evolved from. If anything goes out of my routine, my anxiety is through the roof. If I don’t do this right then this ain’t gonna be right, this ain’t gonna be right. I have anxiety out the ass when I go out there and perform. Again, going back to wrestling Q.T., he makes everything real easy. A lot of times when I’m tagging with him, he’s someone who tells me, ‘Just do this.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, okay.’ It’s very easy. I know it’s weird to rely on somebody as a safety blanket, but he is a good safety blanket out there. I have so much anxiety going into matches, but once that bell rings I feel a lot different. It’s like a switch. These kinds of people can put focus into things they’re very into. You’ll see great things out of them. You just need to find something they’re very into. Just watch the magic happen," Comoroto said.

The post was a rare look inside Nick Comoroto. This conversation is one of his first interviews he's ever done, but there was a purpose. He wants people who are going through the things he has experienced to know that there are ways to channel it and succeed.

"It kind of took a lot out of me to post it. I never want to claim victim for anything, as weird as that sounds. It’s weird saying that. I don’t want to go up to everybody and go, ‘Oh, I’m disadvantaged.’ I’m 6’2, 285. Not putting over my size, but I’m a big guy who’s done a lot of athletic things. I’m not disadvantaged. But going through that is a problem and it does exist. Don’t pretend that these things don’t exist. I hope it inspires other people. I don’t know. I grew up wanting to be a wrestler and it was something I was diagnosed with as a kid. If you want to do something and don’t let little things hinder you. I know there’s a lot of things it hindered me with, but this was just something I really wanted to do and I put all my focus into it. You can’t let little things hold you back. You just gotta go for it. Don’t give up on your kid if he has a little learning disability or anything like that, like ADHD. He’s just a kid. You gotta find something he’s into and he’s gonna be fine. This story isn't about me, but for any parents with children living with ADHD, or anyone with it in general -- embrace it. It's not going anywhere, and you can treat it, but you'll always live with it. Fortunately, my career greatly benefited from the multi-tasking. Throughout my conversation with Nick, it became evident that we're on opposite ends of the coin on so many things. I was medicated until 17 and stopped. He started medication at 17 and it helped him. I have trouble focusing in the gym, while he hyperfocuses in the weight room. I can multitask, and he says he's not able to. However, where we both agree -- support yourself, your loved ones who have ADHD. Allow their passions to become something special," Comoroto closed.

I myself have battled ADHD throughout my life. After being typecast for it, I did my best to ignore it for a long time, which came at the expense of sustained success. This interview was an eye opening experience. There are so many things -- math, focusing in the gym, among others -- that I struggle with and Comoroto excels in. There were several topics during the course of our talk that we found that I took to well, and Nick didn't, and vice versa. Personally, I'm far from an expert, but Comoroto highlighted it well. If you have ADHD or your child does, embrace the things that you love and can focus on. Apply as many resources as you can in the deficient areas, but don't hesitate to leap into what you love. For me, that was sports and wrestling. For Nick, that was wrestling and weights. There's no "light at the end of the tunnel," because there is no end of the tunnel with ADHD. There's no cure or catch-all. But there are things to help you illuminate the experience.

The Mayo Clinic has some great resources that can help with your ADHD diagnosis, as well as some home help options.

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