Skateboarding has been on my mind for decades. Though I started skateboarding when I was 9 years old (and loved it then), I stopped after a couple of years because none of my friends could skate.
For many, many years, I didn’t know how to get back into it, and I regretted all that lost time. I didn’t know I had ADHD until I was in my late 20s (I’m in my 40s now), but, in retrospect, I see how my ADHD brain was stuck on figuring out where to begin and how to just “do the thing.”I found my way back to skateboarding in 2020.
In the middle of the pandemic, my husband decided he wanted to learn to skateboard. Then our daughter got into it. Then our son.
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