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Focusing on Higher Ground
Reaching the Summit With ADHD
By Teri Brown
The world can be challenging place for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It seems that everything in life demands the one thing they have an incredibly hard time giving: focus.
Many children with ADHD get lost in the hustle and bustle of life and are never given the tools necessary to cope with their disorder. Danielle Fisher was almost one of those children. She wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until the sixth grade and struggled continually with school even though she was an intelligent girl.
Before being diagnosed with ADHD, Fisher recalls being easily distracted and having a hard time turning in assignments.
You would be hard pressed to find that easily distracted young girl in the daring and focused woman Fisher has become. Now a 20-year-old college student, Danielle Fisher recently became the youngest person in history to conquer "The Seven Summits" – the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
Fisher became passionate about mountain climbing at a young age. By the time she was 15 years old, she and her father had climbed Mount Adams, Mount Baker and Mount Rainer. In 2003, she and her father conquered the tallest peak in South America, Aconcagua.
In the two years following her South American climb, Fisher successfully scaled Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, Europe's Mount Elbrus, Australia's Mount Kosciusko, Antarctica's Mount Vinson, North America's Mount Mckinley and Asia's Mount Everest.