Before being suspended for 18 months for having missed three doping controls in a row (suspension ultimately reduced to 12 months) and suffering a shoulder injury, Jenson Brooksby, 33e world in June 2022, was one of the most promising players on the circuit.
Recently, while he will make his comeback on the courts in Australia after two years of absence, the American revealed that he has had a form of autism since he was very young. A confession reported by AP News.
“It’s just something I don’t want to keep to myself anymore. It’s obviously a personal subject, and even with people you feel very comfortable with – in my mind, at least for a long time – it wasn’t something you could just express in the context of ‘a conversation But I always thought about it and… I ended up wanting to talk about it’declared the one who did not say a word until he was 4 years old before spending around 40 hours a week with therapists for “being able to just start talking and then get better at communication and social situations. »
“I just want people to know me for who I really am, and that’s just another part of me. I spent a lot of time not playing and was able to think about a lot of things. » And that is to his credit.
Published on Thursday December 19, 2024 at 6:18 p.m.
