... but Who is Maiara?

To answer this question, a good starting point would be who she is today: “I’m a 23 year old girl who study Languanges and Literature at UFRGS. I have to deal with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and, probably like everyone else, have given up on my first dream.” She currently studies to be a translator, learned how to cope with ADHD, and gave up the dream of being a professional swimmer, due to the lack of discipline, “and I don’t regret“, she puts it.

Actually, Maiara never had time to regret anything. Her busy life started in March 10th, 1988. Three months later she was adopted. She found a physical and emotional home with her adopted mother, Mara, and her new sister, Marília. At school age, things got complicated again: “I was hyperactive due to an undiagnosed ADHA. And, once I found out what was wrong, another crisis set in, because I feared that, if I treated it, nothing good would be left.” She successfully controlled the condition. All this before college.

First it was Ritter dos Reis, a place Maiara never felt comfortable “because the other students were different from me. They didn’t care about education, or learning, just for social politics. I didn’t like the campus either, so I felt like a fish out of water.” But six months later, on her second attempt, Maiara passed the UFRGS’s exams. “It was a relief. Everything is the complete opposite to what I had experienced in Ritter. I specially love all the green surrounding the campus.”

The future is already planned, and it’s a simple one: working with translation, finding a partner to share life with (kids not included), a home of her own, traveling... Just a stable life. “There was a time when I felt pessimistic, but I suddenly realized that I had overcome a lot of challenges. So far, I’ve been able to achieve every goal I’d put to myself. There’s still a long way to go and a lot to improve, but I’ve learned the most important lesson: We can learn everything.”

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