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Quitting

I've got a month left of the sport I've done for most of my life. I started gymnastics when I was maybe 3, I'm 17 now. I did quit when I was 7-10 to do cheer instead but I'm not switching this time. I'm actually quitting. I've not enjoyed it like I used to for years, I don't speak to anyone there, I don't fit in, I don't really feel comfortable there, but it's a constant in my life and a place I can go to use that built up energy and it's a distraction that's been there for some of the worst times of my life. But my body can't take it anymore, it's not something I want to admit but I have to or I'm just going to cause more damage. I do an hour a week, it takes me the full week to recover, there's often weeks I can't even make it, and when I do, I'm working for not even half the session because I'm dizzy or unable to breathe or my shoulder's messed up. I hate that I was born with a body that's unable to do this stuff before I'm even an adult. 

I told my coach tonight and nearly started crying XD I genuinely know my coaches more than half of my own family, they've been in my life for nearly a decade and a half. It's shitty but I know it's got to happen at some point and that time seems now with my health continuing to deteriorate and approaching my final year in school.

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Something similar happened to me when I was younger. I started having asthma attacks even though I never had asthma before in my life. I also started to realized that people in my teams were forming small groups and I didn’t fit in any of them. I wasn’t having fun anymore. I finished the season and never went back.