Struggling With Asthma, Noah Lyles’ Mother Revealed She Kept Another Diagnosis From Him as a Kid: ‘I Didn’t Tell Him’

What you have, does not define what you become,’ Noah Lyles has fought an uphill battle against diseases ever since he was a kid. Although he has six health conditions, he navigates life seamlessly, however, this was not always the case. As he kid, he struggled relentlessly with asthma and the severity of his suffering made it difficult for his mother Keisha Cane Bishop to break out another diagnosis to him

Appearing on the Got it From My Momma Podcast, Keisha Caine Bishop spoke that the thought of him becoming an Olympic Champion barely crossed her mind, because she “Just wanted him to be the best Noah we could make him out to be.” Even if this came at the cost of concealing his diagnosis till the right moment. Keisha Cane recalls, “When he first got diagnosed with ADD and I, He didn;t even know it ’cause I didn’t tell him.”

It was only at an opportune moment later that Noah Lyles’ brother Josephus Lyles told him one day. “He was like dude, you have ADD.” At the time Noah was so innocent that he reaction was, “I have ADD, what is ADD?” And that is when Noah Lyles’ mother Keisha Cane Bishop stepped in with an explanation. She expounded that ADD was like this ‘superpower’ that he possessed as he was an out-of-the-box think, very creative person, and was usually pretty good with young kids.

She then broke the important information bit saying, “But every superpower has a weakness.” So, for little Noah Lyles to comprehend, she said that his weakness is that it’ll be hard for him to sit still at times. Also traditional schooling could be a challenge as focusing when focusing on things gets tough. However, as a caring mother, she assured to provide him with all the tools and resources needed to manage his weakness.