‘Women and ADHD’ Archives

Girls Underdiagnosed with ADHD

A recent article in WebMD The Magazine pointed out a little known fact: girls are often not diagnosed with ADD ADHD until they reach their late teens and often not until they've reached adulthood. If you've done any research at all on the subject and looked for any celebrities who have tackled their symptoms and become successful, you can't help but wonder why men outnumber women by a factor of greater than 3 to 1. Why is that? Typical symptoms most recognized and associated with ADHD are hyperactivity and impulsiveness. A third symptom is inattentiveness, a trait that that does not take [...]