Girls used to be diagnosed 25x less often than girls, now it’s only 3x less often. ADHD occurs at the same rates between genders. Girls are just more heavily conditioned and disciplined into gender conforming behavior, which involves sitting still, being quiet, paying attention, and ‘behaving well’. Girls with ADHD symptoms are treated as troublesome kids, without the leniency towards boys with ADHD.
This doesn’t cure girls of ADHD, it just makes them internalize their suffering at the cost of their mental health. Speaking as a woman who wasn’t diagnosed and medicated until my late 20s.
Uhh as a Boy who had ADHD. What leniency are you talking about? I am, always was, and will continue to be judged as an absolute failure by all those around me.
children (Not Boys, Not Girls) with ADHD receive a full 20,000 more negative messages by age 10, on average.
We also don’t give Adderall to people with ADHD.
Girls used to be diagnosed 25x less often than girls, now it’s only 3x less often. ADHD occurs at the same rates between genders. Girls are just more heavily conditioned and disciplined into gender conforming behavior, which involves sitting still, being quiet, paying attention, and ‘behaving well’. Girls with ADHD symptoms are treated as troublesome kids, without the leniency towards boys with ADHD.
This doesn’t cure girls of ADHD, it just makes them internalize their suffering at the cost of their mental health. Speaking as a woman who wasn’t diagnosed and medicated until my late 20s.
Uhh as a Boy who had ADHD. What leniency are you talking about? I am, always was, and will continue to be judged as an absolute failure by all those around me.
I am not sure why you feel the need to knock others down. We are all supposed to be in this together.