Girls with ADHD, underdiagnosed and misunderstood

I knew there were some gender differences between boys with ADHD and girls with it, but I didn’t realised they were so pronounced. This research that appeared in the American organisation CHAD’s newsletter – Attention – gives some idea of how different. Teaching teenage mothers to cook, I often pick up on some of the Learning Difficulties that some of them have, and at least one was ADHD. Teenage pregnancy in young undiagnosed female adhders is often one of the consequences as this article here explains.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s