As I wrote about in my last essay, “A Crumpled Coke Can,” it took me a long time to recognize that my social awkwardness as a 10-year-old was due, in part, to my having ADHD.
It takes most women much longer to be recognized as having ADHD than it does boys and men. For the most part, that’s because the standard questionnaires for ADHD are entirely skewed to the false perception that only 8-year-old boys have ADHD.
If you’re interested in learning what the experience of having ADHD Is like for women, I highly recommend reading this piece by Maria Yagoda in The Atlantic. Reading this piece is how I started to think about the possibility of me having ADHD. It took me a couple of years to act on it, but this piece was the catalyst for my curiosity.
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