Anna Brandberg

One of the reasons there's a stereotype of #ADHD being a “boys” thing is bc generally girls/women’s symptoms tend to manifest inwardly & often don’t “affect” others. As a result, faaar fewer girls get diagnosed as children, thus needlessly suffering in silence their whole lives.

And it doesn’t end there. Even if they DO get diagnosed, they still don’t get the same treatment. A Dutch medical study found: - 47% of boys got medication for their #ADHD. - But only 6% of girls. - 38% of boys got education, info & support for ADHD. - But only 8% of girls.

It sucks! And I know you can get diagnosed later in life (I was), but that doesn’t make up for the years that could have been spent developing study habits and other strategies to help w/ symptoms. Where could all these late-diagnosed women be if they’d had more of a head start?