“There aren’t any confusing feminine symptoms that keep girls from being referred to get diagnosed, but rather the misconception that girls cannot have ADHD at all.” via WMC's the_fbomb
To be fair, so many things can cause a child to struggle — trouble at home, trouble with friends, or any number of other psychological conditions. When ADHD is culturally thought to be a “boy disorder,” it’s not unreasonable that teachers and parents may not immediately identify it in girls.
But at the end of the day, parents and teachers are the ones who can stop the cycle of underdiagnosis: Girls can’t get a diagnosis if no one takes them to get evaluated, and when fewer girls get diagnoses, the idea that ADHD is a male disorder is perpetuated.Parents and teachers must educate themselves about ADHD, unravel their preconceptions about the disorder, and pay attention to the girls in their lives.
The diagnostic gender gap for ADHD holds wider implications for the rest of the medical world. ADHD isn’t the only condition that researchers have relied solely on male cases to learn more about. For example,are routinely missed in women because male bodies are studied as the default. Throughout most, if not all, medical fields, female bodies are viewed as irrelevant, and their differences from male bodies are ignored.
There are very real consequences for girls with ADHD who remain undiagnosed; they are at higher risk of
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