ADHD and girls: It’s not what you expect
Let’s distract ourselves for a moment with a quick thought experiment. Picture for yourself…the typical kid with ADHD. Got him? I write “him” because chances are you pictured a snot-nosed boy in a preschool or kindergarten classroom, wriggling and giggling and fidgeting and misbehaving, and generally working everyone’s last nerve. ADHD has been thought of as a disorder for males since the diagnosis was invented, but that stereotype is inaccurate. And it is changing, accordin