bys drugged and called adhd when they are simply being boys

And what happens is with a girl with ADHD, what we find is that she will develop almost obsessive compulsive personality traits. They don’t want anyone to know, so they stay in the closet longer really. Quinn: Absolutely, and the girls tend to work very hard to cover up their ADHD symptoms. Jeff Copper: Which is interesting because the way you’ve described it makes a little bit of sense why boys have been diagnosed a little bit more than girls just because of the way it manifests, is that making sense?ĭr. That changes in adolescence a little bit, but we see a great increase in girls with the anxiety and depression. We see more of the impulsivity in the boys. It’s more outward externalized behaviors so that we see more of the hyper activity. Quinn: And for boys we see that it’s more their behaviors affecting others. We also might see that the girl internalizes her symptoms so that as a result she might have more anxiety or self-esteem issues or be more depressed because she’s seeing these symptoms, they’ve gotten her in trouble, she hasn’t been able to bring in a project that she needed because she forgot, so she really analyzes them.ĭr. For example, a girl might be hyper talkative rather than hyperactive or she might be hyperreactive. Quinn: Well, the symptoms are the same, obviously, it has to be attention deficit disorder, so they have problems with attention, concentration, and focus, but what we see is that those symptoms might look different in a girl or a boy. Does ADHD manifest different between boys and girls?ĭr. Jeff Copper: I’ve got a burning question. I’m your host, Attention Coach Jeff Copper, and I’m here today with Dr. Jeff Copper: Welcome everybody to this edition of Attention Talk Video.

Bys drugged and called adhd when they are simply being boys