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🗓️ 11 March 2025
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Five experts — Lotta Borg Skoglund, M.D., Ph.D.; Ellen Littman, Ph.D.; Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, Ph.D.; Diane Miller, Psy.D., M.Ed.; and Maggie Sibley, Ph.D. — discuss ADHD in women, including different symptom presentation, stigma, barriers to treatment, the impact of hormones, and much more.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
0:13.9 | Hi, everyone. |
0:15.3 | My name is Annie Rogers. |
0:17.3 | And on behalf of the Attitude team, I am so pleased to welcome you to today's special |
0:22.9 | ADHD experts panel discussion titled Living with ADHD, it's Different for Women. Today's free |
0:31.4 | roundtable is made possible with support from play attention. ADHD presents unique challenges |
0:37.3 | for women, often overlooked and misunderstood. |
0:40.3 | Play attention is inspired by NASA technology and backed by Tufts University research, |
0:46.3 | designed to strengthen executive function, helping you navigate focus, organization, and emotional regulation with confidence. Plus, every play attention |
0:55.6 | program includes a personal focus coach to customize your plan and guide you along the way. |
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1:06.6 | for adults to learn more. |
1:14.6 | Thanks, Attitude, thanks our sponsors for supporting our webinars. |
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1:25.0 | Now, we know that historically, ADHD was considered a predominantly, |
1:31.6 | predominantly, if not exclusively, male disorder. For generations, girls went without proper |
1:38.7 | diagnosis and treatment because clinicians were looking for boy presentations of ADHD. |
1:45.8 | Even parents and teachers didn't and sometimes don't understand how ADHD affected the lived experiences of girls differently. |
1:56.1 | Why? |
1:57.4 | Because scientific research has long neglected ADHD's profound impact on females. |
2:04.3 | We now know that untreated ADHD can have serious and even life-altering consequences for women and girls. |
2:13.7 | We know this because women with ADHD have been telling us this for years, telling us about the heavy burden of living in a world that's not designed for them, about how untreated ADHD causes turmoil in their closest relationships, and how it affects their performance in school and at work, |
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