Calling out the systems discrimination of girls and women with ADHD symptoms isn’t knocking others down. That’s like treating feminism as a personal attack on you because speaking up about women’s issues is an act of putting men down.
Think of how little leniency you get as a boy with ADHD. Now think about how girls and women don’t even get that, and are even more frequently punished for ‘acting out’ their ADHD symptoms due to a failure to conform to their gender roles.
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Calling out the systems discrimination of girls and women with ADHD symptoms isn’t knocking others down. That’s like treating feminism as a personal attack on you because speaking up about women’s issues is an act of putting men down.
Think of how little leniency you get as a boy with ADHD. Now think about how girls and women don’t even get that, and are even more frequently punished for ‘acting out’ their ADHD symptoms due to a failure to conform to their gender roles.
There are many widely cited studies proving the prevalence of underdiagnosis of girls with ADHD, partly because the guidelines are decades old and derived from studies that deliberately excluded girls.