The Hidden Face of ADHD #shorts

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Is there a difference between girls and boys at a young age with ADHD? I always remember it being like the boys because he was hyper and I never remember there conversation about girls. Is that normal? That is normal.

[00:00:13]>> Yeah, [laughter] what's normal? I don't know. Yeah, it's common. Okay. Let's say that.

[00:00:18]In the sense that even in developing the diagnosis or even like the people who created the criteria studied boys. I mean that's kind of what the data was based on hyperactive boys. So that's the picture that's kind of locked in our minds of the boy bouncing off the walls and disrupting class. And so that would really be more the hyperactive subtype or type of ADHD. But if someone is purely inattentive, they don't have the hyperactivity, the impulsivity, things like that, the blurting, interrupting.

[00:00:51]They can be quietly disorganized in their mind and cover for it because they just work harder Mhm.

[00:01:00]and they don't get the attention of the the disruptive child. So girls can potentially look less disruptive but still have the trouble with manipulating things in their working memory and keeping up with things, tasks drop, they can get overwhelmed with trying to keep up with things to do and then as we get older with families who they expect you to be the one taking care of things, then it becomes even more burdensome.

[00:01:26]They can mask symptoms in the sense that they still over perform, maybe go to bed really late cuz they're doing stuff while the family is still sleeping and they're still doing all this stuff and finishing things and no one knows but them that they're struggling.