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ADHD in Girls and Women: Why It Gets Missed and What to Do About It

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About Course

For decades, ADHD research focused almost entirely on boys, leaving generations of girls undiagnosed, misunderstood, and carrying an invisible weight. This course unpacks how ADHD actually presents in girls and women – from inattentive daydreaming to hormonal shifts to the mental health cost of masking – and gives parents, educators, and late-diagnosed women the knowledge and tools to finally make sense of what they have been seeing. Practical, evidence-based, and built around real lived experience, this course moves from understanding to action.

What Will You Learn?

  • Recognise the inattentive and camouflaged presentations of ADHD that are most common in girls and that standard ADHD checklists consistently miss
  • Identify specific masking behaviours girls use to hide ADHD symptoms at school and at home, and explain why sustained masking significantly increases risk of anxiety, depression, and burnout
  • Describe how oestrogen and dopamine interact across the menstrual cycle, puberty, and perimenopause, and use this understanding to explain fluctuating ADHD symptoms
  • Spot the co-occurring conditions most frequently seen alongside ADHD in girls - including anxiety, RSD, depression, and disordered eating - and understand how they interact
  • Guide a girl or woman through the process of seeking an ADHD assessment, receiving a diagnosis, and reconstructing her self-understanding in light of her history
  • Apply school and home strategies specifically tailored to the female ADHD presentation rather than defaulting to approaches designed for hyperactive boys
  • Advocate confidently for appropriate assessment, reasonable adjustments, and informed support when a girl's ADHD has been dismissed or attributed to something else
  • Support a late-diagnosed woman or teenager to process the grief, relief, and identity shifts that commonly follow a long-awaited diagnosis

Course Content

Why the ADHD Story Was Never Written for Girls

  • Built on Boys: How Diagnostic Criteria Left Girls Behind
  • Inattentive, Internal, Invisible: What ADHD Actually Looks Like in Girls
  • The Misdiagnosis Trail: Anxiety, Depression, and ‘Just Being Sensitive’
  • How To: Spot the Signs of Inattentive ADHD in a Girl Who Seems Fine on the Surface

Masking, Camouflage, and the Cost of Keeping It Together

Hormones, the Body, and ADHD Across the Lifespan

Co-Occurring Conditions: What Else Is Usually in the Picture

Diagnosis, Advocacy, and Life After the Penny Drops

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