Colman Noctor

Okay.

Yeah.

And didn't want to admit it and just thought it was wrong.

Yeah, it probably was.

I just hid my hyperactivity differently.

How?

Workaholic.

Oh, as a child, I probably, I mean, I was fidgety.

They were all the things that were coming through in their school reports.

He can't sit still.

We need to give him jobs and we need to give him that.

Yeah, and it used to be before the age of seven.

And why is that, Coleman?

I mean, ADHD was typically always seen as a disorder of childhood.

And in many ways, like you would never have adult treatment for ADHD.

So when I was in CAMHS in the 90s, and I think about it now, like I think about all the, there's a lot of women in their 40s and 50s who are getting diagnosed with ADHD now, right, or 30s, 40s, 50s.

And those would have been some of the girls coming through CAMHS in the 90s.

Now, we would never have even considered a girl for ADHD.

It just didn't fit with that sort of thing.

And these kids were coming in as daydreamy and they were kind of drifting in and out and they weren't living up to their potential and all that sort of stuff.