Colman Noctor

It definitely has, because it was under seven, you had to be hyperactive, you had to be this, you had to be that.

I just don't think that cost...

I think that caused a squeaky wheel of ADHD presentation, but not others.

And the boundaries of diagnosis have stretched in everything.

From the point of view, that's not just ADHD.

Autism.

Yeah, even things like anxiety, depression, all those things.

Over time...

the diagnosis reference gets bigger, it never gets smaller, from that perspective.

But if you're thinking about an explosion of ADHD diagnosis, there's going to be a number of things to it.

One is more awareness, that for sure would do it.

Two, there's more assessments.

If you do more assessments, you find more people.

And three, there is probably people... And this is the big issue why I never wanted to write the column...

was because you run the risk of becoming like a bandwagon jumper.

Do you know what I mean?

But even since I wrote the column, people come up to me and go, you don't have that.

You don't have that.

You know what I mean?

And people who know me very well and I would like and respect as well.