Dr Helen Wall
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
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And that's the time when you're meeting your peers and trying to find your place in society and who you are and what you are.
And you've got all the hormones then changing as well in puberty.
So, yeah, it's really tricky, I think, for girls and women to be seen in this area.
Yeah, I think it is.
And I'm not sure whether it's a drive for perfection.
Like, I don't think it's a conscious thing.
This is my own opinion.
I don't necessarily think it's a conscious thing.
I think it's just sort of almost like that people-pleasing fear of wanting to fit in, whether that's conscious or unconscious.
And I often see that as a theme with women with ADHD.
They're very self-critical, lots of self-blame,
You know, there's at no point have I met one of these women and they've said, well, this is, you know, because this happened or that happened or because I've got a brain that's wired differently.
It's very much like this is my fault.
It's their own moral failings.
And that really strikes me with the women that I meet who get to perimenopause with late diagnosis.
And I just think we as society just enable this.
And we are perpetuating enabling it by not standing up and saying, actually, girls and women do have ADHD.
And the difficulty is because they mask so well, they often are hidden.
If you don't look for it, you have to look for it.
And the diagnostic criteria are exactly the same for boys and girls to be diagnosed with
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