Dr. Kieran Kennedy

So it can be tricky, but I guess it's kind of the underpinning is that we go off those core

inattentive and hyperactive symptoms.

And then from there, we tease out how those things impact someone.

So it is complex and everyone can be different, but there are sort of core symptoms and things that we know really look and feel and sound like ADHD.

And I guess those things kind of are the core structure to an ADHD diagnosis that everyone needs to meet.

Yeah, my grandma asked me the same thing not that long ago.

Oh, really?

Yeah, she was like, it just was never around when we were at school.

Definitely.

It probably just wasn't recognised for most people.

And if it was recognised, it was, again, as we've said, it was those, you know, kids that were just absolutely not able to sit still or they were running around or being really disruptive and...

Unfortunately, for a lot of those kids, it wasn't noted as being ADHD.

It was labeled as, well, you're just really naughty or really bad.

You don't want to work at school.

So it's always been there.

But absolutely, it's something that's just really come more to the fore recently.

But it is a diagnosis in some form that's been really kind of talked about in present, sort of even from the 1960s, the 70s.

And so it's been around for a long time.

I think it's now...

more that we're just really, really recognising how it can impact kids and adults in a more subtle way.