Melissa Neff
speaker
1,584 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
Melissa Neff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
And there's a lot of in between.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think those are some of the things that get in the way of the diagnosis.
And I think there's just a general belief that girls can't have it and don't have it.
So people aren't looking for it.
Yes, absolutely.
Because with ADHD, some of the gender differences are, you know, girls tend to be less hyperactive and more inattentive, whereas boys again are sort of louder and more hyperactive and impulsive, et cetera, et cetera.
I hope so.
You know, I I often find myself teetering on this edge of if I were to go by the DSM five, which is what I'm supposed to do, this this girl does not meet criteria for an autism spectrum disorder, or she's sort of like like what you said with your experience with Asher, she's kind of on the borderline.
But then there's the question of is it valuable to give the person a label or not?
And sometimes it's really valuable to have that label and sometimes it's not.
Fandora's box.
So diagnoses exist for good intent, right?
So the idea is a diagnosis is a shared language that professionals and parents and individuals can use to talk about something that's really specific.
And if we know what it is, then we know how to treat it, or we hope we know how to treat it, right?
There's still a lot of fledgling, you know, attempts to treat a lot of.
these things.
So that shared language is essential.
I think you had mentioned and you've mentioned in some of your podcasts, you know, getting services is a huge reason for having a diagnosis.
Showing 181–200 of 1,584 · page 10 of 80
← Previous
Next →