Sasha Hamdani

They're like the daydreamers that are spacing out in class and they're doodling.

So those girls are pleasures to have in class.

they're not bothering anybody.

They're getting passed along.

And then what happens is as the external pressures rise and as they're doing harder things, as they're doing more adult things, like getting into relationships or starting families, your needs exponentially increase and what is demanded of you increases and you just aren't able to

to cope anymore.

And then it feels very much like a breaking point.

Two other reasons that people assigned female at birth don't get diagnosed.

Number one is the hormonal part of all of this.

When women are going through hormonal shifts, when your estrogen is dropping, your dopamine drops also, your symptoms get worse.

Now,

These women or girls who are going through their first periods or things like that, their ADHD symptoms are 10 out of 10.

Horrible.

And they're going through all of these attentional issues.

They're also going through emotional dysregulation because they're like, what do I do?

My dopamine's all off.

And that's when they're like, she's bitchy because of her period.

It's significant.

Wait, really?

It's more common.