Neurodiversity – ADHD and Females
**BOOK NOW largest virtual ADHD conference in Europe**
We have a lot to learn! What’s your experience if you are a female with ADHD?
Changing Perceptions (6th – 9th October 2021) brought to you in collaboration by the ADHD Foundation: Neurodiversity Charity and ADHD Ireland.
* Day One is for educators
* Day Two is for parents and adults
* Day Three is for medical professionals
* Day Four is for children and young adults.
Bringing together global experts, leaders, and thinkers, this forward-thinking conference is for all those affected by ADHD and will seek to push for progress.
Why talk about females and ADHD?
I am very interested in this topic as ADHD with a number of family members with diagnoses. Despite having a number of ADHD traits myself this was not considered as a child at all. I was fidgety, a doodler, but not disruptive. I was chatty, enthusiastic, and impulsively volunteered to help with everything. I was anxious and a ruminator and had a ‘busy brain’ that often ended up trying lots of different hobbies because I was curious but gave them up if they bored me. I also seemed to work much harder than others to achieve what others seemed to do with less effort. As a student, I put in endless hours when others were ‘playing’. I look back and think now was that about inefficiency, or uncertainty about being good enough?…..
Dr Kuben Naidoo – Consultant Psychiatrist and Chair