Health and Wellbeing
ADHD in Girls: Practical Ideas for Spotting and Supporting
Spot the quieter signs of ADHD in girls, like a mind that never switches off, and find out what helps them day to day.
- 23 minutes
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What you'll learn
- Recognise internal and verbal hyperactivity, not just the fidgety kind
- Understand rejection sensitivity dysphoria and how it affects friendships and self-esteem
- Explain time blindness and hyperfocus, and why getting out of the door is so hard
- Use visual prompts and broken-down instructions to help her finish tasks
- See why a girl who seems fine can still be struggling with ADHD
About this course
She sits still in class, so nobody thinks of ADHD. But she daydreams through lessons, can't get out of the door on time, talks non-stop about the things she loves and takes the smallest criticism to heart. Girls like her are often missed for years.
Here you'll see what ADHD can look like when the hyperactivity is on the inside. That might be a mind that races through the night, a need to keep talking, time blindness, or rejection sensitivity dysphoria, which hardly ever comes up in an assessment. You'll also pick up simple things that help, like visual prompts that show what 10 minutes looks like and instructions broken into small pieces.
It comes from a neurodiversity coach who masked her own ADHD until she was diagnosed at 34, and who is also the mum of two diagnosed girls.
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- 24 min
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