Symptoms of ADHD in Girls

The common symptoms of ADHD in Girls and why these symptoms are commonly overlooked and how our girls fly under the radar.

ADHD in Girls

• Anxiety

• Needs to know what is going to happen in a new situation

• Worries about others

• Extremely Empathetic

• Intuitive

• Very observant

• Can freeze in situations when they don't know what to do and panic

• People Pleasing - Always wants to help out at home or school - Teacher thinks they are a model student

• Loves Praise

• Perfectionist - Gets frustrated when things aren't done "perfectly"

• Emotional Dysregulation - Tantrums, emotional reaction that doesn't fit the situation

• Binge eating - Sometimes not knowing when they've had enough of something

• Extremely forgetful

• Can either be very outgoing or "dramatic" or can be a wallflower and go with the flow trying to go unnoticed

• Can have trouble maintaining friendships

• Messy OR have OCD tendencies - one extreme to the other - Messy room or leaves many areas messy

• Never knows where anything is

• Talkative - Tell long stories

• Talking fast

• Always starting something, then moving on to something else without packing away

• Always distracted

• Imaginative play

• Always in their own little world

• Always needing things to be fair

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