For a long time, neurodivergent diagnoses for conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) were mostly for boys who couldn’t sit still in class due to hyperactivity and a tendency to be distracted.

However, this has changed in doctors’ rooms and online, with many female social media content creators posting content about how neurodivergence presents differently in them. Diagnoses in adulthood are also becoming more frequent...

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