Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon everyone is Susan Coffin here today for Attitude Magazine's

ADHD experts broadcast? Welcome to all of you listening in today. I know many of

you I am sure are women with ADHD who are here today to hear

our super special guest speaker Terry Matland talk about the secret lives of

women with ADHD or what no one ever told you or asked you about your own ADHD I

don't need to tell all of you we all know it better than anyone that ADHD is a

gender neutral condition and yet boys are still diagnosed three to four times more often than

girls and women. We are much more likely to have the distracted, quiet, easy to

dismiss symptoms of inattent ADHD and what happens to undiagnosed girls they end up with

low self-esteem with anxiety with even depression and we tend to believe that all of our

symptoms are personal faults and once when with

ADHD get a diagnosis then they just frankly just feel overwhelmed. Terry

B Allen our guest today is a therapist or writer or coach a consultant and she is

got a super set of survival a

super set of survival tips for women with ADHD, a special focus on women with ADHD and

a special focus on women with ADHD and she's the author by the way have two great books

that I recommend to all of you.

One is called the Queens of Distraction and the

other is called Survival Tips for Women with ADHD. She runs a website called

ADHD.com and she is here to share some really useful information

today information about how to understand what it means to live like a woman

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