Welcome to the attention deficit disorder expert podcast series by Attitude magazine.

Hey 80 deers, it's Susan Coffin here at Attitude Magazine, and we're very, very fortunate today to have Zoe Kessler.

She is going to be talking about very important subject midlife ADHD diagnosis in women,

meet the challenges, unlock their potential and find happiness.

Zellie Kusser is a wonderful resource for anyone with ADHD.

She's a best-selling author, a journalist, and a motivational speaker.

She's a top blogger, check her blog out at psych central.com,'s called ADHD from Ada Zoe and we're fortunate

to have her as a frequent contributor to Attitude magazine she also has a

wonderful book which I can't wait to read upcoming published in September called

ADHD according to Zoe the real deal on relationships finding your focus and

finding your keys so with that let me turn it over to Zoe. Thank you for being here.

Okay. Hello everyone and I'd like to thank you as well for joining us tonight. I'm really

excited about this session and I wanted to thank Attitude magazine

because they've definitely been a real lifeline for me. So here we go for the first

slide we're going to talk about the fact that girls historically have been much less

likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than boys and I mean that can be a webinar

unto itself of course. But a few little points of that are that girls

tend to be more of the inattentive type. We don't cause as much trouble. Don't call as much attention to ourselves. But for me,

if you're a woman with ADHD who's just as rambunctious as those boys and bouncing off the walls,

I'm sorry to say you would still fall through the cracks.

Historically, this was thought to be a childhood disorder and one that only boys experienced

well.

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