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

Hey everyone I'm Susan Kaufman I'm here for Attitude magazine and you're listening

to the ADHD experts audio. If you ask an average person to describe someone with ADHD, it's pretty likely that they're going to describe a hyperactive 8 year old boy bouncing around the classroom whose teachers are begging for help with his behavior.

But the fact is that the highest

race of diagnosis in recent years are among adult women a group that's really only

probably in the last five to ten years been discovered to have attention deficit

disorder at the same rate as children and men in general. The special issues of

diagnosis and treatment and symptoms for women with ADHD are the topic of a

broadcast today.

And our guest Michelle Novatny PhD is especially qualified to address this.

She's been a practicing psychologist, leader in the field for over 30 years, the author of several classic books for adults, especially the aptly named.

What does everyone else know that I don't know on social skills?

And she's the past president of Atta the very wonderful organization for adults

with attention deficit disorder and in fact it was thanks to her that 10 years ago for the first

time ADHD awareness was recognized by the Congress of the United States.

So Michelle welcome.

Thanks Susan, good to be here and I can't believe it's been 10 years.

That's exciting.

It's pretty amazing, huh? Things have really changed. All right, so what we're going to go over today is women with ADHD. I actually have been in this field long enough that I was in the field. I was one of the first people who

said, you know, adults can't have ADHD too. When I started, adults couldn't have ADHD. And I kept on looking

at the parents that were bringing their kids in.

And it's like, you know what, they do too.

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