This is the Guardian.

Hi, Ian Sample here. The Science Weekly team is taking some time off and we'll be back with you next week.

In the meantime we've picked out a couple of our favourite episodes from 2022 to bring in the new year.

Today we're returning to May when my co-host Madeline asked why aren't women getting diagnosed with ADHD?

In this episode we heard what it's like to be a woman with ADHD and why it's so often missed in this group.

I hope you enjoy it. We'll be back on Thursday. See you know, then. It's a bit like, you know those multi stereo systems that we used to have back in

the 90s where they've got six different disc drives and you've got

CDs in every single one but they're all doing their own thing.

This is Jasmine. She has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known as ADHD.

It feels like basically I'm dealing with this brain that is consistently prone to distraction.

It will hunt for whatever is novel, it will hunt for whatever is fun at the time,

and yeah, it's quite an exhausting position to be in.

But Jasmine has gone through almost all her life without an ADHD diagnosis

even though there were some pretty clear signs.

I swear there was a year where I lost my keys every week and had to replace them.

The most hilarious thing was when my housemate actually ended up by me a beeper to attach to my keys.

I lost the beeper.

Eventually though, she came across an article about ADHD and it's under-diagnosis in women.

And then I started to clock certain things, you know the perpetual daydreaming.

I am an

insomnia I don't really sleep that well and after that speaking to one of my good

friends and saying well what do you what do you think is I'm starting to think it might be me and they were like

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