ADHD is indiscriminate of gender. If we look for naughty boys, we'll find naughty boys.

If we look for inattentive girls, we'll find inattentive girls.

If we reconstruct our thoughts and go and look for the hyperactive woman, we'll find the hyperactive woman, the impulsive woman.

We just don't look and society hasn't looked over the years.

So there isn't the gender split that history would say.

Phil Anterton PhD has over 20 years of experience in the field of ADHD.

And has assessed over 50,000 people.

The founder of ADHD 360, Europe's largest ADHD organization.

He has a wealth of lived experience rivaled by no other.

He is the ADHD expert.

The impact of ADHD doesn't come from pure inattention.

It comes from the emotional things that come downstream.

Why is it that the lad next to you who is perhaps not as bright as you

gets the answer right when the teacher asks,

but you'll make to look a fool because you haven't followed the lesson?

You build a life pattern of all of those things going on. You very soon get to be quite anxious about what's going on in your life, quite depressed, but not clinically depressed. You're actually situationally pissed off. Part of the diagnostic process is to look to see if the symptoms and impairments have been caused by trauma. We've got to flip that. What if the symptoms and impairments have caused trauma? And I don't think we understand that enough. I look back now and

think, cracky, we didn't understand what we were doing.

Phil, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me. It was about a year ago we first met.

It was. We were at a year ago we first met. It was.

We were at a festival under a big tent and you were interviewing me and a couple of other people.

And I remember thinking at the time to go into the effort of hiring out a tent, organizing all of these ADHD people together. You must have huge motivation

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