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What is fascinating to me is how many mothers, predominantly I'm seeing it with young-ish families,

sort of maybe pre-teen kids, are being diagnosed at the moment.

Am I right? And that feels like an explosion of women and mothers in particular getting diagnosed.

Why do you think that is?

Well, I suppose these mothers, I'm just maybe

presuming here, because the reason that they didn't know that they have ADHD themselves for so long,

it's because society was catching up with our understanding. But then because we're seeing

more children being diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental condition

because they are struggling through transition.

You know, in this transition, if you're saying pre-teen, you know, there's a hormonal transition there

when they go into puberty, but also going from primary to secondary school.

And once they get in there, it's a whole different ballgame, isn't it, from primary to secondary?

And they struggle to do the things that they are expected to be independent to do,

you know, because the brain development of a child with ADHD is three to five years delayed,

you know, compared to their peers without ADHD. So it's not

just the whole part of the brain. It's the part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex that

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