Some of us were never ten year old white boys and so didn& #39;t get the early diagnosis, intervention, and support we deserved even though a we were displaying textbook symptoms, thanks https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht"> https://twitter.com/JakeWebber9/status/1318380998476746753">https://twitter.com/JakeWebbe...

The tell is in the second tweet where he says "people diagnose themselves to be quirky."

When& #39;s the last time you heard a man described as quirky?

He means women.

Women are significantly less likely to get a childhood diagnosis for ADHD because we are held to higher behavioral standards and learn to mask our symptoms.

Many women HAVE to self - diagnose and then advocate for themselves to hell and back to get a Dx.

I got officially diagnosed in college, because my school refused to meet their obligations to me under the ADA unless I had a recent diagnosis for dyslexia. So I got the kind of screening that involves two days of testing.

It cost my family a month& #39;s income.

And even I didn& #39;t believe that diagnosis, because I& #39;d internalized so much bullshit about ADHD and how the only "valid" presentation was how it looked in white boys - - behavior the rest of us couldn& #39;t get away with in a million years.