Gender Differences Of ADHD In Boys

ADHD can be diagnosed in kids as early as 3 years old! Everyone should learn more about ADHD, which would result in a more educated, inattentive community. This paper will be going in depth and explaining ADHD by focusing on three subtopics: Treatment, gender Differences, and ADHD in kids. Overall, ADHD has a lot of interesting info to learn about.

The following paragraph will talk about gender differences with ADHD in boys and girls. Boys are more likely to get ADHD than girls, mainly because girls’ ADHD is more subtle. Symptoms in boys are the more stereotypical symptoms like hyperactivity, rebellious behavior, being easily distracted and having a short attention span. Girls symptoms usually include

depression, short attention spans,

being inattentive, and low self esteem, but usually the symptoms go away with age in boys and girls. Girls can have boys’ symptoms like hyperactivity, but it’s just not as common. Other girls symptoms Aare non stop talking, daydreaming, disorganization, and being overly emotional. The next paragraph will talk about treatments for ADHD.
First off, ADHD can’t be cured, it can be treated. Some ways of doing it is by taking medications, going to therapy, or seeing medical specialists. Adult ADHD is usually treated with medicine. The three main types of medications include stimulants, cognition enhancers, and antihypertensive drugs. Side effects of taking medicines could be having an increased heart rate or high blood pressure, and if someone doesn’t have ADHD and are taking meds, it can give them the effects of ADHD. There are other ways of treating ADHD like eating a nutritious meal, exercising, playing outside and having good social skills.
ADHD affects millions of kids around the world. Some symptoms mainly seen in kids are low self esteem, inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and troubled listening. Some kids might also have trouble remembering things or following instructions. Girls are usually diagnosed before age 12 and boys usually before age 7. It can be challenging to recognize ADHD in little kids because most little kids are hyper and inattentive, but the impulsivity usually gives it away. Most people are diagnosed as kids more than adults.
ADHD is quite an interesting topic and this paper only explains a fraction of it .Don’t forget ADHD can’t be cured but there are short term treatments for it. Boys are more likely to be diagnosed than girls and Kids can be diagnosed with ADHD as early as 3 yrs old. Now that some Students know more about ADHD, they can inform more people about it, resulting in a more educated population. ADHD was really fun to write about and ADHD is more serious than what most people realize.