‘No One’s Ever Talked to Me About This Before’
Social media creators are helping women and people of color identify possible symptoms of A.D.H.D., a disorder most often diagnosed in white boys.
Rach Idowu runs a newsletter called Adulting With ADHD, in which she has described the difficulties she faced in receiving a diagnosis for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Credit.Adama Jalloh for The New York Times
By Nicole Clark
May 24, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
“When I was a kid, I had the sense things were more difficult for me,” Tiffany Bui recalled. It was hard for her to focus in school, and she was often forgetful. Throughout her life, she said, members of her family criticized these traits as faults.