In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, GP Dr Sarah Carty explains why ADHD looks so different in girls and women — and why so many only recognise it years, sometimes decades, after it first showed up.

She tells Laura how the "quiet" presentation — daydreaming, internal restlessness, working twice as hard to look fine — slowly turns into anxiety, perfectionism, and a quiet erosion of confidence. It's a clip that gives language to something a lot of women have silently carried for years.

• Why girls are diagnosed much later than boys — and what gets missed
• Masking, and how it shows up as perfectionism, daydreaming, or "just being quiet"
• The link between unrecognised ADHD and anxiety, panic and exhaustion
• How girls end up labelling themselves as "stupid", "lazy" or "not academic" — and why that's so far from the truth
• Why the right diagnosis can change a person's whole self-story

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