Bob Dendry on Nostr: The clinical guidelines for diagnosis of ADHD require symptoms to be present before ...

The clinical guidelines for diagnosis of ADHD require symptoms to be present before the age of 12 years old. Thus (at least in Australia) most Psychiatrists require either your school reports (don't have them anymore) or your parents to back up that you had issues at a young age. My mother especially will not admit to strangers that I ever had concentration issues as a child.