Calling out the systems discrimination of girls and women with ADHD symptoms isn’t knocking others down. That’s like treating feminism as a personal attack on you because speaking up about women’s issues is an act of putting men down.

Think of how little leniency you get as a boy with ADHD. Now think about how girls and women don’t even get that, and are frequently punished for ‘acting out’ their ADHD symptoms.

There are [many widely cited studies proving the prevalence of underdiagnosis of girls with ADHD](A Review of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Women and Girls: Uncovering This Hidden Diagnosis - PMC share.google/u1QHV4FKNVe61kRbk), partly because the guidelines are decades old and derived from studies that deliberately excluded girls.