19 h. ago ADHD diagnoses at university where Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett studied rises by 570%...so more than students than ever get extra exam time

Trinity College Dublin is paving the way for an ever larger cohort of neuro-divergent members with ADHD now the third most common disability among undergraduates.

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7 d. ago Millie Bright: ‘I’m really proud of Lucy Bronze for sharing her story’

Chelsea and England defender on the power of football, the pitch named after her and praise for her teammate for talking about her ADHD and autism diagnosis“When you experience the things we have in the women’s game, it does open your eyes to the struggles of others,” says Millie Bright. “It does make you more aware of all kinds of different barriers people might face. You really appreciate the struggles that people have to go through and the constant barriers and battles that have to be fought every single day just to exist. Literally just to exist. You’re not asking to be better than anyone, you’re just asking to exist and be able to do what you love doing, whatever that is, in sport or beyond sport; things that are just part of living a full life, and everyone deserves a full life.”The Chelsea and England defender is sitting in the small stand at Cobham FC’s brilliantly named Leg O’ Mutton Field talking about the power of football. Last year Bright was back in Killamarsh, the vil...

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1 week ago ADHD influencer explains why she needs benefits for taxis and takeaways

Alina is a mental health influencer with over 100,000 followers on TikTok who explained why certain disability benefits are so important to people diagnosed with autism and ADHD

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1 week ago Young people are now learning about ADHD on TikTok. Here’s the downside

Researchers say that while TikTok can be an ‘incredible tool for raising awareness and reducing stigma’, it’s not all good

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1 week ago Doctor's ADHD quiz with 11 questions to determine if you have it

Dr Ali Ajaz says the criteria for diagnosing ADHD is “biased against women in general” and that it is especially helpful for women wondering if they have ADHD as well as men.

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2 w. ago England star Lucy Bronze opens up on autism and ADHD and how diagnoses helped her on the pitch

Bronze has almost every accolade in women’s football and spoke for the first time about her neurodivergence

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2 w. ago England Lionesses hero Lucy Bronze bravely opens up on autism diagnosis

England and Chelsea player Lucy Bronze has spoken about how her diagnoses of autism and ADHD four years ago helped her understand herself - and propelled her career

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2 w. ago Nearly all University of Oxford students screened for ADHD are told they have it after just 90 minute assessment

Statistics show the UK's top university has an increasingly higher number of disabled people than the rest of the higher education sector - amounting to nearly 1 in 3.

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2 w. ago Rapper J Grange: “I had a tough time at school – but ADHD makes me who I am”

Musician and entrepreneur J Grange says he wouldn’t be himself without ADHD and dyspraxia. He speaks out about his diagnosis to mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 17-25)

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3 w. ago From forgetfulness to disorganisation – eight subtle signs of ADHD in adults

ADHD is often perceived as a childhood condition but it can persist into adulthood, often in less obvious ways

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3 w. ago Daydreaming, social awkwardness: Has the internet diagnosed you with autism or ADHD?

Autism and ADHD diagnoses are spiking. But some psychiatrists argue we’ve reached the point of ‘overdiagnosis’. So, how did we get here, and why is the internet making it so much worse?

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3 w. ago Number being prescribed ADHD drugs increasing at 18% per year

The number of people being diagnosed with ADHD has rocketed since pandemic and the lockdown

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3 w. ago 'Breastfeeding as an autistic mum feels like hiking in the desert carrying a baby crocodile'

Before she was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, single mum Laurene thought not wanting to touch her baby made her 'bad'

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3 w. ago The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?

A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathologyFor many years, people living in Lyme, Connecticut, were plagued by mysterious flu-like symptoms, rashes and joint pains. Patients were convinced that their symptoms had something to do with the deer that roamed the nearby woods and the ticks they frequently found clinging to their clothes. But because the symptoms were so ill-defined and there was no treatment, physicians dismissed the symptoms as psychosomatic.Then in 1975, alarmed by the exceptionally high rates of juvenile arthritis in Lyme, the Connecticut health department decided to investigate. It took seven years but eventually, in 1982, they identified a spiral-shaped bacterium in the midgut of deer ticks that was also present in the blood of sick people. All it took to spark the disorder was for an infected tick to latch on to an unsuspecting victim and inject the bacterium under their skin....

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3 w. ago Former SNP MP Mhairi Black says she could ‘maybe’ join another party in future

She also said she did not go public with her ADHD diagnosis because she feared some at Westminster would use it against her.

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