Mel Robbins

You just have trouble directing it at times.

And so boys are a little bit more fidgety.

And you kind of notice it because they're fidgety, they interrupt, they have trouble directing their focus.

Girls have the opposite symptoms.

They tend to daydream, they get quieter, and they get harder on themselves.

Now here's what gets interesting and really life-changing for people to learn.

If you have undiagnosed ADHD or dyslexia or executive functioning,

what happens as the primary symptom is you develop anxiety because you are sitting in a classroom or in a setting where you're being asked to do things all day long that your brain can't structurally do right now.

And so anxiety develops.

So there's a huge generation of women, they call us the lost generation,

of women that were diagnosed with anxiety in our high school and our college years and then medicated with something to quell the anxiety, but the underlying issue was always undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia.

It's a great question.

There's all kinds of things you can do.

And I think kind of just understanding the way that your brain works or learns helps you better.

do all kinds of things, whether there's systems for organization, there's certain types of interventions that they do with kids that really help develop and train.

And this is how I found out at the age of 47 that I was both dyslexic and had ADHD.

Wow.

the same way that most women do.

Our kids start struggling in school like you did, Will.

They get labeled a behavioral issue.