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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn’t know my teen daughter had anxiety and ADHD until she was in high school.  Looking back, it’s hard to understand how we missed all the signs, but apparently this isn’t unusual for females who are underdiagnosed.  Once she was medicated, things became SO much easier in terms of her emotional reactivity, responses to requests for things she didn’t want to do, etc.  All the classic difficulties of ADHD.  I now understand why her dad and I struggled the way we did parenting her - even when she was a baby, it was a struggle.  It’s kind of frustrating because both DH’s parents and mine couldn’t understand why we couldn’t “control” our child but we learned over time that she was not neurotypical and it was always a losing game to try…I wish I hadn’t put so much pressure on myself as a new mom blaming myself.[/quote]

What were the signs?[/quote]

Very hyperactive in the younger years but then it transitioned to daydream/spaciness, forgetting things, difficulty initiating a task or finishing one.[/quote]

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