In conversations on the subject, we are often asked why it is important to talk separately about attention deficit disorders in girls, so here is an opening for a long answer: 
• Boys are diagnosed in a ratio of 1: 3 to girls
• Girls are diagnosed 5 years late on average (boys aged seven, and girls only 12 years old).
• The girls’ coping, especially prior to diagnosis, is by way of acting in, so gendered. That is, unlike boys, they mainly interfere with themselves, suffer from headaches and abdominal pain, develop emotional problems to the point of depression, suffer from impaired confidence and self-worth, as well as eating disorders.
• Girls tend to show symptoms of attention deficit at a much higher rate in many structures (type 1) and the symptoms are especially noticeable in the post-ovulatory stage. Boys, are more likely to express symptoms of hyperactivity (type2; type3).
In the booklet we looked at attention deficit disorder from a gender perspective, focusing on childhood and adolescence. We examined whether the prevalence among girls is lower, or whether they suffer from underdiagnosis? We discussed symptoms and ways of identification, difficulties, benefits as well as ways of coping.
But perhaps most important of all is that we debated quite a bit in writing the booklet, how to deal with the word “disorder”. The medical and educational staff define it this way, and many of the girls experience it as such and it even leads them to suffering. At the same time, the “disorder” is often a source of creative and unique vision of the world, includes a rare ability to make connections and connections and is part of their unique fingerprint.