ADHD is often considered a boy's diagnosis, but girls are as likely as boys to bear the symptoms. This requires knowledge among social workers to prevent girls from being stigmatized and create destructive strategies with social consequences. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyses women´s experiences of living with ADHD and to understand the social consequences and adaptation strategies women use from a life course perspective. This qualitative study is based on autobiographies and blogs to provide answers to the research question. It appears that the women suffer from internalized symptoms that often go unnoticed and are noticed only when women's self-esteem is damaged, as they are no longer able to hold together and destructive strategies such as self-harm, eating disorders and addiction are developed. Like boys from whom the diagnostic template is structured, it also appears that the girls have symptoms such as lack of consistency, impulsivity and difficulty in keeping concentration, however, it appears that girls do not have acting out behavior as boys. The results in this study show that girls often were diagnosed in high age, which is often when they are adult women. It appears that the women experience a redress, belonging and relief once the diagnosis takes place. Not all women in the study have experienced that their difficulties have been noticed, but instead they have been identified as deviant by their surroundings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-110119 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Petersson, Emma, Holmberg, Rosita |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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