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The myth of gendered emotion, with Praga Agarwal

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

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Is There a Difference Between Male ADHD and Female ADHD?

There's been a massive surge recently in female diagnoses of ADHD though, hasn't there? Yes, absolutely. And we have to understand why this was not happening for a very long time because a lot of the symptoms of ADHD are very much something that does not manifest similarly in girls and women. I did not know that testosterone could be the production of testosterone could change in accordance with how you express emotion and that that can have an effect as well on female emotion. So if men are engaging in more of these testosterone fueling behavior and women are curbing these behaviors, then this gendered behavior or this gender socialization can also modulate testosterone.

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