Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Could you have ADHD?

Here’s the thing: we all misplace our keys or phone. We don’t always finish what we start. We might fidget or zone out in meetings, miss appointments, make impulse purchases, fall down the rabbit hole of social media when procrastinating, and sometimes feel overwhelmed by the juggle that is modern parenting. But that doesn’t mean we have ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). We’re humans, not bots (and even they don’t function glitch-free). For most of us these symptoms are a momentary nuisance, but for 1 in 20 New Zealanders they become a major stumbling block for managing the ‘big’ stuff: getting a

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