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How common is ADHD?

In this video Catharina Hartman tells how often ADHD occurs and what the distribution between boys and girls is.

In this video Catherina Hartman tells us how often ADHD occurs and how many girls and boys have it.

The idea that everybody thinks that they have ADHD will be a recurring story on internet or what people say at parties. Scientific research has shown, however, that the number of people with ADHD has stayed the same all these years.

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