ADHD Awareness Month

October 2025

To provide reliable information and resources to help people thrive with ADHD. In keeping with our 2025 theme, The Many Faces of ADHD, we encourage the ADHD community to increase awareness and understanding by sharing ADHD information and supports with all who could benefit.

The ADHD Awareness Month Coalition would like to thank our past and current ADHD experts and all those who have submitted their ADHD art, ADHD stories, videos, and ADHD memes to inform and inspire.

Questions & Answers

Questions answered by ADHD experts

Where can I find reliable ADHD information and resources for living with ADHD?

  • Reliable information about ADHD can be found through CHADD, ADDA, and ACO.

What is ADHD Coaching?

  • ADHD coaches help their clients create systems and strategies to manage practical aspects of life.
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What are the most common relationship issues when one partner has ADHD?

  • Having under-managed ADHD in your relationship means angry interactions are likely. But once you understand ADHD better, you can find the love you thought you had lost.

Living with ADHD

  • Find options and strategies for parents of all ages of children and adults with ADHD from CHADD.

ADHD and Parent-Child Relationships

  • Parent-child issues often involve communication, parental stress, discipline, behavior management, emotions, and academics.

Understanding Girls and Women with ADHD

  • Unique factors make girls’ experience with ADHD different: including psychological risks, eating disorders, and general inattentiveness.

Myths and Facts

Myths about ADHD are harmful stories that perpetuate stigma and pain.

MYTH: ADHD doesn’t exist

  • FACT: There are more than 100,000 articles in science journals on ADHD and references to it in medical textbooks going back to 1775.
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MYTH: People with ADHD just can’t concentrate

  • FACT: Individuals with ADHD can concentrate when they are interested in or intrigued by what they are doing.
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MYTH: ADHD is overdiagnosed

  • FACT: The rates with which ADHD is diagnosed vary so much primarily due to diagnostic criteria and measurement methods used.
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MYTH: Only boys have ADHD

  • FACT: Boys are diagnosed two to three times as often as girls, but about 4.2% of girls have received a diagnosis of ADHD at some point in their life (and that’s not none!).
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MYTH: ADHD meds are addictive

  • FACT: The therapeutic use of stimulant medications for ADHD prevents addiction
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MYTH: ADHD is just an excuse for laziness

  • FACT: ADHD is really a problem with the chemical dynamics of the brain and it’s not under voluntary control.
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