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January 24, 2011 at 4:53 pm
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They can indeed get worse with age. During times of great biological transformation in the body (childhood, adolescence, perimenopause, menopause, geriatric), the symptoms often become more pronounced. Once the transformation is complete, they tend to recede a bit.
My mom’s geriatric specialist said that the medical profession is only just realizing that many cases of what they always thought was senility, may actually be an increase in symptoms of the undiagnosed ADHD that the patient has had for his/her entire life!
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