References: ADHD Across The Lifespan

1. Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia - Persistence of ADHD into adulthood, adult presentation, and late diagnosis — the research backdrop for this chapter's lifespan arc.

2. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia - Includes epidemiology and sex-difference findings behind the gender diagnosis gap this chapter explains.

3. Menopause - Wikipedia - The hormonal transition whose estrogen decline interacts with ADHD compensation systems — background for this chapter's hormones section.

4. Women with Attention Deficit Disorder - Sari Solden - Underwood Books - Solden's 1995 book was the first major work on women's ADHD; she named the shame-and-disorganization spiral and the invisible, internalized presentation that this chapter's girls-and-women section builds on.

5. Understanding Girls with ADHD (Second Edition) - Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, and Patricia Quinn - Advantage Books - Littman and colleagues documented how girls' presentations differ — internalizing, masking, referral bias — and their framework is the standard account of why the nets miss girls.

6. For Adults - Overview - CHADD - Adult diagnosis, late diagnosis, and life-stage resources from the national resource center.

7. ADHD - NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health - Federal overview including lifespan course and adult recognition.

8. ADDA - Attention Deficit Disorder Association - The organization dedicated to adults with ADHD: late-diagnosis stories, workplace and life-stage support, and peer community.

9. ADDitude Magazine - ADDitude - Extensive clinician-reviewed coverage of women's ADHD, hormones, late diagnosis, and the adult diagnosis journey.

10. ADHD Evidence Project - Stephen Faraone et al. - Consensus evidence on persistence into adulthood and underdiagnosis in women — useful ammunition for the skeptical-relative conversations this chapter anticipates.