How Much Does Jeanette Say the Public Knows About ADHD?

Jeanette, host of Excuse My ADHD, says she is taken aback by how little the public, and even professionals, seem to know about ADHD. She says the DSM lists something like 90 symptoms, but the image people carry is a little boy who cannot sit still or stop talking. That was her image too, until her husband said he thought she had it. She could sit in her room and read from morning to night, which she later understood as hyperfocus. Rather than recite a definition, she tells her own symptoms, including reading all eight Outlander books in two months and diving into sewing until the excitement wore off.