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Dr. Zoe R. Smith

@drzoersmith.bsky.social
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Child & adolescent clinical psychologist supporting Black and/or Latiné teens with ADHD. Liberation. Healing. Radical hope ✊🏽Basketball. Books. Neurodiversity. 🏀📚🧠

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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Doomscrolling may matter more than social media use for college students. Emotionally focused doomscrolling was linked to anxiety, depression, #ADHD, and FoMO. Read now! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Doomscrolling vs. Screen Time: Mental Health Risks for College Students
College students are frequent users of social media and may be particularly vulnerable to doomscrolling, a pattern of repetitive engagement with negative or distressing content. Although doomscroll...
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Very excited!!! 🤗🤗🤗
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Julianna Collazo Vargas @julicollazovargas.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m delighted to share that I’ll be attending the @uofdenver.bsky.social Clinical Psychology PhD program this fall, mentored by @drzoersmith.bsky.social and @truedrdoom.bsky.social! Looking forward to continuing my work with maternal and children’s health🤰🏽🧠
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Torture. I’m devastated.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/03/2026
1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture. The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent. The ruling comes on trans day of visibility. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Conversion Therapy Bans On Transgender Day Of Visibility
"The fallout could be catastrophic," said Justice Jackson in her lone dissent of the 8-1 opinion.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2026
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I’m disgusted. This is child abuse. Severe trauma. Can lead to death. Wtf.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 31/03/2026
Torturing kids is legal in the name of religious freedom happy TDOV
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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#TLDR; Black and/or Latiné youth with #ADHD experience high levels of #trauma, we as a field just haven't been asking the right questions. Different types of trauma (e.g., #discrimination, #PTSD) affect cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) differently. For more, read it: doi.org/10.1080/0929...
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Exploring the impact of trauma exposure on cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) in Black and/or Latiné youth with ADHD: a multilevel investigation
Youth with cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) report experiencing a decoupling or disengagement of effortful mental process from their external environment and hypoactivity. To many familiar wi...
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our first full sample publication from my RWJF Health Equity for Scholars project AND my 50th publication!!! 🥳 AND the first article published in a special issue on #CDS I'm guest editing for Child Neuropsychology. Lots to celebrate! doi.org/10.1080/0929...
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Exploring the impact of trauma exposure on cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) in Black and/or Latiné youth with ADHD: a multilevel investigation
Youth with cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) report experiencing a decoupling or disengagement of effortful mental process from their external environment and hypoactivity. To many familiar wi...
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our first full sample publication from my RWJF Health Equity for Scholars project AND my 50th publication!!! 🥳 AND the first article published in a special issue on #CDS I'm guest editing for Child Neuropsychology. Lots to celebrate! doi.org/10.1080/0929...
doi.org
Exploring the impact of trauma exposure on cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) in Black and/or Latiné youth with ADHD: a multilevel investigation
Youth with cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS) report experiencing a decoupling or disengagement of effortful mental process from their external environment and hypoactivity. To many familiar wi...
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Thanks to everyone who engaged w/ us at APSARD! There’s much more we can do to include people with #ADHD who are Black, Latiné, girls, nonbinary, & many more ppl that are excluded. We found higher #discrimiantion meant kids were less likely to have IEP/504s. This must stop. #neurodiversity
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Unrivaled #wbb watch party!!! Let’s go Rose BC!!!! #basketball #wnba
White board with blue, green, and red writing with unrivaled rules and information
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Yes, and a five year old is one of those immune compromised people. It takes a minute for kids to be able to fight off disease. It’s why we vaccinate them. It’s also why we are hearing a lot more about children dying from the flu. 🙃
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What a year for the ACCTION Team 2025 has been!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y4u4q5/ #psych #adhd #academicsky #BlackAdemics
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2025 was quite a year for the ACCTION team!! Awards: 16+ Graduates: 5+ Grants Happening/Happened: 9 Grants Submitted: 18 Papers Published: 3+ Papers Submitted: 11+ Conference Talks: 17 Posters: 13 T...
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it. You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Alt-Ac Support network
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I learned a lot from @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. RIP. Donated, will you? chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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Sharisse CP @scpreads.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hoopla, Boundless, and Palace Project are free through the library. Libro.fm is a good paid option.
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Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Does anyone know of non Amazon non Spotify places that have audio books for purchase in an app? I use Libby but my library recently decreased the amount of holds/loans so need some other options! #books #bookSky #audiobook #audio
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Ok #wbb Excited for unrivaled though missing 😇 Rose, Lunar Owls, Hive, Laces, Breeze, Vinyl, Phantom, Mist Don’t really want to lock this in because honestly the teams are so strong but gotta lock in Excited for Breeze so much young talent 👏🏽 #basketball #Unrivaled @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social 👏🏽
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Woops www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DyJKEL/ #adhd #psychiatry #academicsky
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Woopsie #meeting #time #adhd #organization #problem @ACCTION Team
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
@leximcmenamin.com did one of my favorite interviews for The Viral Underclass. What’s literary NY with almost no outlets for writers to work at?! We can’t all work at Hellgate www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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How The Pandemic Exposed "A Viral Underclass"
"Viruses show that we're very connected, but the way we experience them can be quite different."
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This is, pardon my language, FUCKING BULLSHIT! @leximcmenamin.com is a top tier journalist who had a great interview with Mamdani THIS WEEKEND!!! The kind the NYT could never do. It’s bullshit of Anna Wintour to destroy the TV politics desk on the eve of a mayoralty they were born to cover
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#adhd #woops #academicsky www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DDXD3u/
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Woopsie #meeting #time #adhd #organization #problem @ACCTION Team
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
There's a couple of feeds 😊
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Any mutual aids for people struggling to eat here? Found on twitter but haven’t found any here yet. Send if you can & I’ll donate/uplift! 💕 hate that we have to do this & mutual aid & donating money to food pantries (they can stretch $ further that we can for food) is what we who can, can do
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Meanwhile, in Chicago, hundreds waited in line at food pantries after SNAP benefits were halted. "I work a full-time job," said 26-year-old Jazmine Blair. "But I still can't afford basic stuff and it's kind of sad. I'm surviving. I'm not living."
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As SNAP benefits are cut off, Chicagoans line up at food pantries: ‘I’m surviving. I’m not living’
Anxiety and distrust remained high despite rulings Friday that the government must fund the food assistance program. President Trump said he would fund SNAP but wanted more direction from the court, w...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
In the Bronx, Louisville, and small towns across Connecticut, it's much the same. "People from all walks of life are seeking help now. The pantry is no longer for the poor, for the elderly, for the needy. The pantry now is for the whole community, everybody."
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SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries
People across the country formed long lines for free meals and groceries at food pantries and drive-through giveaways Saturday, after monthly benefits through SNAP were suddenly cut off because of the...
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Joined a queer book club and loving it! Read Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle & The Gilda Stories by Jewell Gomez Would recommend both for different reasons! #BlackBookSky #QueerBookSky #BookSky
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Delighted to see TERRY DACTYL in Reads for the Rest of Us, thank you, @karlajstrand.com💕 "With themes of art, love, loss, friendship, identity and connection, this is a fierce fever dream of a book."⚡⚡⚡ msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...
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November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/11/2025
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
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Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 02/11/2025
Yes, Republicans *want* to starve people, but how many people are aware of that? Just like they’ve used the shutdown as an opportunity to consolidate power in the executive, they’re also using it as a way to kill programs that they can’t vote out.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 02/11/2025
If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Keep supporting your local public library!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DSGWJJ/ #library #schoolsky #public
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Support libraries!!! #library #support #libby
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Day 31: ADHD Awareness Month!!! Thanks for taking this journey with me lol of course I forgot to post the last video 🙃 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DSqUsV/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #desk #Blackademics #work #schoolsky
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Last day of the best month ever! #ADHDAwarenessMonth #october #adhd @ACCTION Team
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 31: ADHD Awareness Month!!! Thanks for taking this journey with me #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #desk #Blackademics #work
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 30: ADHD & masking www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DSHyXK/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #mask #Blackademics #masking
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#ADHD & #masking #ADHDAwarenessMonth @ACCTION Team
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 29 video 2: task switching & breaks www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DSVbew/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #procrastinate #motivation #task #Blackademics #break
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Ppl with #ADHD find task switching hard AND often struggle to listen to body cues. So here’s a reminder to take that body break if you need it!! #ADHDAwarenessMonth #break #task @ACCTION Team
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 29: !!! Some examples of our team’s projects! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DSxa2G/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #procrastinate #motivation #trauma #youth #racism #Blackademics
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#ADHDAwarenessMonth learn about our @ACCTION Team projects!! #adhd #trauma #coping
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Today started off rough & I reminded myself I was okay which helped me regulate back to pay attention during the meeting There’s days like this #ADHDAwarenessMonth www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFWaFS/
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Anyone else have this kind of morning?? 🫠 #adhd #ADHDAwarenessMonth @ACCTION Team #morning
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Day 28 Update: Procrastination lost today!!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFsp9b/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #procrastinate #motivation
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I DID IT!!! Motivation: 1 Accoutnbaily: 1000000 Procrastination: .5 #ADHDAwarenessMonth #procrastination #accountability #adhd
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Finally catching up!!! Day 28: procrastination station. Motivation. Tough!!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFX7xe/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #academicsky #procrastinate #motivation
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Motivation: 0 Procrastination: 10000000000000000000 #adhd #ADHDAwarenessMonth #motivation #procrastination @ACCTION Team
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Day 27: ADHD acceptance! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFCy7F/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #adhd #acceptance #mentalhealth #psychiatry #psychscisky #AcademicSky
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How can you be more accepting of ppl with #ADHD? #ADHDAwarenessMonth #ADHDAcceptance
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Day 26: ADD technically is ADHD Inattentive Presentation (& has been for decades!), yet ppl are still getting told they have ADD. It’s a ADHD! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFQ5gH/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #PsychSciSky #psychiatry #neurodiverse #AcademicSky #adhd #mentalhealth
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Technically everything falls never the umbrella of #ADHD and it’s important to follow the langue of the people you’re working with! #ADHDAwarenessMonth #add @ACCTION Team
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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Day 25: there are three presentations of ADHD, Inattentive, Combined, & Hyperactive/Impulsive Presentations. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DFQBdC/ #ADHDAwarenessMonth #PsychSciSky #psychiatry #neurodiverse #AcademicSky #adhd #mentalhealth
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Did you know there are 3 presentations of #ADHD? #adhdAwarenessMonth @ACCTION Team
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