Across two decades and dozens of countries, the world has quietly redrawn its understanding of who carries the weight of ADHD — expanding its borders beyond restless children to encompass adults, women, and those whose inattention was long mistaken for something else. A sweeping review in the Journal of Psychopharmacology confirms that between 2000 and 2018, diagnoses and prescriptions rose in every age group, with young adult men seeing increases measured not in percentages but in multiples of ten. This is less a story of a disorder suddenly spreading and more a story of recognition catching