Those from cultures that have been socially oppressed are more often labeled with defiant disorders and are under diagnosed with ADHD.
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Clinical identification rates in the United States for African American and Latinx populations tend to be lower than for non-Latinx White populations. Underdetection may result from mislabeling of ADHD symptoms as oppositional or disruptive in socially oppressed ethnic or racialized groups because of explicit or implicit clinician bias,leading to overdiagnosis of disruptive disorders.
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