r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 16d ago

Neuroscience ADHD misinformation on TikTok is shaping young adults’ perceptions. An analysis of the 100 most-viewed TikTok videos related to ADHD revealed that fewer than half the claims about symptoms actually align with clinical guidelines for diagnosing ADHD.

https://news.ubc.ca/2025/03/adhd-misinformation-on-tiktok/
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u/karosea 16d ago

There are professionals who won't diagnosed ADHD if you don't struggle in school as a kid. I have ADHD as bad as anyone and yet graduated high-school with a 3.75, got a BA in Psych with a 3.8 and then got a masters in school counseling with a 4.0 before I ever figured out I had ADHD. Then once I figured it out and started taking medication I spent the next year raging internally that I had been doing life on hard mode basically and felt I could have been significantly MORE successful had I been diagnosed earlier.

The US has a giant problem with professional misconceptions on ADHD.

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u/Eihe3939 16d ago

Of course, anyone could be more productive with amphetamine

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u/Fussel2107 16d ago

Yep. That's how crystal meth works. Makes people more productive

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u/Eihe3939 16d ago

And the same goes for adhd medication. They literally make everyone more productive. I know a lot of people don’t like hearing that but it doesn’t make that fact go away not to talk about it. I wait for the day adhd could be measured and not just based on answering questions. Anyone can do that