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/StoppableHulk 16d ago

I know ADHD folks also feel this pressure to be “normal” and it’s what really sets off the depression and anxiety.

And like you mention, this pressure isn't just social or peer pressure. The pressure is we'll lose jobs or get in trouble with the law because of this disability. It is exhausting. The world is not meant for you, and if you ever forget it for a minute it grinds you up.

Not to mention the perpetual added stress of pharmacies not having or running out of the medication we require to function, which we need to follow a series of steps to get every 30 days or we run out of the medication that allows us to follow those steps to get the medication in the first place. And now added to that the constant threat of having our medication taken away and us sent to "reparenting camps" by the idiot in charge of the health department now.

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u/drunkenvalley 15d ago

And then there's also just... the personal dissatisfaction, that something you know needs to be done isn't done.

I don't need to have an outside force to remind me or anything. The room that needs renovating is entirely my own fault, and bothers no one but me, but it still deeply bothers me.

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u/StoppableHulk 15d ago

This is why I have both loved and hated home ownership. I love it, because I truly enjoy home projects and updating and changing things, painting, replacing trim, redoing rooms, etc.

I hate it because I cannot use my eyeballs inside my own house without seeing 50 new project plans explode in the HUD behind my eyeballs and Home Depot shopping lists starting to unspool as I'm just trying to make breakfast.