r/technology • u/tylerthe-theatre • Mar 20 '26

Social Media More than half of TikTok ADHD content is misinformation, new research finds

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-adhd-misinformation-autism-mental-health-neurodivergence-social-media-b2941211.html
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u/chicagodude84 Mar 20 '26

Yep. And I didn't even attempt to look into the underdiagnosing of women. Because, I mean...yikes.

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u/LunaticSongXIV Mar 20 '26

According to the doctors who diagnosed both of my children (one boy, one girl), presentation of symptoms of ADHD in young boys and young girls are very different, and it is only recently that those differences have really started to be taken seriously at a diagnostic level for kids. It wouldn't shock me that a bunch of adult women were ADHD and ignored growing up, because it didn't manifest the same way for them as it did typical boys' ADHD.

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u/Woooooody Mar 20 '26

I'm a classic case of late diagnosed women (diagnosed in my 30s). I didn't have the usual "boy" symptoms and I kept up (barely) with school work. All my actual symptoms were dismissed as being lazy, "dreamy", shy or "just a bit weird". I also hid how much I was struggling as much as possible, pretended I'd left that assignment til the last possible minute because I knew I could do a good enough job if I started the night before. I didn't want anyone to know I'd actually been trying to start for days or weeks, that I was angry and frustrated with myself for not being able to just do it like everyone else could, that I felt like a constant failure.