There has been an uptick in ADHD TikTok videos over the last year or so. There are a few TikTokers that do basically nothing else. Since the core symptoms of ADHD won’t provide you with content forever, those channels have continuously moved into symptoms that are more and more loosely connected to ADHD and thus more and more present in people who don’t have ADHD.
Now, since medical professionals have been super reluctant to diagnose or treat ADHD for some reason, there is a huge distrust in diagnoses. It’s said that ADHD is both the most underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed psychiatric disorder at the same time.
So people who have been convinced on TikTok that they have ADHD because they have trouble prioritizing household chores and walk around objects by swooning their hip out of the way will not trust a psychiatrist when they tell them that what they have is not ADHD.
There are tons of communities all over social media where people who have been “denied their diagnosis” gather and circle jerk about how all their life’s problems would be solved if only someone finally wrote “this guy ADHDs” on some piece of paper for them, much to the detriment of real undiagnosed people who go under in this sea of confirmation bias and projection.
There has been an uptick in ADHD TikTok videos over the last year or so. There are a few TikTokers that do basically nothing else. Since the core symptoms of ADHD won’t provide you with content forever, those channels have continuously moved into symptoms that are more and more loosely connected to ADHD and thus more and more present in people who don’t have ADHD.
Now, since medical professionals have been super reluctant to diagnose or treat ADHD for some reason, there is a huge distrust in diagnoses. It’s said that ADHD is both the most underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed psychiatric disorder at the same time.
So people who have been convinced on TikTok that they have ADHD because they have trouble prioritizing household chores and walk around objects by swooning their hip out of the way will not trust a psychiatrist when they tell them that what they have is not ADHD.
There are tons of communities all over social media where people who have been “denied their diagnosis” gather and circle jerk about how all their life’s problems would be solved if only someone finally wrote “this guy ADHDs” on some piece of paper for them, much to the detriment of real undiagnosed people who go under in this sea of confirmation bias and projection.