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Do you think increasing ADHD diagnosis are due to better detection or "tiktok"? (lemmy.world)

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I see a lot of people blaming tiktok and "brain rot" content for the increasing ADHD diagnoses, but I think its a matter of better detection, similar to how OCD and autism diagnosis have increased too.

Also as someone with ADHD, it feels like shit that it could be "my fault" or that I have brainrot.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

two more possibilities:

a systematic change in environment
or systematic change diets of pregnant mothers or young children

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You forgot the /s.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Easy diagnosis. Take speed. Calms you down? ADHD. Speeds you up? No ADHD.

My best friend is ADHD. Dated a long-time friend that was ADHD. My daughter is ADHD.

Give 'em speed, they chill. Give me speed, I bounce off the walls. Many of the same symptoms.

I see tons of young people online, "I want to be special. I have ADHD! Also, I'm trans and gay!"

STFU. You're young, wildly horny and figuring life out. We all went through that.

"But I'm SPECIAL!!!"

No, odds are you aren't. Stop taking away from people who actually have these conditions/problems/lives.

"OK. But I'm OCD!"

Jesus. STFU.

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