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.
Humans are the product of their environment, and the younger you are, the more affected you will be.
If I put you in the rain forest with animals and plants and shamans, you would absolutely start to calm down and start to listen to people and become much calmer with time. Since the entire energy of the place is calm.
But if you sit in front of phones and computers on social media, where you have this constant energy of consuming content you forget a day later, your brain will start to be unable to think and focus after a while. It will feel stressful to listen to someone who talks even, because it’s not fast enough.
You’re talking about the change that can be the result of stress.
That is true, and people so experience those things.
But that’s not what a neurodevelopmental disorder is. They won’t go away by hanging in nature. Hanging in nature may treat it, but doesn’t cure it.
A lot of the stress from being overstimulated shares symptoms and treatment with add ans adhd though so there’s very little practical difference, except that society seems it’s wrong for people who don’t have neurodevelopmental disorders to medicate with anything stronger than three shots of espresso and a few bottles of “doubled caffeine” energy drinks — which is actually far more dangerous physically than just popping a Ritalin.