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“People with ADHD are sharing honest things, like how it can be hard to remember to brush your teeth, or how laundry is nearly impossible to complete with all of the starting and stopping,” she says. They couldn’t before put together that the things they were struggling with were related to ADHD.”Īccording to Donovan, ADHD is finally being normalized thanks to platforms like TikTok or Twitter.

“They tell me that they didn’t know to look up ADHD. Now, her inbox is filled with people telling her that her content inspired them to see a doctor, and that they now have a diagnosis and treatment plan. TikTok, she says, is a perfect place “for people with short attention spans to get concise information.” This inspired her to create her own content, which started with an ADHD comic strip that went viral.

“No one who has ADHD was sharing what their experience was like in an educational way,” she says. Though Donovan was diagnosed and treated for ADHD as a college freshman, she never felt compelled to learn more about it. That said, getting diagnosed can be difficult if you don’t know what to look for.ĭani Donovan is a mental health influencer who makes TikToks about ADHD awareness with millions of views. Many people manage without therapy, medication, or targeted resources, but getting diagnosed can help to establish a better understanding of the particular way the ADHD brain works. “It’s slightly different for everyone and changes as a person grows from being a child, with relatively few coping skills, to adulthood,” she says. €œIn general, when someone has a diagnosis of ADHD, it usually describes a collection of symptoms and life impairments,” psychologist Dr.

The disorder can involve more than an inability to focus often, people who are diagnosed later in life aren’t clued into the possibility that they have it, since symptoms can be unrelated to focus or attention altogether. But the signs of high-functioning ADHD, particularly in adults, don’t always present so straightforwardly. According To Doctors “They couldn’t before put together that the things they were struggling with were related to ADHD.” Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images By Carina Wolff and Kaitlyn WyldeĪ stereotypical description of someone with ADHD might paint them as fidgety, flighty, or easily distracted.