Research Recap with Skye: TikTok and ADHD - Sorting Facts from Misinformation
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.8 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
Today, I’m joined by Skye Waterson for our Research Recap series, where we take a look at a single research paper—what it says, how it was conducted, and what practical takeaways we can find.
In this episode, we’re discussing a 2022 paper titled “TikTok and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Media Content Quality.” It got quite a bit of coverage when it came out, and I thought it’d be good to revisit it—not because TikTok is back in the news, but because it raises some interesting questions about ADHD information online.
Before we get started, I’d love to hear what you think of the Research Recap series. If you have feedback or a paper you’d like us to cover, head to hackingyouradhd.com/contact. New Research Recap episodes come out every other Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, |
| 0:09.8 | I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. |
| 0:14.3 | And today I'm joined by Sky Waterston for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look |
| 0:19.8 | at a single research paper, and we dive into |
| 0:21.8 | what the paper says, how it's conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways. In this episode, |
| 0:26.5 | we're going to be discussing a paper called TikTok an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, |
| 0:30.9 | a cross-sectional study of social media content quality. So this was a paper from 2022 and got quite a bit of coverage at the time, |
| 0:39.4 | but it was one I wanted to look at it again. Not because TikTok's been in the news, I just realized |
| 0:45.0 | that while I was writing up my notes here that TikTok is having its U.S. ownership change. That's |
| 0:50.6 | not what we're going over today. This is just about this 2022 paper. |
| 0:55.5 | Also, before we get started, I just wanted to mention that I'd love to hear what you guys |
| 0:59.6 | think of the research recap series. |
| 1:01.5 | So if you have thoughts, head on over to hacking your ADHD.com slash contact and let us know |
| 1:05.8 | what you think. |
| 1:06.5 | Also, if there's a particular paper or topic that you'd love for us to go over, please let us know. |
| 1:11.7 | New episodes of Research Recap come out every other Friday. |
| 1:14.7 | All right. |
| 1:15.5 | With that, let's get into it. |
| 1:17.7 | So, Sky, tell me what you know about TikTok. |
| 1:21.3 | Yes, I think this is a good start. |
| 1:23.4 | So I had TikTok a few years ago, and quite frankly, I didn't love the, like, the channels that took me down. |
| 1:31.6 | It was like, ooh, you must want more of this. |
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