Think you have ADHD? Here's why so many of us are saying yes.

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Have you seen ADHD content pop up in your feeds? Are you getting a lot of it? In the past few years, there's been a surge in the number of adults diagnosed with ADHD, and at the same time more and more people online are going viral with "signs" that you might have it too. Whether with our doctors or friends, we're all talking a lot more about adult ADHD. Is this a perfect storm of online content leading to more diagnoses? Or is there more to the story?

Brittany is joined by culture journalist Kelli Maria Korducki, who wrote about this for The Guardian, and Manvir Singh, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis, to get into it.

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0:00.0	This message comes from the Kresge Foundation.
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0:10.0	A century of impact, a future of opportunity.
0:13.1	More at Kresge.org.
0:17.8	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:23.7	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:34.9	All right, y'all, this week we are connecting the dots between TikTok, a neurological diagnosis, and that food molding in the back of your fridge.
0:44.6	Don't think these things are connected?
0:46.9	Well, Kelly, Monveer, and I are here to prove it to you.
0:50.0	Kelly Maria Corducchi is a culture journalist, and Monvere Singh is a professor of anthropology at UC Davis.
0:56.2	Kelly, Monvier, welcome to It's Been a Minute.
0:58.2	Thank you.
0:59.0	Yeah, thank you so much for having us.
1:00.8	I am so thrilled to have you both here.
1:02.7	So to set the scene, let me share some videos that have been popping up on my social feed lately.
1:10.7	Rarely specific signs of ADHD.
1:13.6	Your bladder is trash.
1:15.6	You can learn a new skill in record time.
1:17.9	It will take me two weeks to pick my clothes off off the floor.
1:20.5	You can remember really weird, minute details from the past.
1:23.8	I can't remember why I've walked into a room.
1:27.0	These are all from the hashtag ADHD.
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