The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following lecture on Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM (NYC time) on Zoom:
TikTok, Social Media and the ADHD Big Bang w/ Vasileia Karasavva
For good or for ill, the center of the ADHD universe is now the online platform known as TikTok. There, brief videos about ADHD can be accessed by millions of viewers.
TikTok -- and other social-media outlets -- offer support, community, and ideas in flashy and digestible morsels, each pitched to a short attention span.
But pitfalls can include: a spread of misinformation (by one count, less than half of what gets said on TikTok is accurate); a bandwagon effect, with a quick tendency to self-diagnose; and -- perhaps as a result -- an expansion of the ADHD population at a rate that might not be sustainable.
In March, a study of this issue was widely publicized. Its principal author, Vasileia Karasavva, is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia.
There, she is active in UBC's Promoting Equitable, Affirming Relationships Lab.
She is also gearing up for a dissertation that will connect ADHD to an array of virtual concerns. Ms. Karasavva will join us on the 12th.
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