You touched on the key issues.

Of course everyone has some form of adhd, when were watching 15 second tik toks and 30 second commercials filled to the brim with sublimal advertising, thats the entire point, to erode your ability to make decisions (its called decision fatigue) and break your ability to concentrate.

A pill aint going to solve it.

I blame tik tok though, my partner watched a video about adhd and now they keep talking about getting diagnosed, its frustrating as hell. At least they took my advice and they started reading more books lately. One of the best ways to increase your attention span.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9659797/

Our study is the first to show that misleading videos about ADHD are being widely disseminated and viewed on TikTok. These findings are in line with previous studies of TikTok videos that have found high rates of misinformation for medical conditions, including acne and diabetes.

Which coincidentally reading comprehension in schools is at a all time low, gasp who could have ever guessed it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/reading-skills-naep.html

In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see widespread recovery from the learning loss incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Instead, the results, from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, tell a grim tale, especially in reading: The slide in achievement has only continued.

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam’s three-decade history — 33 percent. The percentage of fourth graders at “below basic” was the largest in 20 years, at 40 percent.

We are in for some very rough times ahead :(. Wait till these people become the new police officers/detectives, wcb workers, nurses, doctors, etc.