Living with ADHD often means knowing what you should do – use a planner, stick to a routine – but struggling to actually do it. As ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley famously said, ADHD “is not about knowing what to do, but about doing what one knows,” essentially a kind of “blindness to the future.”
Older adolescents demonstrate a greater ability to mistrust online sources containing semantic inaccuracies compared to younger adolescents. The ability to detect errors in online content directly correlates with adolescents’ selective trust decisions.
Adults with ADHD show significantly higher impulsive buying tendencies and a lower ability to defer gratification compared to individuals without ADHD.
A 2024 study found that adults with ADHD had more difficulty delaying gratification and showed more impulsive buying behaviors than adults without ADHD. In fact, the tendency to seek instant rewards was so strong that it explained a lot of the impulsive spending in ADHD.
Camouflaging mediates the relationship between school belonging and anxiety among autistic students. Most autistic students reported not feeling they belonged at school and could not be their true selves.
For autistic individuals, people-pleasing is frequently tied to masking – suppressing or hiding one’s natural autistic behaviors to fit in. Being excessively “nice” or agreeable can become a mask in itself.
Autistic children with older typically developing (TD) siblings showed significantly better social functioning than those with no siblings. Autistic children with older autistic siblings demonstrated an “intermediate” level of social functioning—better than those with no siblings, but not significantly different.
ADHD, autism, and OCD are three distinct conditions that often share overlapping traits. This overlap raises a growing question in psychology: should these diagnoses be seen as part of a broader neurodivergent spectrum?
Imagine your mind is like a web browser with dozens of tabs open, all playing videos or music at the same time. For many people with ADHD, this is what everyday thinking feels like. This constant mental chatter—often described as racing thoughts—can make it hard to focus, relax, or even sleep.
Higher parental intrusiveness and lower autonomy support correlate with increased generalized anxiety symptoms among adolescents at both family and individual levels.