This is very true actually. I’ve always been a fan of shopping/consuming local but one thing I have noticed in the last few years is that big store products cost just about as much as local products these days, but their quality is significantly worse.
A theory I really appreciated that I heard recently was that there’s definitely an uptick in female diagnoses of ADHD because, until fairly recently, doctors didn’t even believe women could have ADHD. So now it’s more out there and there’s an uptick in adult women getting tested and being recognized with a diagnosis.
Along with that, yeah just more awareness in general causes more people to go get tested causing more diagnoses. So I’d say things like tiktok contribute to that but only in that they bring awareness to the symptoms people might’ve not realized were related to ADHD before, not that they cause it.