i had selective mutism all growing up and almost everything out there which is not much is about children this is because many people actually do grow out of it unlike adhd but it upset me because it felt like once you become a teenager youre on your own no one has solutions for you because youre just viewed as sort of a lost cause its very easy to treat in children but the older you get the worse your situation becomes  with adhd i think its the mindset that adhd should be recognized in children but many people have to recognize it in themselves as adults because people didnt pay much attention i think articles like that that are geared towards parents are important but i wish they werent so surface level like if youre child has a hard time focusing or sitting still like why dont they talk about executive dysfunction and emotional dysregulation my brother did get diagnosed as a child but my parents still dont understand it even though theyre the ones that recognized it in the first place and my dad has it too because they just think adhd is not being able to sit still or focus ive honestly learned more about adhd from tiktok than theyve learned at all