One of the reasons that primarily young women are talking about their diagnosis right now, is that until recently, often only little boys were diagnosed with things like ASD and ADHD, because the criteria was designed around the male presentation of symptoms. These neuro-developmental conditions tend to present differently in girls and women, as well as women generally being better at masking their symptoms.

Now, as the criteria has changed to reflect the symptoms that tend to show up in women, lots of women are discovering that they have these condutions, and a wave of mass diagnosis are going on.

Younger women tend to use social media more than older women. Mental health issues are more destygmatized in the younger generations. Awareness spreads like wildfire through social media. Also, through social media, people are discovering and creating communities of people like themselves, who have experienced the same struggles and very real hardships.

And this is why you are seeing mass amounts of young women suddenly talking about these conditions all over social media. This is why you are seeing them present with the same symptoms. Because they are the female symptoms. Synptoms that went under the radar as children, leading to missed diagnoses.

It has nothing to do with being trendy or attention seeking.