The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Video Content
18 minutes Posted Dec 22, 2025 at 5:00 pm.
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Video is everywhere, but very little of it is designed with ADHD in mind. In this Research Recap, Skye and William Curb from Hacking Your ADHD unpack a qualitative study exploring how people with ADHD actually experience video content. From captions to pacing to visual overload, they look at what helps, what hurts, and why one size never fits all. They also talk about why many ADHD viewers adapt by speeding up videos, multitasking, or using video as background stimulation, and how those habit...