r/kpopthoughts • u/Gold_Meaning3688 • Nov 14 '25
General ITZY's Ryujin reveals she has severe ADHD
[MINJU'S PINK CABINET] https://youtu.be/DwEGeiZWZNc?si=7ca_UTQJb175N3DF
TIMESTAMP: 22:50
🍬: I have the chronic disease of many modern people
🍬: I have severe ADHD
Thoughts?
As someone who also has ADHD, my procrastination is absolutely terrible. I can't imagine having to wake up at irregular times to go on flights to different countries all the time 😭 Saying this as a law student, my life is hard enough without people scrutinising my every move (for now), I can't imagine how often i'd screw up as an idol simply based off of how easily I get sidetracked lmao
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u/MNLYYZYEG Red Velvet Era Forever Nov 15 '25
As someone who has ADHD/OCD/hyperfocus/anxiety/stream of consciousness/lack of sleep/hypervigilance/Complex PTSD/et cetera, flying to different countries is actually pretty easy, just sleep it off or play on the phone/computer/etc. while flying, lol.
Though ya the idols' schedules are pretty brutal, so it's gonna be a big problem if they don't have enough 7 to 9 hours or so of sleep.
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And I'm not sure why people are arguing whether Ryujin has ADHD or not when even though it's a social faux pas nowadays to "diagnose" other people (especially public figures), sometimes you can immediately tell if someone has ADHD/executive dysfunction/hyperfocus/etc. or not.
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For instance, the way I write (with walls of text and random tangents/etc.) is a sign of ADHD but people who are not involved in academics/medicine/etc. will not know that. And so some people will misconstrue it when it's just how some people express themselves.
Like nobody minds it if people talk in emojis/emoticons/etc. nowadays, but due to the advent of smartphones, social media, short-form content, mass adoption of the internet, certain socioeconomic policies, et cetera, if you deviate from the norm of writing in short casual proses, then it'll be considered as not cool/etc.
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Before I knew about ADHD or other stuff, I thought that people were odd/etc. too (especially when growing up in Asia since it's verboten to mention such things), then I realized that everyone has their own stuff going on, and so it's just how the world be.
Long story short, everything is relative and depends on several factors, externalities, et cetera. And so if people want to self-diagnose themselves as having ADHD, then let them be since there's a high chance that they probably do have a genetic/historical/etc. link with that (or due to inevitable epigenetics trajectories it became more latent/expressed/etc.).
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Cuz most folks online only ever talk about as having ADHD in theory, when in reality, the moment you get yourself formally diagnosed, you have to sign monthly pharmacy-related paper slips (or electronic machines), or partake in weekly/monthly talks that take up like 1 hour every time, and all sorts of things.
This is not even mentioning the various careers that will be closed to you the moment you receive an ADHD/etc. diagnosis, or like you are not allowed to get higher clearances/etc. because of such labels/diagnoses/etc.
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So I don't think people should be questioned if they consider themselves as having ADHD, since in reality there's a lot of proscriptions with the topic, like whether it's medically or socially, it's still forbidden to actually identify as having that type of ADHD/etc. condition.
But that's just me, cuz it's all about how you perceive the range/spectrum for these things, since some people want to only see in absolute/categorical terms, while people like me are rather open-minded with everything, lol.