Devorah Heitner

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2,393 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2018 last heard 17 Oct

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 313a: Dr. Devorah Heitner on Online Safety and Internet “Rabbit Holes” and Neurodivergent Kids · 17 Oct 2025 podcast

Like I've been kind of as someone who researches this stuff been like waiting for the data.

So okay, TikTok is a big place.

And again, tick when when we talk about TikTok, like you could be on book talk lear learning about YA novels, you could be on TikTok learning how to do your hair or how to clean your kitchen.

You could also be on TikTok talking about mental health.

You could also be on TikTok talking about all kinds of political issues, right?

There's a huge range.

And for everything that's perilous or concerning to us, there's something that's positive, right?

So like for all we might worry about xenophobic TikTok, there's also anti-racist TikTok.

For all we might worry about problematic gender messaging or like pro-child abuse TikTok, like parenting advice that's about hitting kids or something really damaging and problematic.

And there are those influencers on TikTok.

There's also incredibly positive parenting advice and thoughtful stuff, like our mutual friend Ned Johnson, who's out there explaining really cool brain science on TikTok and helping adults and young people with ADHD.

PhD, understand themselves, and all kinds of stuff.

That's the thing about these spaces.

So TikTok is a big place though, like 67%, I think is what the Pew study said.

I'd have to look at it.

sixty seven percent of teenagers are using TikTok.

So it's a big number and it's the biggest.

And then YouTube is also huge and YouTube tends to be even younger because a lot of parents maybe don't allow kids on

TikTok, but even schools will send your elementary schooler home with a YouTube video about how to do a science thing, and then before you know it, they're researching everything else.

So many kids are on YouTube from toddler years on, and YouTube often will someone will connect to another space.

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