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Interesting parallels to the "epidemic" of Tourettes symptoms among teen girls that exploded over the past 2 years: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-
by at-w 4y ago
Interesting parallels to the "epidemic" of Tourettes symptoms among teen girls that exploded over the past 2 years: https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201 https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-...
As with gender dysphoria, patients flipped from being majority male to overwhelmingly female in just a few years. They also tended to know others with the symptoms either directly, or from social media feeds whose algorithms fed them more and more content around the topic.
- MagicMoonlight 4y ago[flagged]
- ghqst 4y agothis... seems insane. Tourettes is a genuine syndrome that the annoying TikTok and internet culture is causing teenage girls to misdiagnose themselves.
- tpush 4y agoWow, this and your other comments on this thread are disgusting. This whole article's comment section is truly fucking awful.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoAnd ADHD. Could be that there is a lot of it, but I know a few folks self-diagnosing. At least two of them went off meds and are fine, which raises questions if they were truly ADHD in the first place.