Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor.

Monkey see, monkey do!

I read and score college application essays, and out of the couple hundred I've read so far, I've already had a handful of students claiming to be non-binary. It's the latest thing, doncha know!

They're at that age...

Same with Sudden Onset Gender Dysphoria.

This is an opportunity to introduce and label a new medical/psychological condition! Nervous tics developed as a result of watching too much TikTok will now be known as Tiks, to distinguish them from other types of tics.

IT WAS GOODY CLOYSE WHO HEXED ME!

Women and mass hysteria is a story as old as the hills.

Well, if it keeps them from identifying as “queer”…

They are one of the major sources of Lyme disease.

Alice Ripley is a monster and no one will convince me otherwise!

OP don't link to WTJ without pasting the article here.

What is it about teen girls and their susceptibility to things like this? They're having the same issue with social contagion regarding trans overtaking entire classes of girls.

"beans"

If this was happen from YouTube, would they be developing UTI?

Evie Meg (aka thistrippyhippie) is one of the premier TikTok Tourettes sufferers. This clip is supposedly from a meeting with other similar Tourtettes patients.

Recently, Evie Meg suffered a bout of paralyzed hands for 11 days. This clip shows her mustering through the pain. Not sure if this is Tourettes or some other neurological disorder.

If this was happening on Instagram would they be freaking out about their innie bellybuttons?

My wife's a physician and she and some of her more Internet-savvy colleagues can sometimes identify which illness influencers a teenager follows by how they (theatrically) feign symptoms or the language they use. The parents often look surprised and ask "How did you know?" when privately asked if their kid spends a lot of time on TikTok, Tumblr or Discord.

TicTok

Early onset Fibromyalgia.

Wire hangers to the rescue!

My parents would have beaten my ass way before we made it to a therapist's office.

Meanwhile, Jaedyn the twink is staring zombie-like at his phone or on a video game while his girlfriend Madyson is on the floor faking a seizure.

Social media is a cancer on society and Tiktok is perhaps the worst now. I just dread to think what Gen Z will be like in a couple of decades.

Teen girls are awful.

Insanity is contagious.

R1: what is a sure fire, straightforward way to get a high score from you on a college essay?

I don't like girls.

If this was happening on MySpace would they be at the doctors complaining about the space between their thighs?

TikTokTiks

Are there specific TikTok doctors they need to see?

R1 are they using their non binary specialness as a way to insist they be allowed into the college? Or as an example of the "struggles" they have endured?

"Stupid, Slutty, Street Whores" bleeding all over the place!!

Ah, for the days of Pokemon-induced seizures.

Zoomer girls are so very extra.

Hysteria.

Mostly bio-females, R1?

I suppose it's better than those kids making videos about how they are Holocaust survivors.

There was an error in the title of this thread. It should have read," Teen Girls Are Developing Tits."

R34? The applications are numbered; I don't know the names or genders of the applicants. R29, they just seem to be telling me about themselves as opposed to looking for sympathy, although a couple have mentioned that it's not been easy for them. But a lot of the applicants do that for various reasons completely unrelated to gender or sexuality, some valid, some not. And R24? There is no sure-fire way to get a good score, not from me at least. But it helps if all the grammar, spelling, and punctuation is correct. The essay should be longer than a short paragraph, but it doesn't have to be unduly long. If the applicant uses ridiculous vocabulary, s/he better really understand the words used and all the nuances thereof so I know it wasn't someone just looking up a word in a thesaurus and making a substitution to try to impress me. And a sense of humor helps a lot. By the way, there are many places where students have to write descriptions on the applications, for example, descriptions of their extracurriculars. If that writing sucks and the essay is beautiful, guess what? Yeah, I know you didn't write your own essay. But most students do write their own; I can tell -- because most of the time, the writing is atrocious. If Mommy or Daddy wrote it, or heaven forbid, a student paid to have it written, they should be ashamed of themselves. Hope that helps!

Oh -- I'm R1.

R1/R37, how do you feel about essays without paragraph breaks?

They're very fragile creatures. But is it their fault? After all, their Gen X helicopter mommies and daddies invented child leashes just for them.

Celine Dion has really gotta stop watching those videos.

Is Celine on TikTok?

Is Tourette’s Syndrome what Celine Dion canceled her tour over, R42?

This is dumb.

[quote]Teen Girls Are Developing Tics

Are Teen Boys Developing Tocs?

It’s interesting how China has fucked this country without firing a single bullet. COVID, then trade BS and now TikTok.

Fucking bitch 🤯😬😳😑

Who cares?

tics, tacs, tiktoks

They should be happy it wasn’t named Diktok.

R50 Oh there’s plenty of that, especially now that grey sweat pants season is here. I’m surprised teen boys are inundating doctors offices concerned that there dicks aren’t big enough to swing free in sweats and madras lots of attention.

R20 wins Datalounge for this week. Comment of the Week. That scene belongs in a movie...

Here’s the poster boy for DikTok, I’m surprised teen boys aren’t running to the doctor fearing they are to small.

psychosomatic.

Worthless things, both Tiktok and teen girls.

Imagine if they had called it TitTok

[quote]After all, their Gen X helicopter mommies and daddies invented child leashes just for them.

Child harnesses have been popular in the UK since the 1940s and were most popular in the 1980s, when GenXers were still kids, but that doesn't play into the generational hate trolling you're so committed to.

I don’t understand what R53 is saying. Did I watch the wrong video?

Mass brain rewiring

Dopamine! Our brains are becoming sooo used to being instantly satisfied through this app that it’s literally making our dopamine rise so high

The kind of weak-minded fools who voted for Trump.

Bump

While the tiktok influencers may have tourettes, they are also malingering some of the time. There is secondary gain for them- they get followers and attention. The girls who follow them though appear more like conversion disorder. But yes, we have been seeing this a lot and we tell them to get off tiktok.

Besides tic disorders, social media has made dissociative identity disorder, Ehlers-Danlos and POTS alluring to teen girls (and their nonbinary and FTM counterparts). Seizure disorders, a perennial favorite, don't let you exercise your imagination quite as well since there are ECGs, and annoyed doctors and nurses, there to call you on your bullshit.

Sad as it is, it's an improvement over another hot one in recent years: gastroparesis. Young women would agitate for unnecessary feeding tubes, which is crazy enough, but then the elite crazies would mess with the tubes for more trips to the ER. When infections go south things can escalate quickly, and at least one social media sickfluencer died of resulting complications.

What?

I hope they all die, do we really need such weak people breeding? Perhaps they will begin to jump off roofs or drink poison, it would be a good thing.

R66 I hope they don't jump off of roofs. There may be innocent people below. If the roof faces a river and nothing on between, I'm good.