The mysterious case of ‘the TikTok tics’
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Tourette Syndrome
The videos on TikTok were created by teenagers with Dret syndrome and then watched by lots of kids during the pandemic who I guess empathized. They in turn developed these Tourette like symptoms. There's this element of intimacy there that I think Aiden described as very sort of alluring because it feels like you're connecting to someone who is sharing something with you that would otherwise kind of cause shame. It's one of the questions that the clinicians have been left with now that the wave has sort of died down - why were some kids so susceptible, so sensitive to what they watched?
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