News · moment 11 of 23
Teen Girls, TikTok, and Tourette's-like Tics
from #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show · #274
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Tim discusses a news story about teen girls developing tic disorders possibly linked to TikTok, riffing on his own real motor tics, and expanding into a bit about modern 'mild homosexuality' now meaning dyed hair rather than sex acts.
- Teen girls showing up to doctors with tics that experts think anxiety, depression, and TikTok could be causing.
- Tourette syndrome is a genetic nervous system disorder causing repetitive involuntary movements or sounds, mostly impacting boys but also women.
- Women's tics appear to be exacerbated by content they're watching on TikTok.
- Kids want to fit in and join a community, so they adopt tics as part of the initiation to belong to the Tourette's community online.
- TikTok is full of Tourette's cooking and alphabet challenges where people scream slurs while cooking.
- Tim claims he has mild homosexuality and compares it to the modern version of being gay, which he says has shifted from sexual acts to dyeing your hair.
- Being queer now means rejecting the gender binary and claiming pansexuality while having blue hair and only having sex with your boyfriend.
- Kids show doctors TikTok content of people with Tourette's cooking and doing alphabet challenges.
- If social media is giving you Tourette syndrome, isn't it time to take a break.
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