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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by shagie on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:33PM (#28305189)
There's a subreddit that's about these - https://www.reddit.com/r/fakedisordercringe/

There's also a post on there linking to this paper - https://www.reddit.com/r/fakedisordercringe/comments/pb7p02/...

The attention seeking from having a disorder is fairly prevalent.

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Re:It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic ill... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @02:50PM (#28305402)
I think this is partly from attention seeking, and partly from society assigning de facto virtue to the disadvantaged.
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