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Re:Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watchin... by WarOnPrivacy on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:23PM (#28417001)
The notion that little kids can mimic this symptom set with coordinated precision and not look like a bunch of little kids poorly trying to do the same - this seems unrealistic.
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Re:Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watchin... by strogonoff on Saturday September 04, 2021 @01:27PM (#28417047)
Try paying attention to how a teenage person unconsciously mimics small components of the behavior of a parent or a person they (again, possibly unconsciously) consider of importance. Things like a bad habit, such as smoking (including the finer mechanical details of the process); accent/[mis]pronunciations; usage of idiomatic words or phrases; motions when driving a car; etc. tend to look/sound extremely natural.
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Re:Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watchin... by imwillofficial on Sunday September 05, 2021 @12:40AM (#28421684)
The phenomenon known as mirroring is far more subtle than this.
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