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Re:Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watchin... by joe_the_user on Saturday September 04, 2021 @06:41PM (#28420040)
The phenomenon I find most baffling is the insistence that we not be concerned, in any way, about that percentage of apparent cases where the person is faking a condition / system / syndrome.

I don't know who you're talking to or what exactly you're referring to. If you read the article, phenomena is neither "faking it" nor is it "really Tourettes syndrome". IE, mass sociogenic illness is not "fake" but a result of humans being social organisms.

Edit: And no one in the discussion I can see is expressing unconcern.

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Re:Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watchin... by klik99 on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:19PM (#28420284)
This is like how people conflate psychosomatic effects as somehow ‘fake’, which they certainly aren’t. Your brain controls a lot and can cause a lot of very real not fake damage.
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