We Need to Talk about TikTok and Tourette’s

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Get EXCLUSIVE content & direct updates from me: https://www.prageru.com/series/unapologetic Not long ago, I started getting tons of videos on my TikTok feed featuring young girls exhibiting what seemed to be involuntary outbursts or “tics” commonly associated with Tourette’s syndrome. I started looking into it and found out Tourette’s—or something like it—seems to be spreading like wildfire among young girls around the world, and the common denominator is TikTok. Do you think TikTok is causing an outbreak of Tourette’s in young girls? Let me know in the comments!

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0:00.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Unapologetic Live. I got to tell you this episode rocked my world doing the research for this and getting ready to talk about this on today's show.
0:09.0	The subject matter for today is TikTok causing an epidemic of Tourette's in young women. Now as we go through the research and we talk about this, we're going to find that it's actually not Tourette's.
0:18.0	It's a condition called functional neurological disorder.
0:22.0	But before we get into anything, I want to show you what I saw that sparked this conversation in my brain and sparked this question for me.
0:30.0	So here's this video compilation we made for you.
0:32.0	I have Tress and Dre.
0:34.0	In this video, I will be reading some of Room on the Brain with Tix.
0:42.0	I've been taking all day.
0:45.0	I'm sorry.
0:59.0	We're around someone who is actively taking...
1:03.0	You!
1:04.0	Come on!
1:05.0	I love you.
1:06.0	You can count on me.
1:08.0	You can count on me.
1:11.0	Oh.
1:12.0	My...
1:14.0	Hey!
1:15.0	Oh my god.
1:16.0	You live like this every day?
1:18.0	You.
1:20.0	I'm here to spread awareness about what I do with...
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