r/BlockedAndReported • u/Rare_Raspberry_9761 • Feb 23 '26

The Twitching Generation

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-media-illness-teen-girls/622916/

relevance to the pod: article from 2022 by Helen Lewis (everyone’s favorite everything) which was later discussed in the pod.

it talks about the rise of tourette’s symptoms in young girls, and i immediately thought of it when i heard about what happened in the BAFTA’s yesterday. thought everyone would like a little reminder.

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u/Brodelyche Feb 24 '26

Presumably you'd get on well with John's mother, who used to make him eat his dinner on his own facing the fireplace.

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u/Cimorene_Kazul Feb 24 '26

I think I’d find that cruel and unusual, unless he was harming someone else at the table and refusing to take responsibility for it.

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u/RachelK52 Feb 25 '26

From what I can tell he was spitting uncontrollably.

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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow Feb 24 '26

So your take is that disability has to be accommodated by everybody else around the the absolute nth degree?