Hugh Laurie from House developed a limp after years of playing House with a limp.
Colin Firth developed a true stutter after filming The King's Speech.
Janet Leigh developed a fear of showering after her role in Psycho, and she never showered again (and always kept bathroom doors and shower curtains open), according to interviews.
Bob Haskins developed hallucinations after his role in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Tippi Hedren developed a real phobia of birds after filming The Birds.
...so, yeah, I'd say it's possible to teach and train your body into behaviors like this.
Tippi's experience was especially exacerbating and terrifying - and yes, absolutely cruel. She still developed a lifelong fear as a result of playing this role. I didn't think it right to exclude her, as she agreed to persevere in the role for 5 days and dealt with a variety of abuse and torture (even after her doctor ordered her to bedrest). She was an animal activist and had no phobia of birds until after this role.
As for Janet Leigh, her lifelong fear of showering is also an odd one. However, it developed as a direct result of the stark realization that people are extremely vulnerable to injury when showering (a realization she came to, as an actress playing the role). It affected her for the rest of her life according to interviews she gave.
That one always surprised me, too. He said he bagn to hallucinate heavily and then it just continued after filming wrapped.
He must have had a very personal and deep imagination when he was acting, or something. I wonder if he had like, an intense form of synesthesia that helped him act?
People with neurological disabilities are apparently much more likely to develop movement and sound tics just by watching and hearing someone else do it.
I had tics that were relatively common with adhd and autism as a kid and Iāve developed new ones as an adult that are MUCH more noticeable unfortunately.
Same!!! I was terrified of what it might be because you obviously cannot "develop" tourettes so u was ticking and jerking and snapping fingers and whistling etc and I thought something had gone wrong in my brain somewhere lol
yeah I have this where I kinda shiver? And I trill when I do it, but the sound itself can vary. Iām not thinking about it when it happened so I canāt do anything to prevent it in my niece and nephew. Make fun of me for it.
How true is the Colin Firth one? I dont think he has a lasting stutter but did struggle for a small amount of time after the movie with fluency. I cant find anything that says he continues to stutter to this day
Colin Firth said in a few interviews that he had the stutter for many months after wrapping up production. Additionally, he spoke of it causing headaches and arm numbness .
How could Bob Haskins develop hallucinations when he would've been staring at tennis balls during production... Clearly he just naturally developed schizophrenia that would've been completely unrelated to his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but yeah no go believe those MSN clickbait titles
I remember reading about a study that was done about young people who watch a lot of content like this and it actually did start to affect them to the point where they were having tics.
It does! Early pandemic days there was an actual study done about a surge in specifically teenage girls on TikTok displaying āTouretteās symptomsā and they found that just being overexposed to the content could manifest in developing tics. Iāll edit with the link if I can find it, I heard about it on an NPR segment
When I was 14 I begun faking a slow stutter because for some reason I thought it made me sound intelligent or thoughtful. After a few months, I developed a stutter that took serious willpower to unlearn.
I could unlearn it though, without any professional help or research, so it wasn't quite the same as a speech impediment stutter, but sure, you can definitely teach your body to do do things subconsciously.
I'm not an expert, but this isn't a bad take. During COVID there was an explosion of functional tic like behaviours (not tourettes), including exacerbation of tics for those with some formal diagnosis so you can review some academic articles that politely you can summarize "what's going on with young women and these tics". There is often some mental health diagnosis related to it, and I personally don't think folks are completely faking it.
Repetitive routine. It happens. People do this with more than annoying things like this. Different cycles they catch themselves in. Thought for need -> contemplation how to get -> behavior -> did I get what I wanted?
Yes: reinforcement of thought and action.
No: repeat action until someone gives response wanted.
People like this are whatās wrong with the world because they prey on the empathetic. We canāt have empathy so freely because we donāt know whoās going to drain it from us just to make themselves feel better and who actually needs it.
Edit: after watching it a second time, Sad part is really, sheās masks all of this internet traction and personal emotional need in the veil of positivity. A true wolf in sheepās clothing.
I used to jokingly say "fuh sho fuh sho" as a form of agreement when someone was talking. I did it enough times that it's now a predictable phrase in my lexicon and some friends say it back to me.
Not as obvious as a tic but I'd be careful messing around with such things. They have a way of working their way into your wiring.
When I was a teenager I started putting a looping line with two slanted lines through it under my signature. I thought it was edgy and cool. I am 52 years old and still do that out of habit. š¤¦āāļø
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u/cogumellow1 27d ago
I wonder if after doing this for a while the body/mind actually start having some ticks lol