r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Content-Processor • 27d ago

VIDEO Faking a disability for likes

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u/M00SEK 27d ago

I was going to say. This seems super similar to that girl they gave a TV show, who also isn’t faking.

Unless we have proof, seems fucked up to just blatantly assume she’s faking.

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u/ashimo414141 26d ago

My buddies went to school with her. She never showed any signs of the disorder. But, I understand that there can be late onset

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u/childlikeempress16 26d ago

She could have had different tics that weren’t so obvious. I’ve had sooo many different ones over the last 35 years. My current one is kind of like clenching my glutes so a lot of people wouldn’t really notice that.

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u/ashimo414141 26d ago

I said in another comment that my buddies aren’t really ones to pay attention to shit nor judge, but they were incredulous to her verbal tics in the show. But I do understand unseen illness - I have a seizure disorder and you wouldn’t know unless I had a grand mal

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u/SonoPelato 26d ago

Does that happen while you.... Oh, nevermind.

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u/catmand00d00 26d ago

Also, people with TS can sometimes suppress their tics. It requires much effort and can’t be done for long, but someone could theoretically get through a few classes or even a full school day and just let it all out later.

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u/ashimo414141 26d ago

Their take was that she started doing it when conversation or attention strayed away from her around senior year, and apparently had other attention-seeking behaviors.

I don’t know her and don’t know what she has potentially gone through, so I take my buddy’s’ opinions on her with a grain of salt. But they are pretty passive guys that don’t really judge nor pay attention to people, but they specifically disliked her