Roughly 30 teens referred to Rush University Medical Center in the past year displayed a range of involuntary actions, from jerking arm movements to curse words to head and neck twitches. Self-injurious behavior was common, according to some doctors, with many patients displaying bruises and abrasions resulting from their tics. Caroline Olvera, a movement-disorders fellow, noticed that numerous teens were saying the word “beans,” often in a British accent. Even patients who didn’t speak English were saying it. Some patients mentioned they had seen TikTok videos of others with tics.
:blocky-wat: :bean-think:
https://archive.md/DwOhP
Found it from :trueanon:
It's free and it doesn't hurt anyone, which is more than you can say for most afterschool activities.
didn't 30 kids have to go to hospital and then presumably have the most embarrassing story ever told by their parents 20 years from now
tbh, too much screen time for impressionable kids is a parenting failure
yes and no parents often have to work long hours and it's also not great to constantly be monitoring your kids. Also we're talking about teenagers they should be able to be left unsupervised and not be rushed to the hospital.
It's really easy to just call things a parenting failure while ignoring that parenting without failure is essentially impossible
You're right. There was no way my dad could have monitored my computer usage.
if you take away a teenagers computer they devote all the time they were spending on the computer to getting it back.
There's not much of a reason to take away a computer, so much school work is done on computers nowadays.
that's just as well because it's really bloody difficult to do in the first place
Just like last time this happened when the woot dis falling apart around you and your dear and stress are too much this shit happens.
There’s a lot of famous events of mass hysteria. They usually happen in and during traumatic times of transition or instability in the area it happens. Like the dancing plague happened during a severe famine in Europe and the Tanganyika laughter epidemic happened just after they received independence.
And the companies know it better than anyone. It's the tobacco industry of the 21st century.
Heinz baked beans. It's an absurdly appropriate emoji:
- ✅ Beans
- ✅ British
- ✅ Psychology (thonk)
Heinz is an American company. Do they really not sell baked beans in the states?
Try making a small batch of slow cooker/dutch oven Boston baked beans. It's parboiled navy beans cooked with molasses and bacon, usually some diced onions and black pepper. It's less runny than canned beans and has a deep smoky-sweet flavor where the molasses is nowhere near as sweet as brown sugar.
Bush's and Heinz make a low sugar variety now that is almost indistinguishable from the normal Heinz Beanz brand sold in the UK.
Not gonna defend shitty canned beans here but I will absolutely defend sweet beans, specifically Boston style baked beans. They're piss easy to make if you have a slow cooker or oven-safe pot like a Dutch oven, and molasses is way less sweet than brown sugar.
For some reason their baked beans originate in the UK even though the company is American.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Baked_Beans
"In 1886, Heinz Baked Beans were first sold at the Fortnum & Mason department store in London."
Mr Ambassor, with these baked beans you are spoiling us.
I wish my lawn was Emo Phillips so I could walk up to it and say, "Emo, why are you a lawn?"
I wish my lawn was emo so it would listen to American Football with me
I keep picturing Mr. Bean in a doctor's office giving his name in response to every medical question asked of him.
I am 100% projecting, but I feel autistic people have an outsized susceptibility towards repetitive thoughts and actions. Could that be some contributing factor? Maybe we'll learn more about it later, this is definitely something deserving of more broad, multidisciplinary attention if even half of these claims are founded.
Also, highly disturbing that kids are getting the impression that their individuality can only be expressed and accepted via disability or pathology.
I get words stuck in my head and sometimes saying them out loud as a stim feels good so you might be onto something
Also, highly disturbing that kids are getting the impression that their individuality can only be expressed and accepted via disability or pathology.
This has been a thing since at least the Salem witch trials. I know someone who studies this kind of neurological pathology where people are subconsciously faking neurological illness for attention (like making themselves "seize" after a neighbor had a real seizure or something) and it's not as rare as you'd think
exclusionary based on sexuality, it was up for like 30s and got nuked before I could even report
The Foundation are gonna amnesticise Hexbear and make us all think we had another struggle session instead of reading about this
we could have a struggle session about this and save them the trouble
