Episode 60: The truth about Tourette’s and Tiktok (with Monica Nguyen)

TRANSCRIPT HERE 

Join the enigmatic tiktok star and disability advocate Monica Nguyen as she chats with Steph about all things Tourettes Syndrome in film and TV, on social media, and on those wonderfully nuanced* feature stories on programmes such as 60 Minutes. We get to the bottom of whether Tiktok has created a Tourette’s epidemic, and Mon tells us her own experience with tiktok advocacy, and some helpful and harmful depictions of Tourette’s Syndrome in film.

*sarcasm, A LOT of sarcasm.

CONTENT WARNING: Ableism, discrimination, media bias.

FILMS DISCUSSED:

Motherless Brooklyn (2019) - IMDb

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) - IMDb

The Square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFoQu_94J38

 

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• Tiktok: @meowmons 
• Insta: @ticswithmon 
• Twitter: @meowmons1 
• And check her linktree here: mon1111 | Instagram | Linktree

Watch "Tiktok Tic" 60 minutes story HERE

Watch Mon's episode of Dating Different HERE

 

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REFERENCES:

• Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia – A support network for those with Tourette Syndrome and their families.
• What is Tourette Syndrome? | CDC
• The Girls Who Caught Tourette's from TikTok | Psychology Today Australia
• Rise in tics is caused by a known condition – and its not all due to TikTok
• The complicated truth about TikTok and Tourette’s syndrome | WIRED UK
• TikTok tics are a symptom of a much bigger problem - The Verge
• TikTok Tourette’s: Are We Witnessing a Rise in Functional Tic-Like Behavior Driven by Adolescent Social Media Use? - PMC
• The phenomenology of tics and tic-like behavior in TikTok | medRxiv
• A terrible article: Stop that! It's not Tourette's but a new type of ma