The town that caught tourettes - DPChallenge Forums

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10/26/2012 02:55:58 PM · #1

I don't know how well known this is with you guys but for me its totally new. Just found a documentary about
this town where suddenly a group of teenage girls caught tourettes like symptoms. I never heard or saw something like
it, did you?

The Town That Caught Tourettes

The second link works best, for me at least

Cory

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10/26/2012 03:13:03 PM · #2

Facial twitching, arm flailing, and verbal outbursts.

Sounds like a normal group of high school girls to me. ;)

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10/26/2012 03:23:20 PM · #3

Yeah but on your school people glue vegetables to their faces ;o)

Cory

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10/26/2012 03:40:40 PM · #4

Originally posted by HCvE:

Yeah but on your school people glue vegetables to their faces ;o)

This? This is no school, it's the madhouse!

10/26/2012 04:00:47 PM · #5

What a terrible story and they still know nothing! Poor girls...

10/26/2012 06:25:44 PM · #6

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10/26/2012 06:29:21 PM · #7

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10/26/2012 06:33:59 PM · #8

.good lord this is getting old fast

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10/26/2012 06:34:01 PM · #9

Sorry about the excessive posts, my m****f****in' computer is to blame!

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10/26/2012 06:34:04 PM · #10

Originally posted by Cory:

Facial twitching, arm flailing, and verbal outbursts.

Sounds like a normal group of high school girls to me. ;)

Nahh, in fact the high school boys have it too, only in them it's considered normal.

But you can't *catch* Tourette's, which is not a disease, which the name of the documentary implies. Next time I'm on a high-speed comp I'll watch the doc.

Meantime, wondering if the town's water has been tested for stuff like mercury. The girls could have been exposed to high levels of heavy metals via the water source their whole lives, and it's only developed now into the presenting symptoms.

10/27/2012 07:08:34 AM · #11

From what i've seen all kinds of testing has been done, even a team with Erin Brockovich did extra research. Is that
the Erin from the movie or am I mixing people up here?

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10/27/2012 09:17:40 AM · #12

Yep that would be *the* Erin Brockovich, the lawyer on whom the movie was based. This kind of thing would be right up her alley.

bspurgeon

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10/27/2012 10:51:21 AM · #13

Hmm. I think I'll go with conversion disorder.

10/27/2012 12:07:52 PM · #14

Just watched it. Wow, those poor girls.

10/27/2012 12:21:29 PM · #15

Was just thinking, wasn't there some gov. program where 15 yr old girls all got injected with something against some virus which manifested itself in sexually active women? Or was that only in Europe? If so, it could have something to do with that. What else can it be?