TikTok should start banning users that fake disorders!!!

This is such a cringe fest and and top of that disrespectful and also harmful to people who really suffer from these disorders.

Not just that, because so many kids and unfortunately also adults fake certain disorders, people who really suffer from it and try to bring awareness to it are also claimed to be faking.

I mean there are tons of people seeking for attention on TikTok, but these bunch of people are highly annoying, especially all the ones who claim to have DID or Tourette and fake having all kinds of alts, they build a whole platform by faking mental disorders …… I don’t wanna start with the cosplayers and yeah for some reason the vast majority is self-diagnosed … must be true then … lol

At this point I do believe that some do have a disorder… it starts with Munch and ends with Hausen and they shouldn’t be on the internet.

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How will they know someone is faking a disorder?

I mean in some cases it's obvious but...

Professionals can detect fakers, for example when certain symptoms don’t match the disorder they claim to have. For example DID is often diagnosed in adulthood and can’t be self-diagnosed cause those who have didn’t know they have it until they got diagnosed with it.

At least the obvious ones should be suspended or banned cause this ain’t funny. Its mocking people who really suffer from certain disorders just for attention. It already has a stigma and these people are adding to it.

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I saw that faking Tourette's is like some kind of TikTok fad like wtf is wrong with people?

Yeah they have a lot of fun doing so and gaining followers. But those who res got tourette don’t think its something fun to have.

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I'm not against self diagnosing, but I do believe that faking disorders, disabilities, mental illnesses etc... is so silly.

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And sometimes I feel like some people wouldn't believe me, if I tell them about my disorder. (I got diagnosed with it by a psychologist, when I was an early teen, and my parents knew there was something different about me, when I was a toddler.)

Self-diagnosing isn’t safe. Cause several disorders have similar symptoms.

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i agree tbh, but tracking down the fakers is a lot easier said than done. i think a large percentage just doesn't pay attention enough to even question it and those who do can't always identify it. in some cases its blatantly obvious and i strongly urge to report tik tokers like that for faking disorders.

There have been TikTokers who went to far with faking and their page was taking down or something. I reported to users who were obviously faking their disorder.

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yeah but then you'll have to make people "prove" they have it and all that, then again I guess it wouldn't be too much to ask since they are publicly displaying their disorder

Exactly.

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It's gross but you can't really ask people for medical records

I think if someone has a whole platform and eventually even making money or a career by faking disorders, I think we can and should ask them for proof when tons of people start to question if your being real.

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I report every fake ADHD one regardless of if they can moderate it or not

It takes one to know one and most of the cringe ones that claim ADHD don't present as ADHD at all.

Its honestly insulting and, hell, probably a lot of the stereotypes I'm fighting are perpetrated by them.

My cousin has ADHD and therefore I know how they behave, most of the tiktoks I saw tried to make it look sexy or tried to romanticize it, like with all the other people faking disorders.

And yeah, many people are exposed to mental health issues or disorders through movies or social media so the stereotypes people like you are facing are because of attention seekers like them.

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Luckily I don't use Tik Tok

just another day of asking myself wtf is wrong with people

mental disorders are like living in hell sometimes yet these people have the audacity to fake it...gross

I actually swore to myself to not create an account. My siblings manage convince me to get an account… now I got exposed to all the nonsense content. Some users are funny I got to admit.