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I see this constantly as a social worker. 95% of the time when I see teens with depression, suicidal thoughts, transgender identity, etc. they also spend 90% of their freetime on their phones. I tell parents that the internet is poison for kids & teens
“Transgender is the new emo” I’ve been saying this for years. Thank you!
If TikTok was banned tomorrow, nothing of value would be lost.
I was married to a man who had tourette syndrome and OCD. It was torture for him. If some of these influencers actually had it, they would regret promoting it. It is so sad to see what is going on in our world.
as a 15 year old girl, im so tired of seeing my friends being brainwashed by the internet into thinking theyre things that theyre not
My daughter had breasts early and hated them! She tried to make them look smaller with ace wrap and we talked a lot about how she felt. She felt like dressing masculine sometimes. But it was a phase! In her situation it was. She is grown over 21 and wears dresses and is a woman who is feminine. So one example of just a confused child. God bless you blair! I love how you speak truth it’s so needed today!!
friendly reminder: people isolating you from friends and family, whilst saying things like ‘i love you, i think youre special, i understand you, etc’ are exhibiting cult leader behavior
“The emo kids weren’t having their wrists cut by the adults…” Wonderfully articulate, Blair. A visceral example that pushes right through the noise and compares two very closely related generations. Speaking as someone who was “emo-adjacent” in their youth (grammer “they”; addressing oneself in the past tense)
They tried to push pills on my nephew because of his behavior but my sister just did a lot of research and changed his food diet and he calmed down. All the preservatives and additives in food is messing with alot more than people think.
This scares the fuck out of me. I am a mother to a 3 year old girl. I am so proud of you for making this video. I really am! Thank you! I agree with everything you said! I am 38 years old. When I first became aware of trans I was about 19 years old and it was called “a gender identity crisis”. I had a friend transition from male to female and it took 3 years. That was just to start hormone therapy. After many long sessions with a psychiatrist and a massive family history investigation and a lot of other things. THAT is how you should transition someone. The fact that these children are going into a doctors office and signing up for top surgery so fast should be outlawed. The story of the girl who wanted her breast’s put back made me cry.
Edit. Also I live in Australia and there was a section of a “trans” women who was attacking girls in the toilets at school, so he and I do mean HE, was expelled, sent to a new school and raped a girl in the toilets.
Every time something terrible happens these days, TikTok has a hand in it. I wish it would just go away.
I’m privileged to have grown up without these social media sites. I can’t imagine being a teen in this era.
This is terrifying… and social media’s never going away. How the hell do we come back from this? It’s like it’s too far gone… 😱🥺
I have borderline personality disorder. Was diagnosed almost 20yrs ago. I hate it. It makes my life, my relationships, just hard. It makes me sick that people think having it is like fun or something. It feels like they are making fun of people who actually have it. TikTok should be banned.
I’m a marriage and family therapist, I had a 12 year old client who told me she had to go to the doctor due to tics she had, which she has never mentioned before and I had been seeing her for at least 5 months. After she mentioned it, she started displaying tics in her session. After that, I never saw a tic again. She was always on tic tok.
I think the disassociative identity disorder, make me the most mad. I had a friend who had multiple personalities. Like for real, diagnosed and being treated for, and it was not fun it was not cutsie, it was scary. it was scary for him, it was scary for us it was scary for his family. It was something that he struggled greatly with for very very very long time.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!!! My kid is 10 and we’ve been regularly discussing these issues, especially after “school”. My son was recently convincing himself he was gay, even though he hasn’t shown any sexual interest in boys or girls as of yet, and the school was affiming and encouraging it and giving him special treatment. He’s since changed his mind a few times. He was also worried about his “toxic masculinity” simply because he’s male! He thought it meant all males are toxic. Many of his friends have menal health problems and are identifying in all sorts of strange ways. I feel so bad and scared for the kids right now! They’re so confused and left without real support and guidance. Thanks Blaire for always shining your light in the darkness
It’s weird how nobody ever self diagnoses themselves as Narcissistic
My niece is the ONLY 12 year old girl in her entire grade who doesn’t have ticktock. She begs her parents every day and sometimes my sister feels like giving in because she feels so bad, but I’ve encouraged her to stand firm. Better to feel like a social outcast for a couple years than to come to the conclusion that you need to cut your breasts off at 15.
This one Blaire’s most powerful lectures. I hope she brings this into the main stream by doing guest appearances on big platforms. This fad is so dangerous. Thank you for your bravery, Blaire.
I never thought about the resemblance with our emo era… the thing that shocked me the most is when we were kids all my friends were bi… or questioning their orientation. Why? Because it was trendy and because teenagers are influenced by everything. The members of the bands we liked kissed each other on stage all the time and our friends were all of the sudden gay or bi. Spoiler… almost none of them are now that they are in their 30s. It is definitely our responsibility to make sure that they don’t hurt themselves permanently while they are in that stage of their lives. It’s very sad.
I have a family member who is diagnosed with DID before it got super popular and everyone wanted to have it. I think anyone who has actually met someone with the disorder will know that it’s not quirky or fun or something that should garner attention, that’s why it’s called a disorder. Because it’s a disorder that stems from trauma, the majority of the people that are faking it are the same people love to bask in the victim spotlight knowing damn well that they have had nothing traumatic enough happen to them in childhood that would cause a disorder like that to occur.
I think Blaire really hit the nail on the head with this one, I’ve thought it for awhile, being trans is the new emo. It’s also horrifying how predatory the system is. When I was growing up I was a tomboy, and when I went through puberty I felt a lot of dysphoria. I was SO uncomfortable in my own body and hated the changes. Looking back it’s normal, and we go through it, but now it means you’re trans and should totally make irreversible changes to your body.
My daughter announced last year——in 2nd grade——that she was asexual. Her friend came out as bi so she felt like she needed to know what she was. I was like “you’re not asexual, you’re just 7. Eventually you’ll start liking boys but it’s totally NORMAL to not be there yet.” She thought she needed a label because she sneaks onto TikTok and this crap is everywhere. I’m so flipping mad at this bs.